Though they take place in different places, many similarities are seen when comparing Cool Hand Luke with Cuckoo’s Nest. This is seen when Both Mcmurphy and Luke get looked up to by their peers, when Luke and Mcmurphy are in confined space, controlled by a leader, and when they eventually rise up and go against the rulers! First I will talk about how Mcmurphy and Luke are the same.
All three of the stories start with the hero in the ordinary world. For the most part the ordinary world in all of the stories is a setting the hero is unpleased with. Katniss does not like the scarcity of food in her district, Ender gets bullied for being so smart, and Luke wants to leave the farm he lives on. All of them are not anyone you would expect to be involved in anything important. The call to adventure in all the stories are relatively similar.
The War of the Worlds Book vs Movie The War of the Worlds movie was more interesting than the book because it had more action in it. You could see what was happening if the Russians did come to attack us. In the movie you can see the alien and you can see the cylinder. In the movie, it had more action in it. In the movie and in the book they did wave the white flag to be friends and also show that they want peace.
There are many ways that Hunger Games and Star Wars are alike and different in the way they unfold the events in the Hero’s Journey. There are reasons within the Refusal , Crossing the Threshold, and the Mentor /Helper sections show various examples. Within these, Ender’s Game can also be alike and different in the way the events of the Hero’s Journey are unfolded in this novel.
Stars Wars are Antigone are timeless pieces of creative art that will continue to be loved for centuries to come. In both stories you follow a noble protagonist. Even in works as far apart in time as they are, you can still find some striking similarities. In both stories the protagonists face a moral dilemma. Antigone wished to bury her brother but the king deemed it to be illegal.
When Martians attack, what will humans most likely do or what will these Martians act like? How will they attack? Will humans even survive? The authors of “Zero Hour” and War of the Worlds-- Ray Bradbury and H.G. Wells-- have shown their own versions, or scenarios of how they think Martian invasions will go down. Both stories contain characters that try to survive.
There are numerous of contrasts and comparisons that is throughout the stories “Zero Hour” and The War of the Worlds. Both stories’ events and characters are vaguely similar, but also somewhat different. The two stories slightly have the same effect but the characters tend to take care of the situations uniquely. In “Zero Hour” the character Mink was practically mesmerised by Martians just so that can take over Earth.
Lucas new exactly what he wanted when he wrote the original Star Wars, but the technology available at the time was still terribly inadequate and just couldn’t produce the challenging visuals he envisioned. He had created a rich environment containing weird creatures, space battles and otherworldly locations. Computer generated
The Star Wars movie The Force Awakens is almost as good as a bacon cheeseburger! The Force has been awaken! The main goal in this movie is to get BB-8 to the Resistance because he has part of the map to Luke Skywalker, they want to find Luke and destroy The First Order. The First Order is also after the map, they want to destroy Luke because he is the last Jedi.
` In May of 1977, Star Wars: A New Hope was released with overwhelmingly positive reviews and marking a new era in cinema. The writer and director of the film, George Lucas, decided to expand upon the Star Wars universe in 1999 by making Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, with a story that took place before the original film’s story. This movie was made with advanced equipment and cutting-edge CGI (for 1999), nonetheless, the movie was panned by critics and enraged an entire generation of moviegoers. The answer to why this happened lies in the differences between the two films: use of special effects, construction of characters, and complexity of plot. “A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story.
The films of War of the Worlds were originally based on the H.G. Wells novel, The Martian, and were recreated into a movie twice in completely different eras. The movies are similar in the sense that they were both created after major catastrophes to America. Yet, they were very different due to more advanced technology in the later version and what the producers saw fit in the times they were filmed. Both of the films greatly impacted peoples’ anxieties for traumatic experiences that the US was going through at the time of the films. In the 1953 version of War of the Worlds, it addressed the fear and curiosity of the Cold War.
The animation is very exaggerated and the characters are seen as laughing hysterically, which adds a comedic effect. Allowing these scenes to be done in animation allows the characters to do what the real-life actor’s couldn't. The killing scenes were very graphic. Having scenes of O-Ren’s background is important because she was one of the main perpetrators in the massacre, and the flashbacks allow the viewer to develop an insight of the character. It helps give the feeling that even the secondary characters are as important as the main
Star Wars vs. Star Trek The question has long been asked in the science fiction community: which is better - Star Wars or Star Trek? The answer is most definitely different depending on who you ask. Some fans might claim “the force” in Star Wars is better a better weapon than any Federation firearm out there.
Outstanding Protagonists Most people have dreamt about using a wand to spell a cast, riding on a broom, using a lightsaber, and feeling the force at some point in childhood or even adulthood. They are all because of the impacts of some of the biggest franchises in the world, Harry Potter and Star Wars. These two stories exist in different universes. Whereas Harry Potter is a story about wizards, Star Wars is a story about Jedi.
Books vs. Movies The constant battle between watching a movie and reading a book has lead to many disagreements. Many valid arguments can be made in favor of each as well as each having it’s own disadvantages, yet the question still remains unanswered. Books and movies have many similarities and differences when it comes to experience, development, and imagery. To begin, there are a variety of reasons that make movies not as good as books. The experience, the depth, and the imagery are the three main aspects one needs in order to understand why movies are not as good as books.
