This would happen to be my report on what happened to Anne and her family while World War II was in action once it was converted to a play and a movie format. I'm sure they both these versions are much less graphic than Anne and her family saw it. I just hope Anne feels that they do her story justice. Both the play and film version of The Diary of Anne Frank focus on Anne Frank and her family's experiences in hiding. However, there are some similarities, including how Anne hands out presents to her family members and the other people in the Annex, and some differences, such as Anne and Peter's relationship and, Margot and Peter's relationship.
A similarity is that when Hanukkah came around in the Annex, Anne gave each individual a heartfelt present. (page 514 starting with Margot and ending with Mr. Dussel on Page 516.) Anne did give Margot a crossword puzzle, Mrs. Van Daan shampoo, Mr. Van Daan cigarettes, Mrs. Frank an IOU for 10 hours of services, Mr. Frank a muffler, Mouschi a toy, and Peter a safety razor, and Mr. Dussel ear plugs. In the movie the dialogue changed, but the actions and presents did not. Each person showed the same emotions as they did in the movie and the underlying emotion of joy. The reason that film-makers most likely kept it the same was to show that even though Anne could have left Hanukkah alone and stuck to singing the songs and lighting the candles, she chose not to. It showed that even though they were hiding in the midst of a war, Anne wanted them to all have fun. Even when it meant she wasn't getting any presents, she never faltered or complained about it. It showed her maturity and ability to make even the worst of situations better.
A large difference I noticed was Anne and Peter’s re...
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...nt for it to actually happen, both revisors stayed true to Anne’s diary. Though there were differences in Anne and Peter’s love life and how Margot and Peter progressed to only be friends, I would assume it was a difficult task to convert the diary to this format. The similarities like Anne giving the presents were the more heartfelt moments to show where Anne grew and made sense to include them in both. Both were heartbreaking to know that the Franks, the Van Daans, and Mr. Dussel had to endure this terrible time. Anne, Margot, and Peter having to endure it as children. Knowing that it is not fiction and this actually happened to not just them, but others is unfathomable to me and I will never be able to grasp it unless I am ever unfortunate enough to go through it myself. Maybe not even then.
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The Diary of Anne Frank movie and play pages 514, 516, 540
On the other hand, in the movie Anne Frank, Anne lived in Amsterdam and her family was a little more wealthy. Elie would play in the streets and have a good time, even though they did not know what was going on. However, Anne would go to school and ride bikes with her friends. Anne would also write in her diary as much as she could. Anne had only one older sister, while Elie had two older and one younger.
On an early morning in July of 1942, the Van Daans and Franks meet up for the first time at the annex. All of them are covered in layers of clothing to carry as much to their new home as possible. They are all introduced to each other. Living in the secret annex is Mr. and Mrs. Van Daan, Peter Van Daan, Mr. and Mrs. Frank, Margot, and Anne Frank. Mr. Van Daan is a selfish, greedy man. Mrs. Van Daan likes the finer things, thinks pretty highly of herself and adores her husband. Peter is shy, quiet, and just truly doesn’t say much. Mr. Frank is a kind, caring, leading man. Mrs. Frank is motherly, caring, and sweet. Margo does as others say and tries to keep a low-key profile. Anne is wild and unique. She doesn’t let others push her around, and she is very independent. Everyone in the annex is very different.
The characters and their personalities were very similar in both the book and the movie. On the other hand, the appearances and relationships of the characters were exceedingly different. In my opinion, I liked the movie better than the book. It was generally more exciting. My favorite part was the fact that it displayed what the community was going through during Jonas’s
There are many major similarities and differences between the book and movie forms of the Secret Life of Bees. Three similarities are that in the movie and the book, June and Lily grew to love each other in the same way, Lily and T-Ray’s relationship was the same and the reason Lily ran away from him was the same, and finally, Lily and Rosaleen have the same relationship. Three major differences between the two forms of the Secret Life of Bees are that T-Ray finds Lily and Rosaleen in a different way in the movie than in the book, there is no Mary Day celebration or vigil in the movie, and finally, in the book, Lily narrates how she is feeling and what she is thinking. On the other hand, she does not do this in the movie. There are many similarities and differences between the movie and the book forms of the Secret Life of Bees, causing the movie to be missing many important details.
Each version also has the main characters boarding up the windows. Anyone who thought the birds won’t attack are usually found dead, but in the movie they are found with their eyes pecked out. Also, both the story and the movie have REALLY bad endings! They aren’t very similar, but they both leave you hanging. When you see a movie or read a book you want to know what happens to the main characters. In these two, you didn’t get an ending. They left you hanging and for some people that ruins it all.
First, Anne Frank lived in Amsterdam, Netherlands and had to live in her father’s warehouse in a secret annex during the war to hide from the Nazis, who wanted to capture them for being Jewish. On the other hand, according to Wakatsuki and Houston, Jeanne lived in Long Beach, California and the United States government wanted her because she was Japanese. The government wanted the Japanese because Pearl Harbor recently had been bombed by Japan. Another difference is that Anne Frank was thirteen when she first went into hiding, while Jeanne was only seven when she got sent to an internment camp(Goodrich and Hackett and Wakatsuki and Houston). Next, their lives where they lived were very different. Anne Frank was not allowed to go outside and was not able to talk from eight in the morning to six at night. In her hiding spot Anne and her family did not have much food and were hungry at some points(Goodrich and Hackett). On the other hand, Jeanne was allowed to go outside and talk whenever she wanted. At the camp there was shortages of certain foods, such as sugar, but there was enough food most the time. But, when there was enough food it was not prepared well(Wakatsuki and Houston). In the end, both Anne Frank and Jeanne both had a hard time during World War
There is other little differences that I noticed added to the story that were in the movie and not the play. There are several scenes where Mother superior is interacting with Sister Veronica. Because of some of these scenes you see another side of Sister Aloysius that presents a more compassionate lady not so wrapped up in doubt. Although Sister Aloysius comes off as a strict woman that really has no sympathy for anyone or anything, which kind of makes you question how the heck she ended up as a nun. In the movie you can clearly see that she has a softer side and actually is hiding behind that tough façade she puts up.
There are other subtle differences between the two movies, including the scenes. The original movie is set in a very traditional setting. The party takes place in a castle and everything is very fitting for the time frame. Not very original, but still effective. The new version is a bit more imaginative. It's not only more modern, but it's an amplified version of our world today; something that appeals to the viewing public. There are guns, security guards, cars, a pool, and a modern ballroom with a working elevator. These differences in the settings all have an effect on the overall movie. Other things that change the mood are the drugs, the wild party, and the drag queen. All things that add a lot of character to a movie.
Stark contrasts exist between the description of the characters and emotional content between the book and the movie. This may be mainly due to the limited length of the movie. In the movie, Rat Kiley who is telling the story seems gentler. In the book they make it seem like everything Rat says is exaggerated, but the movie does not stress that fact. “Among the men in Alpha Company, Rat had a reputation for exaggeration and overstatement, a compulsion to rev up the facts, and for most of us it was normal procedure to discount sixty or seventy percent of anything he had to say” (O’Brien 89). Also, the movie emphasizes the fact that Rat Kiley fell in love with Mary Anne Bell. He himself says he loved her towards the end of the movie. A character that people may tend to have sympathy for is Mark Fossie. In the book, one may not feel for Fossie. The movie shows the character having more feeling especially after he couldn’t find Mary Anne. A third character that is portrayed differently in the movie than in the book is Mary Anne, who is the main female character of the chapter. The movie stressed the fact that Mary Anne wanted to learn more about the Vietnamese way of life. There was a scene in the movie where Mary Anne spent time with the Vietnamese soldiers learning their language and how to cook their food. They also show her going ...
Anyway, the first difference between Anne and Peter is Anne is wild and ou there while Peter is more to himself. On many occasions Peter opted to stay in his room with his cat Mouschi rather than eat. Anne is more expressive. For example, if something/someone gets her mad/upset she will inform everyone around her of it. This is evident when her mother tries to see if she's alright by asking her to see her tongue. Anne refuses her mother's instruction to show her tongue. Mrs.Van Daan gets involved and instructs her to listen. So as you can see Anne can be quite something. Another difference between Anne and Peter is Anne has a tense relationship with her mother while Peter has a tense relationship with his father. It is evident Peter has shaky or tense relationship with his father because when Mr.Van Daan says to Dussel ''Did Mr.Kraler warn you that you won't get much to eat here?". The stage direction after that says "Peter walks away humiliated". The third and final difference is Anne's mother and father have a good relationship and Peter's mother like him doesn't get along with his father. There isn't much evidence to prove that Mr. and Mrs.Frank have a good relationship. But, their relationship is golden compared to Mr. and Mrs.Van Daan which involves yelling and lots of it. There is a particular item that causes tension. The item is Mrs.Van Daan's fur coat. Mrs.Van Daan believes the coat
Before it was ever made into a play or a movie, it first had to become a book. A lot of people were and still are impacted on the diary by Anne Frank. On August 4, 1944 Anne Frank and her family is found in the Secret Annex and arrested. One of the things she leaves behind is her diary, scattered all over the floor. Later Miep grabs her diary and saves it. When Otto Frank comes back from the concentration camp Auschwitz, Miep hands Otto the book. Otto first decides to keep the dia...
...rtrayed differently in the movie. Lennie is shown as being very mentally challenged, whereas in the book he is just a little slow and has a mind of a young child. Although some changes are made in the movie to make it flow better, it is still based on the same story as the book. The movie has the same plot line and characters, and some of the scenes are told in the exact same way as they are in the novel. As well, the movie and the book give out the same themes. This story is about how all the people in the Great Depression were trying to escape their unhappy, lonely lives, but weren’t capable of doing so. The movie stays very true to the book even though some things are removed or added. Everything that is added or changed still works very well and captures the film perfectly.
The film version certainly gives us a more vivid view of the story, especially in scenes set in Fanny’s Portsmouth home, where we can see the squalor you end up in when you marry for love. The film is also more poignant on the issues of slavery and abuse of human rights. I am referring to the wailing Fanny hea...
Anne wrote about her inner self and outer self, referring to how she acted around others versus how she really felt. She discovered that as well as herself, everybody else also had an inner self, and she still intended to share her inner self with others but didn’t know how to. “I get cross, then sad, and finally end up turning my heart inside out, the bad part on the outside and the good part on the inside, and keep trying to find a way to become what I’d like to be and what I could be if . . . if only there were no other people in the world.” Her final quote reflected her internal conflict regarding her separate selves. Her diary ended abruptly because the Annex was discovered, and there is no telling whether this internal conflict was resolved or not. Anne died in a concentration camp, but her diary was published, along with her dreams and aspirations. This brings a new level of reality for readers, because it reminds them that Anne was a real person, what she wrote were real experiences and evokes poignancy. The way the story is set up, as a diary, is the most powerful aspect of the story. Anne’s diary was written whilst the events happened, her voice reflected current events. The reader can see her changing through the course of the book and feel a sense of empathy for her
On June 12, 1929, at 7:30 AM, a baby girl was born in Frankfort, Germany. No one realized that this infant, who was Jewish, was destined to become one of the worlds most famous victims of World War II. Her name was Anne Frank. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank and B.M. Mooyaart, was actually the real diary of Anne Frank. Anne was a girl who lived with her family during the time while the Nazis took power over Germany. Because they were Jewish, Otto, Edith, Margot, and Anne Frank immigrated to Holland in 1933. Hitler invaded Holland on May 10, 1940, a month before Anne?s eleventh birthday. In July 1942, Anne's family went into hiding in the Prinsengracht building. Anne and her family called it the 'Secret Annex'. Life there was not easy at all. They had to wake up at 6:45 every morning. Nobody could go outside, nor turn on lights at night. Anne mostly spent her time reading books, writing stories, and of course, making daily entries in her diary. She only kept her diary while hiding from the Nazis. This diary told the story of the excitement and horror in this young girl's life during the Holocaust. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl reveals the life of a young innocent girl who is forced into hiding from the Nazis because of her religion, Judaism. This book is very informing and enlightening. It introduces a time period of discrimination, unfair judgment, and power-crazed individuals, and with this, it shows the effect on the defenseless.