Minority report Compare and contrast essay

Imagine a country with no murder crimes based on “non-human” life form that can see the future based on different murders. This process of stopping murderers is created in a short story named Minority report and then is later created into a film. The short story and the film are based on the same plot and the same ideas but still have some interesting changes throughout the whole story.

When making a short story into a film there are going to be it’s differences but mainly it has to have its significant similarities to show that it still has the same plot. The first way that the short story and the film are the same is the precogs. The precogs in both the film and short story act in the same way of “[giving] their prophecies” and helping precrime do their work. This idea in the short story was integral to the film because without the precogs there would be no Precrime which is the main idea of Minority Report. Another similarity between the film and the short story is that the main character has the same name. In both stories the main characters name is “John Anderton” (71). This is integral to the story to keep this in the film because if Steven Spielberg decided to change the main characters name it might have confused the audience and made the story harder to understand. The last similarity is that in both stories John Anderton is framed for a murder that he is not going to commit. When John is in his office his name appears for him “accused future murderer[,] Precrime Commissioner John A. Anderton was going to kill a man” (75). During the movie his name appears to and sees that he is going to kill a man and discovers that it is possible to plant a card/wooden ball into the machinery and be framed. This was also integral to th...

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... is the founder he says “I merely wanted to get things straight” and Witwer agrees with “you’re the boss. What you say goes” (72). In the film Danny Witwer comes into the John’s room telling him that he is the boss and he will be making the rules around the building. This difference was beneficial to the film because it gives the movie a more interesting twist.

To conclude comparing/contrasting the short story to the film is that there were many changes between these two. The main ideas of the short story and the film are the same but the little changes from the short story to the film are much better and make it more interesting to watch. Overall they were both cliffhangers and had many twists and turns but to finish it off the film was better with the changes.

Works Cited

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/minority-report-philip-k-dick/1101869198?ean=9780375421877