The film adaption of The Diving Bell and The Butterfly is an inspiring movie about the story of Jean Dominique Bauby who suffers a stroke that leads to him being paralysed from head to toe. The film adaption of the book written by Jean-Dominique Bauby accurately depicts who Jean-Dominique Bauby was, settings, and his love life.The film used flashbacks, imagery, and portraying the portrayal of Bauby as man who was coming to terms with his condition.
The use of flashbacks in the beginning and throughout the film were quick and did not have color. An interesting aspect in the film was when he was about to have a flashback the screen would momentarily turn a bright white before the next scene, which was the flashback was shown. The use of the …show more content…
The differences between the film adaption and the book were Jean-Dominique Bauby himself, his love life, and certain events that took place. The film adaptation made Jean- Dominique Bauby seem as a man who wanted to die and leave the world behind. During his speech therapy session with Henriette Roi his speech therapist, Bauby blinked the words, “I want to die” (Diving). The article written by Beth Arnold that gives insight on who Bauby was and what truly happened in his love life. According to Fichou Bauby’s speech therapist she said, “No, it wasn’t like that in real life. I remember Jean-Do never said that he wanted to die” (Arnold 5). The film adaptation of Jean-Dominique Bauby drastically set both film and book apart. The love life of Bauby was manoeuvred away based on the book. In the film Céline, Bauby’s ex-wife in the film is seen as a woman who has unrequited love for him and thus Bauby is oblivious to her attempts to love him. In the book Bauby rarely mentions his ex besides mentioning her “Today is Father's Day. Until my stroke, we had felt no need to fit this made-up holiday into our emotional calendar. But today we spend the whole of the symbolic day together, affirming that even a rough sketch, a shadow, a tiny fragment of a dad is still a dad” (70). This recollection is all that Bauby mentions of Céline in the book. The article “The Truth About “The Diving Bell and the …show more content…
In the movie it tells of the “....women in his life….as an invalid babe magnet and the women surrounding him as vying for his attention” ( Arnold, para.10). Bauby does not write anything of that sort in his book or mentioning of his relationships with any woman. The article written about Bauby gives first account about him from his close friends and those who knew him, which greatly gave a depiction on how he was towards others.The article tells of a whole different Bauby that was not accurately portrayed in the film that was to be about his life after the
The use of flashbacks in the beginning and throughout the film were quick and did not have color. An interesting aspect in the film was when he was about to have a flashback the screen would momentarily turn a bright white before the next scene, which was the flashback was shown. The use of the …show more content…
The differences between the film adaption and the book were Jean-Dominique Bauby himself, his love life, and certain events that took place. The film adaptation made Jean- Dominique Bauby seem as a man who wanted to die and leave the world behind. During his speech therapy session with Henriette Roi his speech therapist, Bauby blinked the words, “I want to die” (Diving). The article written by Beth Arnold that gives insight on who Bauby was and what truly happened in his love life. According to Fichou Bauby’s speech therapist she said, “No, it wasn’t like that in real life. I remember Jean-Do never said that he wanted to die” (Arnold 5). The film adaptation of Jean-Dominique Bauby drastically set both film and book apart. The love life of Bauby was manoeuvred away based on the book. In the film Céline, Bauby’s ex-wife in the film is seen as a woman who has unrequited love for him and thus Bauby is oblivious to her attempts to love him. In the book Bauby rarely mentions his ex besides mentioning her “Today is Father's Day. Until my stroke, we had felt no need to fit this made-up holiday into our emotional calendar. But today we spend the whole of the symbolic day together, affirming that even a rough sketch, a shadow, a tiny fragment of a dad is still a dad” (70). This recollection is all that Bauby mentions of Céline in the book. The article “The Truth About “The Diving Bell and the …show more content…
In the movie it tells of the “....women in his life….as an invalid babe magnet and the women surrounding him as vying for his attention” ( Arnold, para.10). Bauby does not write anything of that sort in his book or mentioning of his relationships with any woman. The article written about Bauby gives first account about him from his close friends and those who knew him, which greatly gave a depiction on how he was towards others.The article tells of a whole different Bauby that was not accurately portrayed in the film that was to be about his life after the