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The Godfather: A Comparison Of Book And Movie

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Movies can bring a world to life before our eyes. It makes characters into living, breathing flesh and blood. Books on the other hand, let you live everything as though we there as part of the story. There have been great movies made from books, but sometimes, movie versions of books tend to upset readers because they are not exactly like the book. When a Movie director works from an adapted screenplay, the results are different from reading the book. For example, a Movie that exactly follows a novel would probably be too long for most audiences to sit through at a single showing, so some things must be and are left out. A book can easily convey things to the reader that are more difficult for a movie to convey. Things like background information …show more content…

Many people believe that the Movie The Godfather is better than the Mario Puzo novel upon which it is based (barnesandnoble). To many the director of The Godfather improved the book and took out a lot of material that was not relevant to the main story that was written by Mario Puzo. Among the other recognized movies that many people consider to be better than the book versions are A Clockwork Orange, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, The Shining, Psycho and Jaws. Though it is known that Stephen King was unhappy with Kubrick’s method to putting The Shining on screen. King disliked Shelly Duvall’s frail “scream and run” character and Nicholson’s rapid descent into insanity, as opposed to the book, Jack Torrance, who experienced a slower and more painful loss of his marbles (Barnes and noble). Once a Moviemaker chooses a setting and characters, we are restricted to seeing those characters and settings through their eyes. However, 1,000 diverse readers of the same book can have 1,000 different ideas of a character’s appearance. If an actor does not measure up to what was imagined by the public when reading the book, there is disappointment. Remember the ruckus that ensued when the Fifty Shades Of Grey cast was revealed? People care about who plays the parts and what they look

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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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For example one difference is that the film opens with Ponyboy Curtis writing his theme, and in the book it starts with Pony getting jumped by some Socs In the book It starts with Pony getting jumped by some socs in a red Corvair. On his way home from the drive in theater. In the film it opens with Ponyboy Writing his theme for school.

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