When a story becomes popular, there is usually a movie or video adaptation. The movie and story are usually very different from each other in terms of tone or mood but are the same in terms of story and message. The movie can add on to the original story as well to go more in depth about the story or message. This is the case with Kurt Vonnegut’s story,“Harrison Bergeron”. This short story received a short video adaptation about the original story. There were things removed from the original story and things completely new. Though the plot and message are the same, the mood or tone are different from each other. Kurt Vonnegut's short story, “Harrison Bergeron” was a story about how everyone being equal is a bad thing and that differences make us who we are. This story was given a short video adaptation which added on to the story. The tone of the video and story are very different from each other. …show more content…
The video adaptation follows the same plot that the original story has but also adds and removes parts of the story. The story and video both follow George and his wife Hazel on an average day. George watches television and starts to remember the day his son Harrison was taken away; Hazel does the dishes. An emergency news broadcast interrupts the ballerinas on TV. The news broadcast warns people to stay away from an escaped convict named Harrison Bergeron who is “a genius and an athlete, is under-handicapped, and should be regarded as extremely dangerous"(Vonnegut). The channel is suddenly hijacked by Harison as he asks for a beautiful ballerina to dance with him and he begins to remove his handicaps. A ballerina steps forward, removes her handicaps, and takes off her mask. Harrison and the ballerina start to dance but the handicap general, Diana glampers, comes into the auditorium and shoots them both dead. This plot is shared in both the video and story. The video adaptation keeps mostly everything from the original