What are your thoughts about how the book and the movie compare? What differences did you notice between the two? How true to the book was the movie? Did the actors portray the characters the way you imagined them when you read the book? If Steinbeck had been able to see the movie, do you think he would have approved? Explain. Which is better - the book or the movie? Why?
#1 - Your response should be no less than two paragraphs and posted by 10 PM, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29TH
#2 - Select one of your classmate's post and write a 3-5 sentence response to his/her viewpoints regarding the book vs. movie. This response should be posted by 10 PM ON FRIDAY.
I though that both the book and movie where good. However I thought that the movie was lacking some. Especially in the last scene I thought that the book showed much better emotion at that point. I did think that they chose appropriate actors and that they followed the book pretty well. If Steinbeck saw the movie I think that he might have a few thoughts but altogether would approve. If you where to ask me to choose between the movie and the book for me it would easily be the book. Not that I hate the movie just that as in most situation the book is better than the movie. I would have to say the movie is one of the best at following a books storyline. Altogether I really liked both the movie and the book.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that the movie left out some. Good job at answering all the questions! You didn't really say anything that I did not agree with. The book was easier to me too than the movie. I think the reason why was because we had in our mind of how it was and then seeing the movie made it totally different. But you are right they were both great!
DeleteI would have to agree with you. I too also feel that both the movie and book were good, but the movies were lacking. In the book, I feel that is easier to have you imagination explore more and make the story better. With the actors, they could have picked different people to maybe make it better. With the first movie, the person who played Lennie did a good job and was very big and large like the book portrayed. But the newer movie the person was as big looking as I think he should have been. Overall I agree with you though and I would pick the book over the movie any time.
DeleteI thought that the book was more detailed and that the main sense of the movie were shown better. Like the seen where lennie kills Curleys wife. In the book he is playing with his puppy and has just killed it on accident. As he's covering it up is when his wife comes in. Although in the movie it seemed like to me he wasn't really playing wasn't playing with the puppy long before she came in and sadused him.
ReplyDeleteI feel like the movie did a pretty good job on the staying true to the book. The main seines where all there. The movie followed the same line as the book. And the time zone was pritrade good. As far as the the characters matching up I feel like goerge should have been older but Lennie was perfect.
There are a few different and similar ways on how the movie and the book relate. In the book, I feel as though you are able to feel more of the emotion and detail that were put into the book. But when watching different segments from the movie, you could still feel those same emotions, but I don't feel as though they are as strong. In the book, you can imply your own amount of emotion. With the movie though, it just plays out how they want you to mainly feel. But in the oldest movie, the ending there I feel is probably the best. In total I'm not sure if it beats the book, but you feel a lot through the movie.
ReplyDeleteIn the scheme of things, I feel that from what I have watched the movie follows the book fairly closely. With the movie as well, the actors did a good job with portraying how I felt the characters from the book should have been like. All in all though, I feel like if Steinbeck was a live and well today, he would very greatly approve of not just one, but both movies. With the older movie again, I personally believe that it might be a little better, but I would have to watch both of them all the way through. Overall, I feel as though the book in general is better than the movie. With this scenario as well, I believe that the book is a little more time consuming, but is better than the movie.
I do agree with you on that. They are kinda similar but different in a way. I like the book better because you can visualize while you read and the movie didn't put a lot into to it like the book.
DeleteI do agree with you on that. They are kinda similar but different in a way. I like the book better because you can visualize while you read and the movie didn't put a lot into to it like the book.
Deletethe book was alot better it helps me see the charters i hate reading.The movie also was alot easier to under stand and read.the book dident have a couple of the scenes and at the begging of the movie a girls running and screaming from Lennie then it goes to them running leaving from an angry mob. and hoe Lennie kills the puppies different. it was about a 70% truth.no i thought Lennie would be alot bigger stronger and not talk funny... gorge also i thought would be big and strong have dark hair insted of light hair and talked different. i think hed done lot diffrent and be kinda offeneded by the actors
ReplyDeleteI think Daniel did a good job. I agree with him that they campared about 70%. Although I think that Lennie was portrayed accurate.
DeleteI think Daniel did a good job. I agree with him that they campared about 70%. Although I think that Lennie was portrayed accurate.
DeleteIn the movie it kind of followed the book but there were a few hiccups. I didn't see the puppy, nor was the dead mouse discovered til the river. Candy's actor protraded him as how I pictured him, and also the character of george. other than that it fell short. I didn't picture Curly's character asian. If Steinbeck saw this I would say he would somewhat be impressed Book, always the book. No movie can reach in to how you pictured the character. Plus there is more detail.
ReplyDeleteThe book and movie compared because it had some of the same events it did in the movie as in the book. Some of the differences is that I had a total different image of what they looked like in the book than in the movie. I think that he would have approved because that's how he wrote the book. I thought that the book was better just because I understood it better but I also liked the movie because it gave me a better image of them and everything else.
ReplyDeleteThe classic 1939 movie tried to follow the book but it added more details and more characters in the story then the book. Some of the differences between the classic movie and book, the movie shows George showing the gun to Slim and there was a sherif in the movie and George and Slim found Lennie at the end of the movie. The movie characters match the image of the book. Slim, Curly, and Carlson played and acted just like the book.
ReplyDeleteMr. Steinbeck should be very proud to see the 1939 or 1992 movies. The movies followed the book until the end of the book. But I don't think he would approve both movies because it didn't include what Slim said to George at the end of the book. Slim twitched George's elbow. "Come on George. Me an you'll go in an get a drink" Curly and Carlson looked after them. Carlson said, "Now what the hell ya suppose is eatin' them two guy?" (Pg. 103). It was important for Mr. Steinbeck to write it in the book but the movie left it out completely. The book was easy to visualize and much simpler than the movie.
i do think that the 1939 one would a made Steinbeck proud it did fallow the book alot more then the new one i think that they did add alot of things to the movie that wasn't in the book but even in the new one i dident like lennies character or slim and curly was not how i imaged them,
DeleteI think that out of the two, the book and the movie. I believe the book is better because any time they make a movie it isn't as good as the book. Mainly because they leave stuff out and can't get anything right
ReplyDeletei would have to agree with you Dylan i think that the stuff the movie left out was cause they couldn't get the scene right or the level of emotion to do justice for the book just like Steinbeck woulda been a pissed off duded to see what they turned his book into
DeleteI agree that the book was better although you haven't finished answering the question. I disagree with the comment in Daniels reply were he says that Steinbeck would be very mad I do think that there are some things he wouldn't like but altogether he probably would have been ok with it.
DeleteI agree with you Dylan! The book was way better in my opinion . In the movie they left a lot out I felt like. Good job answering the question but next make sure it's at least 5senteces so you get all of your points!! Other than that I could agree more with you
DeleteThe book is always better a movie cannot look into the minds of the readers and find out what they imagine. It's a pure soot and miss most of the time. If Steinbeck was still around he wouldn't like the movie=, only the one movie in Black and white, because that's how Imagined the last scene should have gone.
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