In most cases, when a book is created into a movie, the book always comes out as the ultimate winner in which viewers (whether reading or watching a movie) choose is better for entertainment purposes. This is no exception to The Martian, in which the book was written in 2011 and the movie was released in 2015. Although both the book and the movie deserve praise and recognition for the way it portrays science, there’s no doubt that there’s some differences between the two. Although it appears that some of the changes to the movie seemed to occur to keep up the date with modern day technology, it’s apparent that other changes are based upon the fact that it brings more entertainment and drama to the film itself. Therefore, although the book is a great read and the movie is a good watch, there are definitely differences that can be pointed out. For starters, the ways in which Mark Watney chooses to log his entries are …show more content…
The book ends with Mark being very fortunate to NASA and his crew for coming back and saving him. Due to the fact that he was on Mars for a year and a half with no showers, he stinks by the time he gets onto the spaceship with his crewmates, and the book states that he is waiting for the pain killers that he took once on the spaceship before taking a shower. The book ends with the assumption that Mark takes a shower, feels better, and that the crew makes it back to Earth with no issues. Ultimately, the book ends with Mark and the crew that went back to get him being a hero. In the movie, Mark is still considered a hero, but in a different aspect so to speak. The movie ends with Mark training want-to-be astronauts upon the Ares 5 mission. Instead of the movie ending with him getting on the spaceship after being saved, it goes on to show a healthy and helpful Mark that wants to help individuals who are flying into space be prepared to the best extent
There are many examples in both movie and book that compare and contrast to each other. I felt that the book and movie portrayed characters differently. The main character of the book was Jon Krakauer, the book told about the way he felt about people and his struggles and toils. In the movie I felt
In the story, "The View of Me From Mars," Lee K. Abott writes a story about a father and son relationship. In this story the father realizes that he isn't perfect and tries to have his son cover up his own mistake. Lee K. Abott, though being subtle, makes it known, through the characters he uses, that a person can't believe everything he sees. The author successfully enlightens the reader with his use of point of view, characterization, and theme to make the reader feel sympathy and to give the story credibility.
For those of you who have somehow come this far in your otherwise admirable education without once seeing this influencial film, a brief synopsis: a group of scientists at the North Pole discover a flying saucer buried in the ice, and with it the body of a man from Mars.Unintentionally, they blow up the saucer and melt the Martian.The thawed Martian, or Thing, proceeds to run amok, killing scientists and draining their blood in order to nourish its progeny.Importantly, a group of visiting air force men have taken over in this moment of crisis, a coup which the film seems to believe requires no justification.Thus the major conflict is defined; not, that is, between man and Martian, but between soldier and scientist.The leader of the scientists, Dr. Carrington--who is referred to earlier in the film as both a genius and, more significantly, the "man who was at Bikini," thus aligning him with the H-bomb--is portrayed as arrogant, cold, precise, unemotional, i.e., everything we've come to expect from a card-carrying 1950s egghead.In the four short scenes I'm about to show you, Dr. Carrington demonstrates just what we have to fear.
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.
The Martian is a story that involves a visit to the mars, and after that, the astronauts come out of the Mars leaving behind Mark Watney who his real name is Matt Damon. The team assumed Mark was dead after a strong storm. He tried to survive with the remains of the supplier till he was able to launch his way back to the Earth (MacIsaac, 2015). The story is represented in the Novel, and a movie and these two platforms have some similarities and differences. The movie is the representation of what is happening in the book. Therefore, not everything that it is in the book is covered in the one and half film, therefore several scenarios are left out.
The story of The Martian focuses on the obstacles botanist and astronaut Mark Watney must overcome to survive on the planet Mars. His adventure is filled with fictional and non-fictional elements that are most likely difficult for the normal individual to identify what is actually realistic and what is simply fantasy. After taking a closer look, this film contains a lot more realism to actual science and space travel today. This paper will closely analyze and discuss three accuracies and inaccuracies of the film in relation to the content discussed in ESS 102 lectures, labs, and assignments.
In the book The Martian by Andy Weir, Mark Watney is thought to be dead and left on Mars after a sandstorm during Sol 6. Mark has to survive with what’s left on mars and through many obstacles and tribulations in his fight to survive. The way Mark’s character broadens from start to finish shows that Mark is witty, rational, and driven.
For example, Mama goes to the bank in the movie and is given a hard time about paying her mortgage, but this did not happen in the book. Another major difference is that the school bus scene, where the Logan kids played a trick on the white kids, was not shown in the movie, even though it was an important part of the story. There are some character changes as well. Lillian Jean, Jeremy, R.W, and Melvin are Simms’ in the book, but in the movie they are Kaleb Wallace’s children. However, the main plot difference is how the movie starts in the middle, summarizing everything from the first part of the book very briefly. Additionally, many scenes are switched around and placed out of order. Altogether, the plot and character changes contribute to my unfavorable impression of the
Our technology is useless in the book and in the movie, it wins it for us. In a sense, the endings are the same because a computer virus is what causes the aliens’ shields to go down in the movie and biological viruses kill the aliens in the book. Still, when I think about it, “Independence Day” is the best way to modernize the story. Pre-World War One England is the setting for the story. It fits nicely, for if the humans were more advanced the alien technology would not have smashed them, and actually might have been smashed by technology from that of even World War Two days.
From being trapped in a violent sandstorm that threatens to destroy the Mars Ascent Vehicle which he needs for transport back to the ship to the winds that destroy the communication dish and result in Mark's unconsciousness. (Weir 2) Nature bears the blame for Mark being left behind when the rest of the crew believes him to be dead and returns to earth without him. The conflict between nature and Mark grows even more intense when Mark realizes he will have to figure out a way to grow food on a planet that offers no suitable land for growing. Nature continues to push at Mark at every turn, figure out where to grow the food and nature will not provide water, figure out how to make water and almost die from an excess of hydrogen. The conflict between continues until the end of the book when Mark is attempting to reach the rescue point. For millions of years the wind had been blowing across the planet causing dunes and desert terrain which was extremely dangerous to cross. All of the external conflict caused intense internal conflict; how does a person overcome such incredible forces to
This moment shows that Mark is brave to do everything that is difficult to complete. Additionally, he does not blame his crewmates for leaving him on Mars. Another situation is when Mark is sitting in the Hab before he is going back to Earth, he says: “I never [realize] how utterly silent Mars is. It’s a desert world with practically no atmosphere to convey sound. I [can] hear my own heartbeat” (284).
By surmounting the obstacles placed in front of him, how the hero responds shows his true nature and makes his reward that much more worthwhile. Mars is the ultimate enemy in this novel, and it does not care about Mark’s health or survival. It is therefore up to him to use his own ingenuity and training to figure out how to survive. Things for him start out rough: he wakes up, after being impaled by an antenna ray, to find out his crew has abandoned him on Mars. From here on out, Watney must decide how to grow a food source and make use of the resources leftover from the Ares 3 mission to last until the Ares 4 mission. Furthermore, he survives several explosions to the Hab, multiple grueling trips in the landrover, a giant duststorm, having the rover and attached trailer flipped over while going down an incline, and being launched into space. In a way, Watney essentially achieves immortality status. Being stuck on Mars should have meant automatic death, yet he manages to pull himself together, form a plan, and adapt whenever the plan fails and nearly kills him. This also reveals a lot about his character. With the occasional much-deserved griping, Watney meets every setback with sarcasm and the grim reality that he could die at any point before his rescue. He does not complain or excessively lament about his situation like Väinämӧinen did, but instead
I definitely thought it was quite bizarre, and in the beginning I wasn’t too sure if I agreed with their theories of how the town came to be. Particularly that they are able to hide the secret city on Mars for so long and go in secret on a rocket to outer space seemed so far fetched for me to believe.
He knew it would be quick because now in 2100 it only took 6 hours. He had all is computers set up at his house and would get right back to watch it fly onto Mars. Just then he remembered he had school the next day, and he wouldn't be able to watch it searching all around. When he went to school the next day he couldn't think about anything but his probe. When he got back he got back, he had three messages and an unfixable error code.
The android present on board, Walter, wakes up the crew, around 15 members to deal with the situation. The captain of the ship died in the incident, so the crew chooses a new one, a religious guy with self-esteem issues. The religious guy and the crew do not want to go back to cryo-sleep, so when they detect a radio signal from a nearby planet, they decide to colonize it instead of Origae-VI, which was the planet they originally were headed to. On this new planet, they meet aliens, meet another android, and die one by one in the most stupid ways I ever saw in “Alien”