The Masque Of The Red Death Movie Analysis

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Many critics agreed that movies are typically different to the original books and “The Masque of the Red Death” is no exception. Moreover, we know that in the written discourse the storyteller makes the sense of what we read via his perspective. However, in the movie the writer of the original text vanishes, the director must depend on alternate apparatuses of the movie to replicate what was felt, reflected and depicted on the book. In adapting “The Masque of the Red Death” from page to stage, Roger Corman includes mush materials, for instance, romance and some Satanism scenes. In the story at hand, since the original story is very short Roger Corman had much to include. The first difference between the short story and the movie is concerning

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