Hound Of The Baskervilles Comparison

How many ideas can conspired simply over scattered lines, spots, and marks? There is a crowd swarmed around the newest framed abstract piece in a local art museum. They are admiring the exact same shapes, colored lines, and brush strokes on the canvas, however, everybody’s interpretation is different, based on their personal background and experiences. David Attwood’s film adaptation is very similar to Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles, but due to the choices Attwood made, there are distinct details that differ from the novel. There are key differences between the novel and the film adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles because there were two different perspectives on the same story, from two different time periods, affecting

He also included extra characters that would make the story more enticing and suspenseful or changed the characters’ personalities. In the 2002 BBC film adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles, Laura Lyons, Mr. Frankland, and Cartwright were not included as characters. Instead, Attwood added Dr. Mortimer’s wife as a spirit spirit-obsessed character who tries to contact the spirit of Sir Charles Baskerville. David Attwood made this decision from the fear that the movie would extend the use of unimportant details, leaving the audience bored with the movie. However, he added Dr. Mortimer’s wife to add emphasis on the idea of the legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles to keep the audience constantly intrigued. Additionally, Stapleton and Dr. Mortimer swap personalities because in the film Stapleton says, “I covet your skull,” whereas in the novel that is Dr. Mortimer’s line, for the additional suspicion upon Stapleton (Attwood). Nevertheless, in the novel, Laura Lyons, Mr. Frankland, and Cartwright are included as characters to expand on the amount of details provided for the case. They are also included to draw out suspense and to connect all of the details together. For example, “Frankland clapped his eye to it and gave a cry of satisfaction. ‘Quick, Dr. Watson, quick, before he passes over the hill!’ There he

In the film, Sir Henry gets violently attacked and hurt by the Hound of the Baskervilles, most likely for dramatic effect. Also in the movie, Beryl is hung by Stapleton for an increase in dramatic effect. In the ending scenes, there is a final battle between the dynamic duo of Holmes and Watson against the antagonist, Stapleton, as an additional piece of drama in the film. This is shown when Watson gets shot by Stapleton and Holmes is put in a near death situation with Stapleton’s gun aimed directly at him as he drowns in quicksand in the Grimpen Mire. Luckily, Watson shoots Stapleton before Holmes is shot (Attwood). Even though in the novel, the resolution of the case was far less dramatic in the novel because there is no ending fight scene with the protagonist and the antagonist and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle let his characters live to tell the dreadful stories of the past. Sir Henry is not terribly injured by the hound because he can easily speak to Holmes and Watson, unlike where he can’t move in the film. “Sir Henry lay insensible where he had fallen. We tore away his collar, and Holmes breathed a prayer of gratitude when we saw that there was no sign of a wound and that the rescue had been in time,” (Doyle 221-222). Likewise, Beryl Stapleton was not killed by Stapleton, only tied and muffled,