I chose the children’s book How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel). This book’s original copyright year is 1957 and is at reading level P with an interest level of grades K-3. I compared this original story to its remake into a comedy movie, How the Grinch Stole Christmas directed by Ron Howard, produced by both Ron Howard and Brain Grazer, staring Jim Carrey as the Grinch. This movie rendition of this Dr. Seuss classic was originally released on November 17th, 2000. The movie is rated PG and has a running time of 104 minutes. I believe that this film’s portrayal of the original story was accurate and successful because it stayed true to the nature of the story and used comedy to embellish parts to make it more entertaining.
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The theme of both the movie and the story, is that the Grinch learns that there is more to Christmas than presents and that love and spending time with others is more important. The movie does a great job following the Dr. Seuss style and language with its dialogue. The original work is written with a Dr. Seuss style of rhyming and the movie also has this aspect. The opening of the movie is different from the book, but stays with similar Dr. Seuss rhyme-like phrases (film 1:14-3:40). All of the words within the book are included within the film, with a lot more character dialogue added for the sake of time and entertainment, as well as extra narration. All additional narration and most of the Grinch’s dialogue are all phrased in a Dr. Seuss rhyme-like way, which helps the movie stay true to the Dr. Seuss style. The illustrations in the book consist of red, black, white and grey colors; very plain. The film uses a variety of fun and bright colors to portray the Who’s and to show their Christmas spirit in their crazy, colorful …show more content…
This relationship is not portrayed in the book. The only mention, and interaction, with Cindy Lou Who in the book occurs when she catches the Grinch stealing their family Christmas tree (book 37-40). This exact scene occurs in the film as it does in the book as well the majority of the wording (film 32:56). The only difference in this scene is that the book portrays Cindy Lou Who as “not more than two” years old (book 37), whereas in the movie she is about 10-years-old. In the film, Cindy Lou Who first meets the Grinch when she goes to invite his to be Holiday Cheer-mister (film 38:30), and continues to grow when they are at the Whobilation. The Grinch and Cindy Lou Who truly become friends when she goes to find him on Christmas morning because, “No one should be alone on Christmas,” (Cindy Lou Who; film 1:29:07). Cindy Lou then helps the Grinch go back down the mountain to Whoville to return Christmas to the Who’s. You see throughout the film that Cindy Lou Who is the one who helped the Grinch realize that there is more to Christmas than presents. She is a crucial role in the film whereas she is a brief mention in the
The theme of both the movie and the story, is that the Grinch learns that there is more to Christmas than presents and that love and spending time with others is more important. The movie does a great job following the Dr. Seuss style and language with its dialogue. The original work is written with a Dr. Seuss style of rhyming and the movie also has this aspect. The opening of the movie is different from the book, but stays with similar Dr. Seuss rhyme-like phrases (film 1:14-3:40). All of the words within the book are included within the film, with a lot more character dialogue added for the sake of time and entertainment, as well as extra narration. All additional narration and most of the Grinch’s dialogue are all phrased in a Dr. Seuss rhyme-like way, which helps the movie stay true to the Dr. Seuss style. The illustrations in the book consist of red, black, white and grey colors; very plain. The film uses a variety of fun and bright colors to portray the Who’s and to show their Christmas spirit in their crazy, colorful …show more content…
This relationship is not portrayed in the book. The only mention, and interaction, with Cindy Lou Who in the book occurs when she catches the Grinch stealing their family Christmas tree (book 37-40). This exact scene occurs in the film as it does in the book as well the majority of the wording (film 32:56). The only difference in this scene is that the book portrays Cindy Lou Who as “not more than two” years old (book 37), whereas in the movie she is about 10-years-old. In the film, Cindy Lou Who first meets the Grinch when she goes to invite his to be Holiday Cheer-mister (film 38:30), and continues to grow when they are at the Whobilation. The Grinch and Cindy Lou Who truly become friends when she goes to find him on Christmas morning because, “No one should be alone on Christmas,” (Cindy Lou Who; film 1:29:07). Cindy Lou then helps the Grinch go back down the mountain to Whoville to return Christmas to the Who’s. You see throughout the film that Cindy Lou Who is the one who helped the Grinch realize that there is more to Christmas than presents. She is a crucial role in the film whereas she is a brief mention in the