Martin Guerre Book Vs Movie

This paper will consist of an analysis of the treatments of Martin Guerre in the film The Return of Martin Guerre by Vigne, and On the Lame by Natalie Davis. These two articles may be about the same case however they are significantly different in various ways. The key point of this essay is to make efforts to differentiate the two and show how a chain of historic events can be converted into a movie and also transformed into a book. Both the film and the book have the same name. Strikingly a history analysis was completed before the film. It was not until Davis served as an overseer of the film that she decided that she wanted to write the book. In this case it wasn’t the usual where the book comes out followed by the movie.
The movie preceded the book in this case. This film was developed by two directors from southern France, where the events actually took place. Each …show more content…
But the book unlike the movie gives more of a personal connection. However, in the film much emphasis is placed on the how the story is viewed and presented with that being done the viewers are able to see what the characters look like, and what the setting of the town looked like. However, the individual reading the text will not have these feelings from the book because the description the people and the environment in the text is extremely vague. Davis feels as if the film deviates too much away from the primary source she also acknowledges that in areas that were the evidence was not present that a “certain leap of faith” had to take place in the story which is something that she created. When a filmmaker creates a film there is an artistic license, this doesn’t just stick to the film makers. On the other side of the spectrum there are also processes of inductive reasoning that the authors have to abide by as well. As a matter of fact, in her book she mentions “the wife’s and judges inner contradictions were softened in the