Film Analysis: The Skull

Adapting a story into a movie is not an easy task for a film director. There are a lot of aspects that need to be taken into consideration so that the movie would not upset the readers or the writer of the original story. Although the concept of freedom in art-making allows a film director to be as imaginative as he can in adapting a story, the issue of the movie being compared to the original text is in fact inevitable. Personally, I think comparing does not necessarily mean criticising one work of art or the other. It is rather more to finding the similarities and differences between the movie and the original text which the audience who have read the original story sometimes cannot help but do. I partially agree with the quote “A (film)

Dick. The changes that I have made to this story in making my film adaptation are all founded by solid reasons. For example, in the original text, the character Lora plays only a minor character that did not serve much purpose to the story. Her contribution to the plot is only towards the end of the story when she offers to help the main character Conger. In contrary, my film adaptation made Lora as one of the leading characters. She is a secret agent who serves for the First Church which is an organisation Conger is fighting against. Her purpose as a secret agent is to bring an antagonist character in the film which is not apparent in the original short story where Conger did not face any elaborate conflict because there is no specific antagonist. His conflict in the short story mainly described through narration of his investigation process which can be very dull for the audience to see in motion pictures. This is the reason why I chose to reinvent Lora as an antagonistic character that can bring more action and fighting scenes in the film. Lora also serves as a character that reveals the message of the story to the audience at the end of the film because she is the one who will voiced out question for Conger’s action and moral principle. Showing this scene of dispute between Conger and Lora will be an easier method to let the audience grasp the author’s underlying message compared to filming a lengthy scene of explanation through narration. I have taken the author’s idea and messages into consideration before making any changes to the story. In sum, although I have made several changes to the story, I never disregard the important elements in the short story that I feel deserve to be honoured and delivered in the