The Pedestri Film Analysis

The PBS article on film adaptation discusses the challenges of adapting a novel into film and the challenges filmmakers must make. A great deal of novels and stories have been turned into films. “In novels we often come to know characters best not through what they say, but through what they are thinking or what is said about them in the narration(1) The key part of the film is the narrator, even though throughout the film, the narrator slowly disappears, and you don't often as much hear the narrator. A movie gives the audience exactly what should be seen, while in reading a novel, the reader has to use his/her imagination. Another difference between novels and films, is that in a film it's usually a couple hours long, but in a novel there is no time limit on when it should be finished. Filmmakers are more independent in the making. A filmmaker changes the film when creating it from the novel. The filmmaker might not like how the story is put together and might change up …show more content…
In the film and short story, the character Leonard gets taken to the psychiatric center for regressive tendencies. All he wanted to do was just walk and not sit in front of a television screen, which everyone else was doing. The law assumed otherwise and thought he was crazy, because he wasn’t doing what everyone else was doing. Both Characters walk at night time, he wanted to walk when no cars were out, and he was just walking all to himself. The movie and short story “The Pedestrian” has multiple differences. In the movie, Leonard is caught and taken to the psychiatric center for regressive tendencies, he seems like it's the right thing to do, and does not argue. In the short story he doesn't think he should go there, while he does argue about going. In the movie they add character, they have Leonard take him with him while he goes out onto the walk. In the short story, Leonard is all by himself, with no one to walk