How many movies have you watched that was based on a book or story? Could you find things that happened in the book that wasn't in the movie or vice versa? In the short story The Birds written by Daphne du Maurier, and the movie based off of that reading by Alfred Hitchcock, there are many of these similarities and differences. Many were easy to pick out, and others you had to dig a little. The characters and setting was very different. It was during a different period in time, as well as in a totally different country in which lived many different characters. Not only were these things different, but also the attacks on these characters. They were at different times and on other people. The last notable difference was the theories about the reason for the attacks. The variety between the short story and the movie is very notable, just as the many types of bird there are.
“The Birds” movie is both similar and different to the short story. While the setting, character, and plot are totally different than in the short story, the main subject is still the same. The characters in the move include Melanie Daniels, Mitch Brenner, and his sister and mother,
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Even though in both the short story and the movie the birds were attacking humans, how they did it and who they did to. In the story the birds had their first attack on Nats hand, where as in the movie it was on Melanie's head while she was pulling into the docks. The second attack in the story was just minutes after the first attack. This was on Nats children. In the movie the second attacks was a day after the first and it was on Mitch's Grandfather. During the night the gulls had got to him and eaten him alive. The third attack in the passage was the night after the first ones. None of the main characters were injured in this attack, because nat had prepared. The movies third attack was on the school. In this one only one child was