Gods Go Digging Movie Vs Book Essay

It is often said that the book is better than the movie. This would certainly be true in the case of a cinematic adaption of Gods Go Begging by Alfredo Véa. It would be hard to capture the beautiful narrative of the novel without having an almost over bearing narrator in the movie. The presence or absence of a narrator within the movie would become a major point of discussion for the team. The opening shot would picture a gray, gloomy day near Potrero Hill. Starting close enough to see Mai and Persephone’s lips, which mouth, what seems to us, a silent and final word. The women are embracing as they both take their last breath. The Beatle’s Happiness is a Warm Gun begins to play. The somber tone of the song would match the scene of the crime and the environment. “She’s not a girl that misses much.” The camera slowly pans out from above the bodies near the dangling telephone as “Do do do do do do, oh yeah” is sung. “She's well acquainted with the touch of the velvet hand like a lizard …show more content…
The padre would make his trek down to the bay and slip into its dark waters. This is when Miles’ trumpet comes in with a very familiar melody. One that mimics the saxophone. The padre would point up to the sky and say, “Everything turns on Jazz.” (This would be another topic of discussion: whether or not he says it in French) The camera would follow the direction of the padre’s finger and pan towards the night sky. The electric piano in the background of the music sounding like the twinkling stars above. In the night sky, the blinking light of a Mexican-Afro satellite is visible to all. It would be a disgrace not to end this adaption of the novel with a jazz tune. Jazz is a core idea of the Véa’s work. This genre of music is brought up many times in conversations between characters. For example, jazz becomes a major point of discussion in supposin’. The book within itself has a very jazzy