Our America Movie Analysis

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The book and movie versions of Our America have many differences such as describing how the characters look in the book and how they are different in the movie.Also another difference is how there is more tragedy in the movie than in the book.There are a lot of differences in the book and the movie and there are some similarities too.

In the movie there are differences such as the way the movie describes and shows what the characters look like because in the first part of the movie it showed LeAlan and Lloyd describing how they looked. Also later in the movie it showed how johnny and tyrone looked because it showed how johnny was lighter than explained in the book.Plus it shows how Lloyds life style looks when dave and LeAlan go to wake Lloyd up so they can start their interviewsfor that day.Another difference is how much violence is despayed in the movie like when LeAlan and Lloyd were walking down the street to see a friend or a homi and a car drove by with men shooting the guys on the street and how LeAlan and Lloyd were able to make it to safety and get out nof their as quick as they could.These are some of the

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