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Mrs. George
Film and Literature
25 April, 2017
The Longest Ride Nicholas Sparks, an author everyone knows, created another masterpiece in 2013, with his novel, The Longest Ride. As many of his books are, The Longest Ride developed into a movie, directed by George Tillman Jr. Throughout the movie, viewers can see how individual characters develop and how their inter tangled relationships develop as well. With the help of the movie, viewers can also see the emotions shown easier than reading the book. While the movie does well and keeps attention of viewers, I feel that the book has shows the storyline better and prefer it to the movie. The book The Longest Ride is a remarkable work, in my opinion, conveying each relationship
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In the book The Longest Ride, Ira has suffered an accident on the way to Black Mountain University, during which he has begun to freeze and his injuries have become fatal. In the process of dying he thinks about the letter he had written to Ruth for their anniversary this year. As he drifts in and out of consciousness, Ruth comes to him in a vision and reminds him of all of the other letters he has written over the years, as well as the important moments in their lives. Ira flashes back to their time together, as Ruth sits beside him. He reflects on each individual letter he has written to Ruth, and each of the moments they shared that correlated with the letters. Sparks, in the book, expertly crafts each letter written by Ira to Ruth, helping readers learn each important part of their relationship. Although the movie does show viewers each piece of Ira and Ruth’s relationship Sparks writes about in the book, the method in which the director does it varies from the book. In the movie, Luke and Sophia find Ira after their first date. As she visits Ira each day in the hospital, she reads each letter to him, allowing viewers to see each flashback. This strategy created by Tillman does reveal and allow viewers to see Ira and Ruth’s relationship. Some people may think that seeing the flashbacks on the screen is more powerful; however, I think it is more powerful to read the story and personally visualize each event or fight Ruth and Ira have rather than seeing how everyone else sees it. Despite my preference of the conveyance of Ira and Ruth’s relationship in the book, I do like the added aspect of both Luke and Sophia’s relationships with Ira in the
Pleasure, sorrow, and Curiosity are what these characters made you feel at the end. Each character had their own taste and style, it was like I was at a restaurant and each character was a choice on the menu, topped off with their own unique way. All these characters added their own twists and turn onto the ride and at the end Jane, John, Mustapha, and Edgar left me wanting more.
Comparing The Longest Day Directed by Andrew Martin and Saving Private Ryan Directed by Steven Spielberg
“The Glass Castle” based of the memoir written by Jeannette Walls, the movie was directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, and the writing credits include Cretton, Andrew Lanham, and of course Jeannette Walls. Released on August 13th, 2017, twelve years after the memoir was published. When I was told we were reviewing the movie version of “The Glass Castle” I was hesitant on being amazed by it, this is due to movies are never exactly like the book. The Atlantic released an article titled, “The Trouble with Making Books We Love into Movies” and in it the explain why the people who read the book don’t always get what they want, stating, “The movie is the adaptation
The Glass Castle follows the life of the Walls family, providing insight into their strange, yet non-fictional lives. Both the book and movie portrayals focus specifically on Jeanette, the writer of the novel and the movie’s protagonist. The story starts in New York, focusing on Jeanette’s life as a successful writer living in luxury. She has a seemingly perfect life - until it is interrupted after spotting her homeless parents rifling through the trash as she drove by in a cab. The book and movie go into flashback, telling the story of her rough childhood and the ways in which she and her siblings stuck together to avoid extreme poverty and a lifestyle of nomadity.
I picked The Longest Ride as my movie to show examples of Luke Collins and Sophia Danko in relationship stages because I recently watched the movie and remembered it having a good story, building up a relationship, but also having problems and breaking up. This movie does an excellent job showing the first four stages: initiating, experimenting, intensifying, and integration. On the other hand the last four stage: differentiating, circumscribing, stagnating, and terminating, was a little more challenging, in account of them experiencing a break up and then eventually getting back together quickly.
Community is a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common interests, and goals: In the movie Stagecoach directed by John Ford centers a prostitute, a banker, a whiskey drummer, a doctor, an officer's wife, a local marshall, a gambler, the driver, and outlaw Ringo Kid. They all go on a journey on their own risk traveling through territory with a fear of an Apache raiding party lead by Geronimo attacking them. Although the characters have many differences and come from all different walks of life they are seen as the center of the movie because their travel is everyone else's experiences through the trip. They all have there own little opening scene about them that tells about what their past and present life is like. Lastly the movie is centered on everyone in the community of the stagecoach because of their interest and goals lead to them creating new friendships, helping
“My life was taken from me-by one of you !” ( Raskin, pg. 34). In the book The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin a series of roller coasters comes up in this murder mystery. This story has an up and down of emotional events. The Westing Game book and movie contains many similarities and differences that are worth exploring.
A movie that came out in 2002 was Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. This movie was based off the best-selling novel, which was written in 1997 by J.K. Rowling, called Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. If you were to read this book and watch the movie you would find many differences, but the main difference between the two is that the book gives more information to the reader than the movie gives to the viewer. If someone was to watch the movie instead of reading the book, that person would not be able to have an accurate perception of the book because so many things in the book are changed in the movie or parts are left out of the movie completely. This is mainly because the book has more characters and chapters, which are able to keep the reader informed and interested. Still, the movie is shorter so that people who want a quick summary of the storyline can get it,
The short story, "Rocking-Horse Winner", and the movie based on it contrast considerably. When the written story has ended the movie continues with ideas, which may not come from the author. Three major differences of the two are: the mother, the father, and the ending. In the movie the mother, Hester, is portrayed as a loving and self-sacrificing person. While in the short story she is exposed to be a cold-hearted, and greedy person. Another instance where the short story and movie differ is the role of the father.
It is a fool-proof system born to ensure absolute safety…but when it crumbles, would you go against everything it stands for just to save it? This is the platform that Philip K. Dick, author of the sci-fi short story "The Minority Report" (MR), has given us. Set in a futuristic New York City, we see Police Commissioner John A. Anderton as the founder of a promising new branch of policing: Precrime, a system that uses "Precogs" (mutated and retarded oracles) to predict all future crimes. However, the system appears to backfire when Anderton himself is accused to kill a man he's never even heard of. The movie adaptation by the same name also centers on a younger Chief Anderton, a respected employee of Precrime, predicted to murder a complete stranger who he was unaware existed. Amidst scandal, betrayal, and distrust, both Andertons must run from the justice system they've worked so hard to put in place, and admit to themselves, as well as to society, that a perfect system cannot be born of imperfect humans. Though the basis of the film's plot and major conflict stayed true to the story's, many changes were made to the personalities and roles of the characters, as well as the nature and detail of the main conflict and the sub-conflicts.
The Notebook is a very romantic novel for those who enjoy "the yucky love stuff." It isn't good for those who delight in books that are more adventurous because it moves slowly, but at a pace, that still keeps the reader interested.
The book and the movie were both very good. The book took time to explain things like setting, people’s emotions, people’s traits, and important background information. There was no time for these explanations the movie. The book, however, had parts in the beginning where some readers could become flustered.
"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves," Ender, the protagonist, tells his sister, Valentine. This quote explains his struggles with winning because even when he wins, he loses. Ender’s kindness greatly influences the plot in Ender’s Game which was originally a book and later made into a movie. The Story of Ender’s Game is a strategist masterpiece based in space. In the midst of a war with the Buggers, who are Aliens from the planet called Eros, Earth calls upon their youngest and brightest soldiers. Overall, the book was well done and had much appreciated detail, but nothing beats the visual cues that the movie provides.
In my opinion, this novel was a very romantic, and happy love story and overall an wonderful novel. I loved all the plot twists throughout the story. I believe Sparks did an amazing job writing this story. He managed to make the reader laugh, cry, and smile all in a matter of a few pages. The story line is intriguing and very relatable to the dreams of young girls. It allows the reader to imagine the love connection between Allie and Noah and makes them enjoy hearing about their journey together as a
The Webster's New World College dictionary (2005) defines novels as relatively long fictional prose narrative and films as a sequence of photographs projected on a screen in such a rapid succession that they create an optical illusion of movement (p.529 & p.988) . These two genres have been the main topic of an age old debate. The debate revolves around the question, which are better novels or films. People tend to have different opinions on whether books or movies tell a better story.The debate continues to grow due to Hollywood making more and more movies based on books. To illustrate my views on this debate, I will be comparing and contrasting the novel and film versions of William Golding's The Lord of the Flies and Toni Morrison's Beloved. While both novels and films provide their audience with a great form of entertainment, each genre has it’s pros and cons and deciding whether a novel or film tells a better story is dependent on the audiences particular preferences. Novels allow the reader to create the images, voices, and background of the story using their imagination to visualize the story for themselves. On the other hand ,a good director can take a great piece of literature and turn it into an amazing visual experience. However, the film is dependent on the directors vision and audience has little say on how the story is portrayed. I would rather read novels than watch films because novels provide better story experiences for their audiences through its increased creative freedom through imagination, lack of time limits, increased exposure, and the social experience it provides.