Edgar Allan Poe's short story and Annette Jung's screen interpretation of "Tell-Tale Heart" both show a common theme of how all actions have a consequence. Gazing upon the Old Man's chilling eye, working up the nerve to kill him, the mad man hated the evil eye. But once he does, his guilt ,the beating of the dead man's heart slowly hounds his conscience.The character's thoughts, morals, and emotions help depict and guide the readers along the story, as well as to get them to understand the hidden meaning. Thorough details and being able to visualize the character's line of thought creates a thrilling as well as a frightening understanding of the meaning in the short story, something that film lacks.
Talking to himself as if to convince himself of having sanity the mad man and the old man with the vulture eye solely dominated the film and story. In the story, however, the mad man seems more precise and careful as he took a full hour to get his head in the doorway. Furthermore, the film the shows old man as a repulsive, non-verbal, green Frankenstein, with vulture like features and green eyes instead of blue. His blue, filmy, vulture eye is the only thing misplaced with the old man in the story, who was a kind …show more content…
While the film dramatically played out the murder scene on the eighth night, it didn’t give enough light to the efforts the mad man took, which made it lose some of the suspense and eeriness. However, the film accurately represented the scene where the mad man pretended lovingly take care of the old man to the old man, it visually aided the readers to see how he felt using his facial expressions . Overall, the text built up the climax better and left the readers with a cliff hanger of what happened after the mad man confessed his
Talking to himself as if to convince himself of having sanity the mad man and the old man with the vulture eye solely dominated the film and story. In the story, however, the mad man seems more precise and careful as he took a full hour to get his head in the doorway. Furthermore, the film the shows old man as a repulsive, non-verbal, green Frankenstein, with vulture like features and green eyes instead of blue. His blue, filmy, vulture eye is the only thing misplaced with the old man in the story, who was a kind …show more content…
While the film dramatically played out the murder scene on the eighth night, it didn’t give enough light to the efforts the mad man took, which made it lose some of the suspense and eeriness. However, the film accurately represented the scene where the mad man pretended lovingly take care of the old man to the old man, it visually aided the readers to see how he felt using his facial expressions . Overall, the text built up the climax better and left the readers with a cliff hanger of what happened after the mad man confessed his