Similarities Between The Hound Of The Baskervilles Book And Movie

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A novel based off of a 19th century mass murderer and a movie with a 21st century twist. The book written in 1901 was about the mass murderer Jack the Ripper. The movie was a 21st century remake of the novel. The novel The Hound of the Baskervilles written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the movie The Hound of the Baskervilles directed by David Attwood are comparable in three aspects. The characters in the movie and the book, the scenes, and the plot structure have many similarities and differences.

First, the characters in the book are very different then in the movie. Cartwright, a main character in the novel was not mentioned in the movie. Cartwright helped Holmes, but is spotted, which was a very important part of the discovery of Holmes on the moor (Doyle, 173). In the movie, Dr. Watson never spotted Holmes on the moor, but did see Cartwright on a hill on the moor, which prompted him to search for Holmes. Another character that was in the book but was not present in the movie was the character, Frankland. He was also important in the discovery of Sherlock Holmes on the moor.

In the movie, the main characters are, for the most part, the same, with the same mystery and the same climax, but the way the plot panned out is very different. In the resolution of the movie, the killer, Mr. Stapleton died from drowning in the Grimpen Mire on the moor (228-229), but the movie panned out very differently. In the movie, Stapleton and Sherlock get into a fight then Sherlock falls in the muck. As Stapleton is about to shoot Sherlock, Watson saves the day. Watson shot Stapleton in the movie which was the resolution, but this did not happen in the novel. The ending of the novel takes up multiple chapters, but the movie has only a few minutes. The directors, because of this, came to the idea that the movie should end quicker but in a more action packed