Read a book that has been made into a movie. Write an essay comparing the movie version to the book.
I recently went and watched the Twilight movei. And I have also read the book. As I watched the movie, I saw many things in the movie that were just like the book, and manyt things that were totally different from the book.
Like for one thing, The beginning of the movie didn't start out the same way that the beginning of the movie did. In the movie, Bella met Mike at like the lunch table, when in the book she met him after Biology class, because she took a while getting her stuff together, and Mike stayed after to help walk her to her next class (which they had together and it was P.E)
In speaking of P.E. The movie never really showed a lot of P.E time in there. Wher in the book it mentioned a lot about it. Bella never really did anything in P.E because she is very clumsy, and I also noticed in the movie, that they didn't really focus a lot on her clumsiness, when in the book it is a BIG deal, especially to Bella and Edward.
One thing that I REALLY liked, that was in both the movie and in the book was the first few Biology classes with Bella and Edward. I liked the way how it described the tension between them. With Edward clenching his fists and sitting as far away from Bella as possible. I about died lauging when I saw that part in the movie. They did a really good job of making that look very awkward between Bella and Edward.
The scene at the La Push was very different. For one, in the book it said that it was very sunny when it first began and it wasn't very cold outside. In the movie, it was very cloudy and everyone had coats on and stuff, so that gave it the illusion that it was cold in the movie. Also in the book at La Push. They said that they were like sitting around a fire (or that was what i pictured it as in my head) and in the movie pretty much everyone just had their trucks and cars parked near each other and they just sat in the seats with the doors open. Also at La Push, in the movie, it did not show Bella going for a walk with everyone and falling down and scraping herself. That did happen in the book though.
In the movie, Bella and I think the whole school, im not completely sure on who all went but I do know that Bella's whole Biology class went and Rosalie, Alice and Edward went. There might of been more of the Cullen family there but I'm not all the way sure. But they went on a field trip to like a green house i think it was. It had something to do with plants. And Bella walked with Edward most of the time and she was asking him personal questions (Bella does ask A LOT of personal questions in the book) but on their way back to the school, Alice asks Bella if she wants to ride the bus back with them, and Rosalie says that she can't. Well, this scene in the movie was never in the book. I liked that scene, I didn't think there was anything bad about it, it didn't like completely change the story line but it just wasn't in the book.
In the last paragraph I told you about something that the movie added that wasn't in the book. Now I'm going to describe something that I thought was very important (well not like deadly important, but i thought it is a good thing for you to realize like why he did a few things that he did in this part)In the book the author descibes Bella and Edward are talking at lunch (this is before she finds out that he is a vampire) and Edward said that he is skipping Biology class. And it just so happens that they do blood testing on that day. Well, Bella gets sick at the sight of blood, and when someone pricked their finger she got all pale and stuff, and almost passed out. Then the teacher asked Mike to take her to the nurses station (now that i finished reading all of the book it is a VERY good thing that Bella had not pricked her finger yet) But then about half way there Edward comes and takes her the rest of the way to the nurses station and sits with her for a while. Well, anyways, they totally took that whole scene out of the movie.
Even though the movie and the book both had a lot of differnet things, I still really like both of them. (the movie was especially good cause you got to SEE what edward, and Emment, and everyone else looked like. I do believe that the casting crew did a very good job of picking VERY pretty people to play the roles. (Alice was a little different then what I had in mind but that is ok)
So, all in all, the book and the movie do have a lot of the same things in the movie as the book, and there are also a lot of different things. But all in all, i really liked both of them. I thin that Stephanie did a really good job of writing the book, and the writers, castors, actors, and other people involved did a really good job of putting on the movie. I can honestly say that I was not disspointed in the movie as compared to the book.
