Essay Of Mice And Men Movie And Movie

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‘Of Mice and Men’ is a novel written by John Steinbeck and a movie directed and produced by Gary Sinise. The novel was written in 1937 and the movie was produced in 1992. Gary Sinise and John Malkovich play the two main characters, George and Lennie, from the novel. The director of the film made many changes in comparison to the novel; these changes will be further explained in the paragraphs below. The first change in the film in comparison to the novel is the opening scene. In the novel it starts with George and Lennie arriving at a pond and carelessly drinking stagnant water. However in the film it opens with Curleys Wife running as well as George and Lennie running from a lynching party chasing them out of the ranch in Weed. In the novel this is explained later rather than at the start …show more content…

Mainly all the characters were as I pictured them from the novel, especially George and Lennie. The actors played very convincing roles and I think the casting was excellent. Another thing the film did very well was setting the scene and quickly giving the characters backstories. As well as the backstories there was also very clever foreshadowing. After the incident in weed George and Lennie escaped in the back of an empty freight carriage on a moving train. And at the end of the film after murdering Lennie it shows George leaving in an empty freight carriage on a moving train. This is a very clever technique used by the author to make the audience

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