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Huckleberry Finn Movie Vs Book Analysis

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Compare and Contrast Huck Finn
When a book is being adapted into a movie, changes have to be made, especially if doing the book identically would involve a three to four hour movie. What changes should be made? Are all the simplifications going to change the basic message and plot? In the case of the novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, there are many differences and similarities between the book and the Disney Home Videos version directed by Stephen Sommers. There are differences and similarities in the elements of plot, characters, and characterization. All together, these elements make up the move from a book version to a movie version.
Many of the differences between the movie and the book are due to the simplifying of the …show more content…

Jim discovers Pap’s body on the boat while Huck discovers the two murderers. The boat collapses and sinks, skipping Huck’s later effort, in the book, to send a ferry back to the boat to save the two men. Some differences in plot do change the story somewhat. The movie fails to show Jim and Huck stealing the girls’ clothes that Huck wears to town. It uses implication instead of being explicit. Other times the movie goes beyond simplification and actually changes the tone of the story, such as the removal of the Royal Nonesuch, which is a crucial comical relief in the book that brings out more of the duke and king’s …show more content…

There are still the basic main characters such as Huck, Jim, Pap, the Duke and the King, the Grangerfords and the Sheperdsons, Miss Watson, and the Widow Douglas, but there are also characters taken out, such as Tom Sawyer, Aunt Polly, and the Phelps. These characters form a crucial part of the plot in the book that is not present in the movie. Instead of Tom being shot, Huckleberry is shot. Instead of having Jim captured by the Phelps, Jim is put in jail. Therefore, when Huckleberry and Jim are caught, Jim is almost hung. Huckleberry wakes up in the Wilks ’ house to find that Jim is all spiffed up and has been set free by the recently deceased Miss Watson. The widow Douglas has come and is going to civilize Huck, but Huck runs away again. The Phelps have been replaced by the widow, Tom by Huck, and Aunt Polly, also, by the widow. As a result, the entire ending has been changed, for the movie.
The differences in what characters are in and not in the movie and book, and the parts of the book, that the movie omits, simplifies, or replaces lead to different in the characterization of the characters. The duke and the king are more openly evil in the movie. They threaten to turn Jim in if Huckleberry does not keep silent. Huckleberry and Jim seem more fearful and less caring in the movie because Huckleberry never sends a ferry

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I think these differences make the book and the movie way both interesting. I think the differences are good because it sums it all up and with hearing both the book and the movie it fills in the blank questions in your

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Also the little things that caught my attention like when Sarny screamed after Nightjohn lost his finger and when Mr. Waller made Mrs. Waller slap Sarny. In the book their was less things going on, their was less descriptions, and it was not as specific. I liked the movie more than the book because in the movie you can see how the characters looked. In the movie you can see the kind of person each character is like if they were nice or mean. Also in the movie you could see the pain in a slave’s face after they were whipped or if the got their finger cut

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For instance, a major difference between the book and the movie is that in the movie, True Son doesn’t have a white brother. Gordon Butler is in the book, but he’s not in the movie. This is a really big difference because Gordon was a big part of True Son’s decision to save the whites. Luckily, the movie creators replaced him with someone else. The new character is Shenandoah, a housemaid that True Son falls in love with.

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By the end of the book, he had started to realize that he really did care about Jim. Huck is writing Miss Watson a letter towards the end of the book talking about where Jim is and how she can get him back. After writing the letter, Huck starts to think about the good times he had with Jim and says that “...somehow I couldn’t seem to strike no places for me to harden against him, but only the other kind.”(213). This was the most powerful part in the book for me because after thinking of all the good that Jim has brought him, he tears up the paper and says “All right, then, I’ll go to hell”(214). In Huck’s mind, he had the choice to send the letter and go to heaven or to try to save Jim and go to Hell for doing the wrong thing as far as the widow taught him.

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For example, in the book, only one person drowns Pony, but in the movie, three people drowned him. This is different because in the book Pony is being drowned at the water fountain by only one person. On the other hand in the movie Pony is getting drowned by three people instead of one like it is in the story. Another comparison between the book and the movie would be when Ponyboy goes to court and doesn’t testify in the book, but in the movie he does. These are different because in the book when Pony has to go to court for the murder of Bob he doesn’t testify in the movie when he goes to court he does testify.

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He did this by destroying the cabin and spreading blood (animal) throughout the cabin to look like someone killed him. Then, he used a boat he found to sail down the river to Jackson’s Island. Conflict: Character vs. Character- Pap would physically abuse Huck and this resulted in Huck

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what was different in the story and movie was some of the characters. Like meg in the book she had frizzy hair, braces and glasses and in the movie she does not have frizzy hair, braces or glasses . For Charles Wallace he is 5 and not in school and in the movie he is 6 or 7 and in school. The setting for

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Why did hollywood change the story of Beowulf? So why did hollywood change the story of beowulf? There are many different reasons why they would change the story, such as, they were just trying to change it to entertain the modern day people, also because that's just what hollywood does, they changer books or stories to what they think would get they the most views. People now a days are a tough crowd to please, there are certain things that make them interested in a movie or a book, hollywood was trying to change the book to make more people want to watch the movie, for example in the book Grendel slays the Danes in the night while they are sleeping so none of them have the chance to challenge him, in the movie Grendel bursts into Heorot in the night but the Danes are awake and they fully witness his killing. Hollywood changed the movie the way they did to help get

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