Hound Of The Baskervilles Comparison

Slow and steady wins the race. The speed of events in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles is more delightful compared to David Attwood's movie adaptation precisely because it follows the motto. Though the focal point of each version doesn’t relate to the saying, it’s still an important factor toward the story’s gratification. And while each source of entertainment has their distinctions, their moods are similar. Differences in the pacing and the focus of each story cause the novel of The Hound of the Baskervilles to be more enjoyable than its film adaptation while both maintain an ominous mood.
The slower pace of events in the novel allows the audience to creatively interpret the events at their own rate whereas the fast …show more content…
From the beginning to the end, the novel interweaves deliberate details which reveal this. After Lestrade, Watson, and Holmes shoot the hound, Dr. Watson describes the creature as, “… not a pure bloodhound and it was not a pure mastiff, but it appeared to be a combination of the two—gaunt, savage, and as large as a small lioness. Even now… the huge jaws seemed to be dripping with a bluish flame and the small, deep-set, cruel eyes were ringed with fire” (Doyle 222). From the excerpt, it consists of intricate imagery in order to envision the current situation. Thus allows the reader to feel panicky and/or ominous. Equally in the film, it includes tense, suspenseful scenes which makes the reader to have that threatening feeling. During the middle of the movie, Mrs. Mortimer, an added character to the adaptation, talks to Sir Charles’s spirit and transmits what he’s saying to others around her. While this event is taking place, a jumpscare appears of a hound leaping onto the window of the room they’re in. After the event occurs, suspicious and menacing feelings overfill the viewer. The ominous resides both in readers and viewers of The Hound of the