Both the book and film are set in Los Angeles and tell a story of a homeless paranoid schizophrenic named Nathaniel Ayers. Throughout the film The Soloist directed by Joe Wright, it explains what happened to Nathaniel and his love for music; some of those events happen in the book; The Soloist by Steve Lopez. Nathaniel loves music but has a mental illness, while Mr. Lopez is a columnist for LA Times. While both the book and the film tell the same story, it is the book that is far more effective because it gave more characterization and detailed plot.
In the book Nathaniel was a student at Julliard, he played double bass. “I was there for a couple of years (..) Oh I didn’t play the violin, I played double bass” (Lopez 38). Nathaniel lives and plays on the streets with his two string violin. As well as in the film he went to Julliard and played double bass. Nathaniel plays his violin in front of a statue. Although in the film Nathaniel is dressed too clean to be a homeless person, they make him look like he is a psycho and people should stay away from schizophrenics. Mr. Lopez character in the film is a jerk towards Nathaniel. It seems that he does not want a friendship with Nathaniel; he just wants to help him with his music and his mental illness. “I only needed to know our friendship still meant something to” (Lopez 264). Whereas in the book Mr. Lopez is a friendly and he cares about his friendship with Nathaniel.
The book follows the plot whereas in the film they miss key events in Nathaniel’s and Steve Lopez life. In the book Mr. Lopez is a husband and has a daughter named Caroline “(..) While trying to be a columnist, husband and father (Lopez 95). The film begins with Steve Lopez falling off his an...
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...cific scene in the film may have people to view schizophrenics as crazy and they cannot control themselves. Without reading the book the film will probably be difficult to understand. The film does not include or go into detail in the major incidents that happened in the book.
Nathaniel and Steve Lopez live in two completely different worlds. Mr. Lopez believed he will only be writing a column about Nathaniel and he would be done; he did not believe he would gain a new friend. Mr. Lopez reaches out to Nathaniel to try and seek help for him, but he learns he will not get better and all he can offer him is his friendship. The film does miss a couple of important scenes that were in the book. The film carried way too long and the scenes were a bit all over the place. I would recommend the book because it has better details than the film and stays true to the plot.
I think that most of the event in the movie were not in the same order that Jeannette had wrote them. After reading the book I had a different picture in mind of how each character would look and it threw me off for the rest of the movie. I did like the fact that I could see what was happening and not just imagine things in my head that I thought was happening, as I was watching the movie I was seeing the same thing everyone else was and not just what I was picturing while reading the
One of the main differences between the book and movies are how Penn and Krakauer interpret Chris McCandless and his story. In the book the story seems to focus more around examining and understanding Chris and his life, whereas the movie shows his life as more of an
...t were much more dramatized in the name of Hollywood. For the sake of it being a horror movie, it did have some very gruesome and disturbing images of fear and death.. I did like that this movie showed the dark, scary, and disturbing world of schizophrenia. It shows that things don’t always work out for the best all of the time. Schizophrenia is a horrible disorder because it slowly deteriorates mental functioning. People with this disorder do loose everything they have and must face a very scary world alone. There can be times were they have violent rages and things almost seem as a horror movie. I felt that this film did have some relevance to this disorder and depicted the dark side very accurately. Although some parts of the film were exaggerated I feel that overall there was validity in portraying the world of a terrorized schizophrenic. Hopefully is the future there will be more films that share a more accurate side of schizophrenia on a day to day bases. I feel that the public should be more educated on this disorder because it does affect a lot of our population. Society as a whole has a responsibility in educating themselves in order to improve the care we give to others.
First of all in the beginning of the movie it has Maniac Magee at his parent’s funeral and he runs away straight to Two Mills. In the book Maniac is with his relatives and he can’t stand the fighting between his aunt and his uncle so he runs to Two-Mills. I like this part of the book better because I think the situation of why he runs away is more interesting. Another set of plot events in the book that are different are the three plot events that Maniac goes through when he first comes to Two-Mills. In the movie the same three plot events that are at the beginning of the book are distributed all throughout the movie. I like this about the book better because when the movie puts the three plot events in there are terrible
As I read the novel, I couldn’t help but to compare each word to the movie. I may have just recently watched it, but I was suddenly unsure of what I had seen. Was my memory failing me or were things truly that different? I felt like these differences changed the entire story line. The narrator shouldn’t be in a building that was about to be destroyed, this defeated the purpose of Project Mayhem. Then again, I was only on page one.
For example, Mama goes to the bank in the movie and is given a hard time about paying her mortgage, but this did not happen in the book. Another major difference is that the school bus scene, where the Logan kids played a trick on the white kids, was not shown in the movie, even though it was an important part of the story. There are some character changes as well. Lillian Jean, Jeremy, R.W, and Melvin are Simms’ in the book, but in the movie they are Kaleb Wallace’s children. However, the main plot difference is how the movie starts in the middle, summarizing everything from the first part of the book very briefly. Additionally, many scenes are switched around and placed out of order. Altogether, the plot and character changes contribute to my unfavorable impression of the
The movie is, most likely, done well enough to intrigue its intended audience. It captured the theme and story line of the book. It falls short, though, when compared to the beautiful, sensitive and contemplative prose of Natalie Babbitt. One could only hope that a viewing of the film will lead the watcher to try the book and be delighted all the more.
In both the novel and movie focus on the war. The war influences the characters to enroll.Also, the main setting is at the Devon School. However, in the novel Gene visits Leper at his house but in the movie Leper lives in the woods.In the novel Gene is coming back to the Devon School 15 years later.However, in the book he is coming to Devon as a new student.Therefore, similarities and differences exist in time and setting in the novel and the movie.In the novel and the movie there are similarities and differences in events, character, and time and setting.
The film is a fairly faithful adaptation of the book. The amateurish style of the book gives it some appeal as a more sleek and sophisticated style wouldn’t evoke a sense of angst’ desperation and confusion that the novel does.
The book focuses on the importance of family and friendship. In the movie, segregation and racism are more emphasized. To emphasize segregation and racism, the movie adds characters ( the cousins) and some scenes. In the book segregation is mentioned about three times, once when Momma and Dad are talking (page 5), when Kenny talks about seeing pictures of white people yelling at little African American kids (page 122) and during the bombing (pages 183-190). Joey for example is less whiney and persistent; she does not tattle as much.
...rtrayed differently in the movie. Lennie is shown as being very mentally challenged, whereas in the book he is just a little slow and has a mind of a young child. Although some changes are made in the movie to make it flow better, it is still based on the same story as the book. The movie has the same plot line and characters, and some of the scenes are told in the exact same way as they are in the novel. As well, the movie and the book give out the same themes. This story is about how all the people in the Great Depression were trying to escape their unhappy, lonely lives, but weren’t capable of doing so. The movie stays very true to the book even though some things are removed or added. Everything that is added or changed still works very well and captures the film perfectly.
...the predominant theme of disorientation and lack of understanding throughout the film. The audience is never clear of if the scene happening is authentic or if there is a false reality.
Since both the movie and the book focus on that one line, they are both more similar than different.
The book, "Being There," is about a man named Chance, who is forced to move out of the house he lived in his whole life and his experience in the outside world. Based on the success of the book, the movie, "Being There," was made. The author of the book, Jerzy Kosinski, also wrote the screenplay for the movie. I think the major difference between the book and the movie is that in the book, we get to read what Chance is feeling and thinking, but in the movie, we only get to see his actions.
Of course, the main storyline is the same. It’s the story of a man who is bored with life and has a severe case of insomnia. The he meets Tyler. Tyler changes the Narrator life. Tyler makes the Narrator see how materialistic the world really is. They start an underground Fight Club in which men can take out their aggression. The To get the full experience and really appreciate the whole story, you need to see it from both points.