Short film

In 2012, Destin Daniel Cretton penned and directed his first feature length film, Short Term 12. Following the lives of employees working at a residential treatment facility in California, Short Term 12 offers a pensive albeit uplifting glance at both the at-risk teenagers living within the facility, as well as the employees taking care of them. There are countless reasons to enjoy this exemplary film, such as the way nearly every character is written to be believable, and complex. Another is…

novelist, journalist, and actress. In her time, she wrote many short stories and plays which began appearing in magazines and journals. One of Glaspell’s best works was a one-act play called Trifles written and performed in 1916. While working as a journalist for Des Monines Daily News, she covered the 1900 murder of John Hossack which is where she received the inspiration for the loosely based play and in 1917 was turned into a short story entitled, “A Jury of Her Peers.” Later adapted into…

The short story “A Rose For Emily” was written by William Faulkner in 1930. Fifty-three years later, the story was adaptation was adapted for the big screen based on Faulkner’s short story. The short story and the film have many similarities and differences; they compare in areas of plot and symbolism, but differ in chronological order and mood. These similarities and differences give “A Rose For Emily” the ability to be distributed in two completely different mediums, while sticking to the same…

Film involves a married couple who meets and a young traveler with them on their yacht for a brief retreat. Isolated on a boat in Poland’s Masurian Lake District, with the conditions ranging from violent storms to dead calm sky, there is nowhere to escape, and changes in weather signal changes in mood. The characters are entirely isolated; not even random extras appear in the background. Polanski wanted to make a simple film about opposing characters forced to…

The movie Big Fish was written by Daniel Wallace and John August and directed by Tim Burton. This film tells the tale of father and son and their struggle to make amends from earlier events in their life. Will, the son, is upset with his father, Edward, because he is unable to establish which of his famous stories are fantasy and which are a reality. Nearing the end of the movie Will discovers that sometimes it does not always matter what is real or fake as long as the intentions behind it have…

“Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.” According to director Akira Kurosawa, this is the meaning behind his film Rashomon. The film is an adaptation of the short story “In a Grove” by Ryunosuke Akutagwa, a mystery regarding the murder of the samurai Takehiko. It is told through the points of view of the people involved, including the dead samurai himself. Because three of the main characters did plead…

William Faulkner was an American novelist and short story writer. He was a well-known famous author, but his dreams of martial glory and a broken love affair were impelled which led him to join the British Royal Air Force. Upon returning home, he enrolled in a few university classes and published poems and drawings in the campus newspaper. Despite coming up short as a poet, Faulkner joined a literary crowd, was famous for his novels set in American South, and won the Nobel Prize and other awards…

a long-running discourse on the nature of the connections between film and literature, it is surprising how little systematic, sustained attention has been given to the processes of adaptation.” He is stating that novels/memoirs are of extreme importance to the film industry so the connections between film and novel are to be noted however most do not acknowledge these similarities. The success of the novel adaptation into a film is successful because the filmmaker noted the importance of the…

The different choices the director or writer makes can add drama, suspense, and emotion to their works. In the short story “Killings,” and in the movie, “In the Bedroom,” author Andre Dubus, and director Todd Fields made impactful decisions that added suspense and emotion throughout their work, and these moments in their writing added power and drama for readers enjoyment. In the short story “Killings” by Andre Dubus used symbolism to give emotion to the character. He chose to incorporate facial…

quite a name. After being adapted several times the one that stuck out the most was the film Minority Report directed by Steven Spielberg in 2002. The film took a radical approach, as shown by the change in plotlines and major characters. First of all, major plot points were different in the film than they were in the story, For example, Anderton is supposed to kill a man named Leopold Kaplan, but in the film, the man is named Leo Crow. Although this seems like a small change, the difference…