It's A Wonderful Life And The Greatest Gift Comparison

One of the most difficult challenge, a director can do, is making a short story into a film. Two iconic films that originated from the short story is, It’s A Wonderful Life, is directed by Frank Capra and originated from, The Greatest Gift, written by Philip Van Doren Stern, and 2001: A Space Odyssey, is directed by Stanley Kubrick and originated from, The Sentinel, written by Arthur C. Clark. These films differ from their short story by having a twist that challenge’s and question’s the audience on what they saw, so it could leave a lasting effect on them. Yet, both films stay as hard as possible to stay loyal to the source material. It’s a Wonderful Life is often appreciated as a heartwarming, and an inspirational story whose message is that a single person can make so much difference to, so many other people’s lives. However, there are some critics who argue that the story

In 2001: A Space Odyssey originated from Arthur C. Clark, short story, The Sentinel, which is about the finding of an artifact, like the monolith, is sending signal to the human, where our narrator believes it’s a message to warn us of the unknown send from aliens, the origin of it is unknown. It’s clear that the movie follows a concentration strategy since the director keeps most of the element of the short story to be a main plot in the films, while inventing elements to the rest of the films. Like, It’s a Wonderful Life, which was adapted from the short story, The Greatest Gift, the director follows a concentration strategy since the follow the main plot of the short story in the end of the film. However, unlike the film, the short story does not show how he ended up chosen suicide, in which the film, perfectly executed the reason for George to commit suicide. Both took a concentration strategy on their film, but were able to improve and give a reason for the plot of both short