...Sciences Department of Communication FROM THE BIG SCREEN TO PAPER, FROM MOVIES TO BOOKS; THE RELATIONSHIP OF MOTIVATION Survey Questionnaire PART I. Personal Information Name: __________________________________ (optional) Course: ________________________________ Direction: Kindly check the data that applies to you. Age: 15 21 16 22 17 23 18 24 19 25 20 Others: (Please specify) ___ Gender: Male Female Year Level: First Year Second Year Third Year Fourth Year Others: (Please specify) _____ 1. Are you motivated to read if the book has a film version? Yes No If yes, why? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Which tool helps you learn better? Books Films 3. Which do you find more interesting? Books Films Both Others, please specify _________________ 4. Purpose of books Information Entertainment Education Others, please specify _________________ 5. Do you believe that movies can spark interest in a person to read books? Yes No Explain. ______________________________________________...
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...times a film version of a book is either a hit or miss with the audience. A lot of times readers think the film spoils the image they had created in their mind while reading, but other times the film will exceed your expectations and be very good. In this essay I will explain whether or not I liked the film, what parts I thought were very similar to the book, and which parts helped me understand the story more clearly. First of all, I liked the film version of “The Road” a lot better than I liked the novel. The film was much easier to follow. While reading the book, I found it hard to follow along because of the unique writing style that McCarthy used. This style made it hard for me to focus, and made me become easily distracted. The film version, however, was much better. It was filmed in a traditional manner, which made it much easier to follow along. The main difference I saw was the language usage. In the novel, the man and the boy talked in weird, abrupt sentences. This was one of the main reasons it was hard to follow. In the film, they spoke in more normal English, and that made it easier to follow along, and kept my attention better than the book did. The film also did a very good job of showing the action sequences. While the film could have been filmed in a boring manner, they did a good job of bringing the story to life and producing an interesting viewing experience. There were several parts of the film that were closely related to the book. I thought the film did...
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...Educating Rita Comparison of the book and the film “Educating Rita” is a play written by Willy Russel in 1979 that takes place in Northern England at the Open University. To give a short introduction of the play, we meet the two main characters, Rita and Frank. Frank teaches literature and poetry on the Open University, where Rita also wants to learn. She finds herself as being boring, and instead of being a hairdresser, she wants to succeed in what she really wants to do – get herself to know as a person by doing literature and by writing essays. A book and a film are hardly ever exactly the same, often because of the setting and locations, scenes and the number of characters we meet during the play. In the book “Educating Rita” by Willy Russel, we meet a number of characters who have some kind of a relationship to either Rita or Frank. For instance we meet Frank’s girl, Julia, Rita’s husband, Denny and Rita’s family. In the film we meet the same characters including several more as for instance the singing people at the pub besides Rita’s mother and father, the students at the Open University, Julia’s lover etc. One of the reasons, why we meet several more characters in the film is because, it is much easier to put characters into the scenes, even though they are not important or do not say anything. The characters make you visualize the following situations more clear, while the book can only give you a picture of what is written, and of course your own imagination....
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...the novel and the film The Book Thief. She uses words to develop relationships with her foster father, Hans Hubermann; Max Vandenburg, the illicit Jew in her basement; and her neighbours. In the novel The Book Thief by Markus Zusak there is much more relationship development compared to the film The Book Thief directed by Brian Percival. This consequently causes the theme of the power of words to be less prominent in the film. The novel The Book Thief develops the relationship between Liesel Meminger and her neighbours more than the film The Book Thief therefore minimizing the theme. First, Liesel and Rudy become best friends, “Insane or not, Rudy was always destined to be Liesel’s best friend.” (Zusak 48). Rudy introduced himself to Liesel as soon as she moved in, he developed a liking for her and they soon become best friends. Rudy used his charming, and sometimes insulting, words to win over Liesel. This develops the theme because it shows that even if one does not want to like someone, their words can change them into a likable person. Second, Liesel and Frau Hermann develop a relationship, “When she came and stood with an impossibly frail steadfastness, she was holding a tower of books against her stomach, from her navel to the beginning of her breasts. She looked so vulnerable in the monstrous doorway. Long, light eyelashes and just the slightest tinge of expression. A suggestion.” (Zusak 133). Frau Hermann, the mayor’s wife, had seen Liesel steal a book after a large burning...
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...genre book that is most popular with the young-adult reader demographic. The novel was published in 1985 and written by the American author Orson Scott Card (Card). The official website of Orson Scott Card states that Ender’s Game was the winner of both the Nebula and Hugo awards for best novel in 1985 and 1986, respectively (OSC). In November of 2013 the movie adaption was released to the public with a runtime of one hour and fifty-four minutes and was met with mixed reviews garnishing only a “74% fresh” on the movie critics site rottentomatoes.com (Rotten). Like many books that are adapted into movies, fans and critics usually side with the book being a better portrayal of the story than the movie version. Dennis Schwartz, a movie critic from Ozus' World Movie Reviews, expresses his views on the comparison between the movie and book by writing, “Might have worked as a clever thought-provoking read, on film it's a drag” (Schwartz). This common occurrence of the book being better than the movie can be easily explained by remembering that a movie should usually stay around the two hour time mark and that money is a big factor in adapting a book. The major differences between the book and the movie are that Ender’s timeline is completely changed, Ender is portrayed to be a more likable character, and that the cutaways back to Earth with Ender’s siblings Peter and Valentine are completely cut from the movie. These can all be explained through the logic that Lionsgate Films was trying...
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...From Literature to Film Film adaptation is transferring the written work, such as novel, short story comic books and etc., into a film as a whole. The most common form being used to make a film adaptation is the novel. According to George, “between 1994 and 2013, 58% of the top grossing films in the world were adaptations. (Bluestone, George)” According to Linda Cahir, there are three types of adaptations. The first one is “literal”, “which reproduces the plot and all its attending details as closely as possible to the letter of the book. (Linda, Cahir, p16) The second one is traditional, which maintains the overall traits of the book (its plots, settings, and stylistic convention) but revamps particular details in those particular ways that the filmmakers see as necessary and fitting. The third one is radical, which reshapes the book in extreme and revolutionary ways both as a means of interpreting the literature and of making the film a more fully independent work. (Linda Cahir, p17) Traditional adaptation and radical adaptation are considered to be the top two types of film adaptations to discuss since traditional adaptation and radical adaptation are mostly seen in films. In order to examine the effectiveness of both traditional adaptation and radical adaptation in films, Pride and Prejudice (both novel and film), Heart of Darkness (novella) and the film adaptation of this novella Apocalypse Now are going to be discussed here. According to Linda Cahir, “Traditional adaptation...
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...have seen that much of the research papers common opinion was ”Women writers can never write as excellent as men.” Is that true? In my opinion, these thoughts are too narrow and bigoted. The people who have this opinion probably already have their own preconceived notions before they’ve made their judgment. I know there are more men writers than female writers, but you can’t deny that there are a lot of excellent female writers in this world too. Some of them are very famous and the fictions they created are so popular nowadays. They affect countless reader’s minds and how they chosed their next books. For example, Agatha Christie’s << Murder on the Orient Express>> and Charlotte Brontë’s << Jane Eyre>>, are better than most books which are in the same genre. We can never ignore what women writers did to help build the history of world literature and their amazing fictions. They have their own advantages and disadvantages. One big positive quality that female writers have is that they can describe their character’s feelings and minds very well. Most of the time they can express feelings with their pens far better than men. Kegan Gardines believes that these differences in experience will be apparent in the writing. She gives examples of the characteristics of women’s writing that differ from men’s writing: “recurrent imagery and distinctive concept … for example, imagery of confinement and unsentimental descriptions of child care” (178). As for men’s writing...
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...Rana Yiğitbaşı Mr. Christensen L3C – IB Film 27 October 2010 The Legend Hababam Sınıfı Name a movie that is watched and known and adored by the all of the citizens in its country. Name a movie that has music so good that makes your heart beat faster. Name a movie whose audience reactions are the same even after being watched for thirty years. There can only be one answer: “Hababam Sınıfı”. It was firstly an idea, then a collection of short stories, then a book, then a script, then a play and then a series of movie. It never lost its freshness nor its humor after all these years. But why Hababam Sınıfı, and not other books or movies? Why did it become a well-known movie which has never been forgotten? Was it the actors whom the audiences loved to watch or the idea of it? Or was it just the events that took place in the story? For this project I searched about the book of poetry Sınıf, the author Rıfat Ilgaz’s life, how the book Hababam Sınıfı was created, why it was made into plays and movies, and why it has continued to be popular among Turkish audiences. Are you ready to learn a great deal about this legendary book and the movie? Because you are going to find out that you didn’t know even the half of it. As a teacher, Rıfat Ilgaz gives voice to his love for children, and his belief in humanity in his two books about school; Sınıf and Hababam Sınıfı. However, before telling how the book Hababam Sınıfı was created, I would like to explain why and how...
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...Example 1: subject by subject Books vs Movies (capitalize both words) There are different ways to get a story from different sources in modern times. Books have been good sources for stories, but movies are getting more popular and have the same story with wrong word the books. Why auxiliary verb needed people still reading books, and others are prefer watching should be an infinitive not a gerund the movies? Reading books and watching movies have a lot in common but there are some differences that makes the readers remain faithful to reading books. First, books keep a person’s mind going. A mind is filled with questionspunctuation and as the wheels in your head are turning, your brain is being put to more use rather than if you let it go numb during a movie. It is basically the same as watching television versus going outside and playing for a couple of hours. Movies are like a version of a television show, wrong punctuationthey are just longer. Everyone has heard that if you watch TV for too long it is not good for you, that you should pick up a good book instead.comma splice Should not the same rule apply when it comes to watching a movie? You are contrasting movies and books but you go off on another idea of television. Keep on topic and show how books contrast to movies. In this paragraph you are trying to show how the brain reacts differently to movies and books. (Give more examples of that.) Films can do a lot of different things. They can bring whole worlds...
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...May 7, 2013 Watching a movie or reading a book People become curious when they are hearing the phrase “once upon a time”. How do people get to know stories they desire? By watching and reading. Therefore, the same story can be told via a movie or a book but the processes and results are various. Watching a movie is an enjoyable way to gain direct perception of a story. Viewing films is more entertaining as a visual and auditory feast. For the entire story, people have less space to imagine but to be given the whole picture all at once. Those characters are performed by real actors making the story vivid and easy to understand. As for the timing, a movie is usually lasting less than three hours. Once a film begins, it is hard to stop in the middle of it. Besides seeing a film, the same story can be presented through perusing printed pages. Books are much more stimulating intellectually than films. All the scenes are created by the readers without any disturbing judgments of the filmmakers. Unlike movies, books require readers’ thinking and analysis as the story goes along rather than just accept the entire one. Readers recreate the screens, characters and plots of life on their own under the guidance of the author who provides more details through his description. Compared to films, the timing for reading books is highly flexible. People can pick up a book wherever and whenever they want from anywhere they stop previously. Moreover the same part can be read over and over...
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...BOOK AND FILM COMPARISON “The desert flower” Before watching the movie I've maid up a pretty clear picture of how the main character would look like and how she would be. I know that she's black and short haired and I think she have a living face and a glint in her eyes. And since she's a model I think she's beautiful and probably very skinny because that's a preference in the modeling industry. And even when she gets famous I don't think she'll wear very fancy clothes or live in extraordinary luxury, I think she'll be rather primitive. I think she'll be funny without trying and rather corny in some situation. I hope another female model has the part as Waris rather than an actress because this movie is not going to be about the acting but about portray a persons extraordinary life story. I don't think it will be easy to make a movie out of a life story like this and I'm afraid they'll change and ad stuffs to make it more exciting. And I wonder how will they be able to picture Waris feelings when she first arrived in London with only one shoe because it's way much easier to write about feelings in first person point of view than trying to make another person express someone else feeling on film. This is a quote from the book about Waris arrival to London and sees snow for the first time from p 142 “When I got out of the cab outside my uncles house there was a strange ice cold white rain dripping down from heaven like nothing I've ever seen before”. I also wonder...
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...differences and similarities in both the film and book version of Macbeth. They are along the same lines and are very good works. They both follow a similar plot, and have a similar setting, but the way the scene plays out makes noticeable differences between the two. In the movie, the addition of Lady Macbeth being nude during the sleepwalking scene is something that might have been too controversial to be included in one of Shakespeare's actual plays, because public nudity was unacceptable at that time. In modern cinema, the addition of nudity might help to increase the sales and popularity of the film. Other details such as the doctor waving his hand in front of Lady Macbeth, might have been added into the film to show the audience that Lady Macbeth is sleepwalking, while this detail was just described in the book. The scene chosen for this adaptation is a scene which you can see significant differences that can be well explained. Lady Macbeth is joined by the doctor and a gentlewoman during this scene, while she is unaware of their presence. The scene has different characteristics in the book and in the film version, while some of them are not really noticeable, but some of them are highly visible. In the movie, Lady Macbeth has different characteristics in her appearance, than in the book. Lady Macbeth appears to the doctor and the maid as naked, with her long red hair hanging down and covering her breasts in the film. In the book version it is said that she has on a...
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...The Devil's Arithmetic was a great book and movie! There are many differences though to the movie and the book, but there is also a plethora of similarities. I will be showing you the similarities, and the differences all in this essay. So come along and relive the book with me! The Devil’s Arithmetic book was written by Jane Yolen and the movie was directed by Donna Deitch in 1999. In summary, I would describe this story by saying that it is amazing, inspirational, and well written. The story is about a jewish girl named Hannah, when she is at a dinner party called Seder something happens. Hannah opens a door to a whole new world, literally. When she is transported to the year 1945, she is confused but she will soon learn that this is just the beginning. While her uncle named Shmuel is getting married, something happens. The Nazis kidnap them and take them to a concentration camp to work for the rest of their lives! But when Hannah switches out for a friend, she is killed and gets transported back to see her family...
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...Both the movie and book are set in California during the Great Depression era and tells the story of two men, constantly in the run trying to make a living. The two main character George and Lennie, whose role was well played by Gary Sinise as George and John Malkovich as Lennie are a team of two. George being the brains and Lennie being the bronze. The two of them are different from all those other ranch workers as mentioned frequently throughout the movie and book by George, “With us it ain’t like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us.” This dialogue is pivotal piece in the entire story because one of the main themes...
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...Around 1981, Francis Ford Coppola received a letter from a librarian at Lone Star middle school. The text stated, “ We are all so impressed with the book, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, that a petition has been circulated asking that it be made into a movie. We have chosen you to send it to. In hopes that you might also see the possibilities of a movie, we have enclosed a copy of the book.” The written document was signed by 110 little signatures who were eager for Coppola to make a film. Since he couldn’t resist it, he decided to make one. Two years later, on March 25 The Outsiders was released. As any film director should, he tried to keep the movie close to the original novel by S.E Hinton. However, movies and books are two different ways...
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