Films based on novels

Comparing The Kite Runner Film and Novel It is supposedly said that the movies and books are nothing alike. Many movies take out crucial details that are included in books to prove important facts, yet those points make or break the whole plot of the movie. In Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and Marc Foster’s movie The Kite Runner, themes, symbols, and main ideas are portrayed differently. Through the distinctiveness of the themes, symbols, and main ideas it is evident that the novel has more…

The Great Gatsby is an American Novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald’s. The story tells the life of a man named Jay Gatsby narrated by Nick Carraway, who explains Gatsby’s life through his point of view. The book was published in 1925 and since then has resulted in a number of film adaptations. The adaptations I have chosen to focus on being the 1974 version by filmmaker Jack Clayton and 2013 version by filmmaker Baz Luhrmann. Those are the two most important adaptations that have gained…

its 2013 film counterpart, directed by Baz Luhrmann. All of Fitzgerald’s characters are represented in Luhrmann’s film, each with their own struggles and triumphs based on their choices. Nick Carraway, the narrator of the novel, is portrayed both similarly and differently in the movie than in the novel. From the imagination of the director, viewers are able to see Nick Carraway as they have read him, as well as in a way they have never seen him before. A crucial change between the novel, The…

Chapter 4: Narrative Techniques in the Novels and the Films This study deals almost entirely with films derived from canonical novels. The novels chosen for the purpose of this research originate from varied parts of the world. One notices that they differ in their origin as well as the time period. Even though the novels are all chosen carefully from the best works of twentieth century, they have emerged at different points in time through the modern age. The places of origin differ too. One…

audiences. However, in the 1970s, this is something that was quite common among the American people. Homophobia is something that has existed for a very long time in our country. This can be seen in how the subject is treated in The Warriors. This film was based off of the ancient text Anabasis by Xenophon. Xenophon was an ancient Greek. In Greek culture, it was not uncommon for an older male to take a young male as his lover. The homophobia that can be seen in The Warriors is not something…

used in Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ and Ross’ ‘Pleasantville’ for the audience to develop a deeper understanding of ‘Good Vs Evil’. Scout Finch, the narrator and a main protagonist in Lee’s novel is seen as the innocent child and a mockingbird herself with the quote “…I was slowly drying…

When approaching a film adaptation of a novel, it is important to consider the various differences between the two mediums. Adaptations are mostly criticised on the basis of the film's fidelity to the original events of the novel references are constantly made to what is left out or changed, instead of what is there. More than often a three hundred page novel is made into a two-three hour movie, and a great deal of content is sacrificed .Screenwriters and filmmakers may attempt to remain…

Placed in different time periods and settings, the novel “Heart of Darkness”, written by Joseph Conrad, and the film “Apocalypse Now”, directed by Francis Coppola, both create the same mysterious journey with a change in setting and culture. The journey consists of riding up a river by boat through the jungle. The reason for the voyage is to search for a sick man named Kurtz. Along the way, the protagonists face different factors affecting their mission. Even though they faced different…

The Great Gatsby" is a movie based on the novel The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The movie was produced in 2013 by Baz Luhrmann, and screen played by Craig Pearce and Baz Luhrmann. The audience of the novel and movie is young adults and above. The narrator in both the novel and film is Nick Carraway. Some of the other main characters include Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan, and Jordan Baker. The novel is a better and detailed version of a story about a man who is…

The narrator has a very strong presence in the novel, both to guide the linear time line as well as to provide commentary to various things throughout the book. Switching back from the diegetic world of Victorian England to his more modern time of the 1960’s, he draws conclusions from the information that is presented. The narrator provides insight to characters’ thoughts and backgrounds as well as provides historical background for the time period. He then contrasts Victorian time with his…