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From there, everything turns out to be weird and without any sense. Her adventures are patched together with strange dream logic and fantastic vivid wordplay. She returns to the real world and finds herself in another adventure behind the mirror in a sequel called “Through the Looking Glass.” After she finishes her journeys she feels like she has grown up a bit through her strange adventures. Apart from Carroll’s strange way of balancing the darkness against mad, whimsical humor, this story brings us a girl who tries to explain and fit into a world which seems very complicated to her. She always feels too big or too small and never the right size which produces frustration.
b) The film Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland is not a strict adaptation of Carroll's books. …show more content…
The story takes Alice into adulthood. She's now 19. A wealthy man is proposing marriage to her. She finds herself racing after a white rabbit she has been seeing in her dreams and falls in the rabbit hole like in the original story. But her adventures in Wonderland seem to frustrate her in another way, she doesn’t remember being there (even though she was when she was little and everyone there seem to remember her) and all her journey is actually towards herself. The film is an action/adventure which doesn’t seem to take the action climax at the top. It's all pretty standard Hollywood stuff framed in a very traditional Hollywood script. The actors and the setting is very vivid and nicely made up but it lacks the subliminal darkness of Carroll’s mystery. 6.2. The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and Victor Fleming a) The book The story reveals the adventures of a young girl named Dorothy Gale in the Land of Oz, after being swept away from her Kansas farm home in a storm. There she finds a lot of weird creatures (a scarecrow, a tin man and a lion) who seem to look for something they miss (a brain, a heart and courage). Her entire journey is nothing but a pursuit for finding a way back home. Meanwhile, she helps her friends and overcome certain adventures. All of this happens in a real place and Dorothy returns home like the way she went missing: flying, not on a storm but with the help of some silver slippers. b) The film The first way that the film and the novel differ is in the characterization of the various characters in the tale. The novel briefly describes each character while the film gives all the major characters’ dual roles: one for reality and one for Dorthy's fantasy. The movie takes out the fantastic element and blames it all on a silly dream Dorothy she had after the window hit her in the head. In the movie Oz hasn’t the ability to change form. He appears only like a big head surrounded by fire. The Emerald city is green, but in the book it was green because everyone had worn green glasses. There are many scenes deleted from the book and added new ones. For example, the Witch plays a relatively small role in the book. We meet the Witch of the West in the second half of the story. In the film, however, the witch practically drives the entire plot. 6. Conclusion I believe that a film is not supposed to be better than a novel. It's supposed to be... one interpretation out of many. The reason you feel like a film should have been "different" is because you're watching someone else's interpretation of a novel, not your own. After all, what could make us believe that our interpretation is better than the one of the makers'? REFERENCES: Russ Bickerstaff, Book vs. Movie, March 10, 2010 online:http://www.boxofficeprophets.com/column/index.cfm?columnID=12642&cmin=10&columnpage=1 Megan Watson, Literature vs. film, December 27, 2011 Online: http://www.helium.com/items/2272912-film-vs-literature Richard Corliss, Books Vs. Movies, November 27, 2005 Online: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1134742,00.html Tim Nasson, Faithful Adaptations. The Best Novels Turned Movie, May 23, 2006 Online:http://www.wildaboutmovies.com/features/FaithfulAdaptations-TheBestNovelsTurnedMovie.php Julie Jenn, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Vs. Film, April 3, 2008 Online:http://juliesliterature.blogspot.com/2008/04/wonderful-wizard-of-oz-vs-movie.html ***, Literature vs. film, [April 18, 2012] Online: http://www.exampleessays.com/viewpaper/30404.html ***, Ten
b) The film Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland is not a strict adaptation of Carroll's books. …show more content…
The story takes Alice into adulthood. She's now 19. A wealthy man is proposing marriage to her. She finds herself racing after a white rabbit she has been seeing in her dreams and falls in the rabbit hole like in the original story. But her adventures in Wonderland seem to frustrate her in another way, she doesn’t remember being there (even though she was when she was little and everyone there seem to remember her) and all her journey is actually towards herself. The film is an action/adventure which doesn’t seem to take the action climax at the top. It's all pretty standard Hollywood stuff framed in a very traditional Hollywood script. The actors and the setting is very vivid and nicely made up but it lacks the subliminal darkness of Carroll’s mystery. 6.2. The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and Victor Fleming a) The book The story reveals the adventures of a young girl named Dorothy Gale in the Land of Oz, after being swept away from her Kansas farm home in a storm. There she finds a lot of weird creatures (a scarecrow, a tin man and a lion) who seem to look for something they miss (a brain, a heart and courage). Her entire journey is nothing but a pursuit for finding a way back home. Meanwhile, she helps her friends and overcome certain adventures. All of this happens in a real place and Dorothy returns home like the way she went missing: flying, not on a storm but with the help of some silver slippers. b) The film The first way that the film and the novel differ is in the characterization of the various characters in the tale. The novel briefly describes each character while the film gives all the major characters’ dual roles: one for reality and one for Dorthy's fantasy. The movie takes out the fantastic element and blames it all on a silly dream Dorothy she had after the window hit her in the head. In the movie Oz hasn’t the ability to change form. He appears only like a big head surrounded by fire. The Emerald city is green, but in the book it was green because everyone had worn green glasses. There are many scenes deleted from the book and added new ones. For example, the Witch plays a relatively small role in the book. We meet the Witch of the West in the second half of the story. In the film, however, the witch practically drives the entire plot. 6. Conclusion I believe that a film is not supposed to be better than a novel. It's supposed to be... one interpretation out of many. The reason you feel like a film should have been "different" is because you're watching someone else's interpretation of a novel, not your own. After all, what could make us believe that our interpretation is better than the one of the makers'? REFERENCES: Russ Bickerstaff, Book vs. Movie, March 10, 2010 online:http://www.boxofficeprophets.com/column/index.cfm?columnID=12642&cmin=10&columnpage=1 Megan Watson, Literature vs. film, December 27, 2011 Online: http://www.helium.com/items/2272912-film-vs-literature Richard Corliss, Books Vs. Movies, November 27, 2005 Online: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1134742,00.html Tim Nasson, Faithful Adaptations. The Best Novels Turned Movie, May 23, 2006 Online:http://www.wildaboutmovies.com/features/FaithfulAdaptations-TheBestNovelsTurnedMovie.php Julie Jenn, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Vs. Film, April 3, 2008 Online:http://juliesliterature.blogspot.com/2008/04/wonderful-wizard-of-oz-vs-movie.html ***, Literature vs. film, [April 18, 2012] Online: http://www.exampleessays.com/viewpaper/30404.html ***, Ten