The Most Dangerous Game Book Vs Movie Essay

The Most Dangerous Game Essay Do you not like how hollywood changes books to fit the big screen? This essay will compare and contrast The Most Dangerous Game movie and short story. I will be comparing characterization, setting, and plot. There will be five paragraphs, with at least six - seven sentences. This essay will show all the differences that hollywood changed on the movie from the original short story. The integrity of the story is affected by the many differences and similarities in the areas of initiating events, characterization, and plot between the story and movie The Most Dangerous Game. First is characterization, with the differences. The character from the story Whitney is no longer in the movie at all. General Zaroff is renamed Count Zaroff in the movie. In the movie at Zaroff’s mansion, there were two siblings, a man and woman, who are there that were not present in the short story. Finishing the difference is the Zaroff has more than one servant in the movie, as in the short story he had more than one. The only characters that remained detailed somewhat the same was Rainsford.

Rainsford does not have dinner once he meets Zaroff, same as the short story, as that would then initiate where Zaroff tells Rainsford what he hunts on the island. In the movie to tell what Zaroff is hunting he brings the person who he will begin hunting to his trophy room, which has skulls of the humans he killed, we see this for the first time when Zaroff brings the male that was shipwrecked with his sister to the trophy room on one night. The setting of the house is quite different as the mansion in the short story version has electricity, in the movie they carry a torch, and candles litter the castle. The original story’s island may have been different, as Zaroff tells Rainsford that there is a swamp, but with only quicksand. In the movie however there was an alligator in the swamp on the