The movie, 12 Years A Slave, was directed by Steve McQueen and it was released on October 18, 2013. The cast of the movie was Chitwetel Ejiofor as Solomon, Lupita Nyong 'o as Patsey, Michael Fassbender as Mr. Epps, Sarah Paulson as Mrs. Epps, Brad Pitt as Bass, Benedict Cumberbatch as Mr. Ford, Paul Giamatti as Mr. Freeman, Adepero Oduye as Eliza, and much more. The mvie is about a man, Solomon Northup, who started out as a free man, but then was captured and put into slavery. During his 12 years as a slave, he has survived as human property of several different slave masters. Throughout this essay I 'm going to talk about the differences of the book and the movie, which one I found more compelling, and interviews from the director and some of the actors.
Every movie and book has their differences. The first difference I notice about 12 Years a Slave was at the beginning of the movie. In the book, it started to talk about Solomon 's life as a free man, but in the movie it started in a flash-forward. In the flash-forward, Solomon was a slave and he was laying down in a tight place where all of the slaves slept. Then it started with his life as a free slave. The second difference I notice was the
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In the movie, you were able to witness the horrible beatings the slaves had to receive and what life was like as a slave, but reading the book makes you feel like you were there. When I read any book, I imagine myself there. I would fell any pain, love, laughter, joy, or any feelings the characters received. In 12 Years a Slave, I was able to picture all the horrible moments from being treated like livestock animals to being beaten to death. Reading the book, 12 Years A Slave, showed me how bad slavery was in the 1800 's. Throughout the reading the book I had tears running down my face because of how bad the slaves were treated. The book version really inspired me and showed me everything I needed to know about
These differences are here so that the film is more understandable for the audience it is aimed at, if the film showed what actually happened, it would be a lot more gruesome, and would have probably have been rated 15 by the BBFC. To conclude, both media portray the same story, but they are aimed at different audiences, if you are looking for all of the information about Pocahontas, the literature is what you need, if you want an entertaining movie, watch the film.
Overall, the movie and book have many differences and similarities, some more important than others. The story still is clear without many scenes from the book, but the movie would have more thought in it.
Twelve years a slave is the title of a book and a movie which was an adaptation of the life of Solomon Northup. Solomon Northup was born in New York a free man. He had a wife and three children, he unlike most other children was educated.”Besides giving us an education surpassing that ordinarily bestowed to the children in our condition” he said page 25, he had a farm and worked as a violinist. He was drugged, abducted and sold into slavery in 1841 while on a visit to Washington, sold at auction and shipped to work in cotton plantations in Louisiana. He was given a new identity and his slave name was “Platt.” he never accepted being
The film 12 Years a Slave takes us into a twelve-year window of Solomon Northup’s life. Its origin comes from Solomon Northup’s book, with the same title, that recounts one fragment of America’s most embarrassing exploits. The film was directed by Steve McQueen and was released in the year 2013. The director chose 12 Years a Slave to work with after much searching for non-fictional story that featured a man who was ripped from his family and forced into slavery. Solomon’s story was just that. Many critics have been praised the film and particularly single out Chiwetel Ekiofor’s performance as the best acting of the year (Solomon Northup).
Slavery and indentured servitude were the primary means of help for the wealthy in America. Either as a slave or as an indentured servant a person was required to work in the fields maintain crops, as a house servant or as the owner of debtor so chooses. The treatment of both was very similar, but the method and means to which they came to America were uniquely different as the following examples will illustrate.
This novel was a very long and strenuous read. Solomon included many details about the process of planting and harvesting cotton or the appearance of a man from head to foot, for example. This painted an extremely accurate picture in the reader’s head, however it made the story boring and slow. There were also a lot of old-fashioned words that I had to look up before I understood sentences. Although the novel was slow and old-fashioned, I would recommend this book to students who wished to learn more about this time period because it certainly helps certain aspects easier to comprehend. Twelve Years a Slave gave me a different perspective to slavery, and a different way of viewing it.
In his true-life narrative "Twelve Years a Slave," Solomon Northup is a free man who is deceived into a situation that brings about his capture and ultimate misfortune to become a slave in the south. Solomon is a husband and father. Northup writes:
The movie and the book are different in many ways but at the same time they have a lot of things in common, the movie doesn't have as much details as the book does but it is a very good movie. In the movie you can very easily see and understand what's going on being you are watching the whole thing with your eyes. The movie also shows you how the students have to fight each and everyday just so that they protect themselves in the streets, the streets is all they know because well they were born and raised in the streets so they learned all about it & are about it. In the movie you can clearly see the struggle they go through, and how the streets are & when they're in school. School is supposed to be a safe place for all kids.
The topic of slavery in the United States has always been controversial, as many people living in the South were supportive of it and many people living in the North were against it. Even though it was abolished by the Civil War before the start of the 20th century, there are still different views on the subject today. Written in 1853, the book Twelve Years a Slave is a first person account of what it was like for Solomon Northup to be taken captive from his free life in the North and sold to a plantation as a slave in the South, and his struggle to regain his freedom. Through writing about themes of namelessness, inhumanity, suffering, distrust, defiance, and the desire for freedom, Northup was able to expose the experiences and realities of slavery.
First of all in the book it gives much more detail than the movie. The book written by wilson rawls is much more heartwarming than the movie that was made in 1974. The book had a lot more detail than the movie, the movie has missing events that were in the book. For example in the book Billy had three sisters in the movie
Second there is more detail in the book than the movie. Well, I think that more detail is better because the more you know the better you understand the movie or
In the movie segregation and racism is more emphasized. To emphasize segregation and racism the movie adds characters ( the cousins) and some scenes. In the book segregation is mentioned for about three times,
I like the reading book better than watching the movie because there are more facts in the book than the movie. Maybe I just like reading books better than watching movies. That’s my opinion. What’s yours (if you’ve read the book and seen the movie)?
Lastly both these stories involve first person accounts. The experiences were from the gangster Henry Hill. Throughout both explanations, the movie and book, he explains his life and hardship of being a gangster. The difference between these two first-person experiences was one was visualization while the other was trying to adapt an understanding. The movie really touched up on the understanding after reading the book and rewatching the movie. It let the viewers understand the setting, along with the personality in a visual
12 Years a Slave is a very iconic movie about Solomon Northrup and his being kidnapped into slavery. Northrup was a free man, a professional violinist, and a farmer. After being drugged, he was shipped away from his family and forced to work in New Orleans. During his slavery, he was forced to pick cotton and endure many hardships for 12 years. Eventually, he was freed and returned to his family. The people who captured and enslaved him served no punishment for their crimes since blacks were not allowed to sue white people at that time. Solomon was stripped of all his rights not only as a human, but also as an American and was illegally put into slavery for 12 years.