Trash, a heartfelt story about three boys who wouldn't give up. In 2009, Andy Mulligan published a novel called ‘Trash’, a couple years later in 2014, Stephen Daldry released a film called ‘Trash’ based off the story from Andy Mulligan. The question is which is better, the Novel or the Film?
The setting I envisage from reading the novel was quite different to the setting I watched in the film. Whilst reading the novel, I envisioned the dump site to be a very large open flat space filled with trash as high as mountains, with no trees and grass, just gravel and orange dirt. I also imagined large tin sheds clumped together over the dump, with groups of working people scattered around them. While watching the film I was dumbstruck by how different the scenery was to that which i imagined it to be from reading the novel. In the film, the terrain was mountainous, with rock faces and completely covered in mountains of thick rubbish. The houses were made out of wood and stood on stilts over the sewerage water which was quite different to the tin sheds I thought they lived in. …show more content…
For Example, I imagined Rat to be around 7-10 years old, but in the film he looks to be the exact same age as Raphael and Gardo, whom are both 14. In the novel, I also imagined the characters to be of Middle-East decent, I think this is because I had previously watched the film ‘Slum-dog Millionaire’ and I related the looks of the characters from that to those in Trash, so it was surprising to me that they were Brazilian in the film and spoke Portuguese. In addition to, ‘Rat’, in the novel was born with the name ‘Jun-Jun’ but in the film Father Juilliard calls him
The setting I envisage from reading the novel was quite different to the setting I watched in the film. Whilst reading the novel, I envisioned the dump site to be a very large open flat space filled with trash as high as mountains, with no trees and grass, just gravel and orange dirt. I also imagined large tin sheds clumped together over the dump, with groups of working people scattered around them. While watching the film I was dumbstruck by how different the scenery was to that which i imagined it to be from reading the novel. In the film, the terrain was mountainous, with rock faces and completely covered in mountains of thick rubbish. The houses were made out of wood and stood on stilts over the sewerage water which was quite different to the tin sheds I thought they lived in. …show more content…
For Example, I imagined Rat to be around 7-10 years old, but in the film he looks to be the exact same age as Raphael and Gardo, whom are both 14. In the novel, I also imagined the characters to be of Middle-East decent, I think this is because I had previously watched the film ‘Slum-dog Millionaire’ and I related the looks of the characters from that to those in Trash, so it was surprising to me that they were Brazilian in the film and spoke Portuguese. In addition to, ‘Rat’, in the novel was born with the name ‘Jun-Jun’ but in the film Father Juilliard calls him