Comparing 'Rear Window And The Short Story It Had To Be Murder'

Adaptation is a question of recreation, not simply transforming a text into 2D videos by rote. When adapting a text to a film, film makers always have to face a dilemma: to put the fidelity to the original text in the first place or to add more features, taking the risk that new features may contradict to the overall feeling of the story and arouse the criticism from the faithful fans of the original text, who are well-known for their fastidious about any adaptation of the book or story they like. The film “rear window” and the short story “It had to be murder” are a successful example of adaptation. When adding many features to the story, the film retains the spirit of the original text and presents audiences an enjoyable movie. Given that

When the original text can be described as “a detective story with horror elements”, in which audiences mostly enjoy the unexpected plot and intricate reasoning of the narrator, the movie is more suitable to be labeled as “a romantic movie with detective elements”, in which audiences focus more on the character development but not the crime itself. This shift leads to a drastic change to the focus when presenting the content, and the movie maker had to make some change in the original text to adapt to the

If they pay too much attention to the detective elements or the violent parts of the story, they will pay attention to the characters. In the original text, the tactic of the killer is quite complicated and it took the narrator a long time to figure how it worked. In the movie, this part is simplified and Jeff and Lisa figured out how the crime is conducted much more easily. Also, some characters that are not so critical are removed because they are no help to enhance the romantic element of the