Storytelling has been a part of people's’ lives since the beginning of time. It started with just verbal communication, then it was translated into written word, and now there hundreds of ways to tell those same stories. Movies and books, for example, are two very different ways to tell stories to an audience. A story can be a book, but not a movie or vice versa. Many books are made into movies, but lose major elements in translation. One of these examples is in A Raisin in the Sun. It was originally a play written by Lorraine Hansberry, in 1957, but became a movie in 1961 and then remade in 2008, which was directed by Kenny Leon. While the play and the movie follow the same storyline, there are many elements of the play that got added when …show more content…
In the movie there were many different settings compared to the one setting in the play. The film adaptation of A Raisin in the Sun takes the viewer to various settings such as the Younger family apartment, the Green Hat bar, Mama’s workplace, the street, the market, the hair salon, and the Younger’s new home. Each of these locations are mentioned in the play, but there were never any scenes set in those locations. In the play A Raisin in the Sun, everything happens in the living room or kitchen. “The YOUNGER living room would be a comfortable and well-ordered room if it were not for a number of indestructible contradictions to this state of being” (23 Hansberry). The closest that the play gets to leaving the living room and kitchen setting is walking out the door into the hall or yelling out the window. “(TRAVIS appears in the hall doorway, almost fully dressed and quite wide awake now, his towels and pajamas across his shoulders. He opens the door and signals for his father to make the bathroom in a hurry)” (27 Hansberry). The two different versions of the same story differ because of the settings that they each have. While the movie has many locations it strays from the original play that only had one location. The director of the movie might have added locations to make the visuals more interesting. When a movie is set in only one space it can become boring for the viewer. Therefore, …show more content…
The movie follows the same storyline as the play, but it puts major scenes in different locations than what was originally written in the play. One major part of the story is when Lena (Mama) gives Walter the remaining money from the insurance check. In the movie this happens in The Green Hat bar. In contrast, this moment happens in the apartment in the play version. “(She goes out, and WALTER sits looking at the money on the table. Finally, in a decisive gesture, he gets up, and, in mingled joy and desperation, picks up the money...)” (107 Hansberry). Additionally the movie strays from the play in setting when Willy tells Walter the news that the money is gone. In the movie Willy tells Walter the heartbreaking news outside of the apartment rather than in the apartment like the play (124-128 Hansberry). These major scenes from the story that take place in different settings give the moments different meanings. When in the apartment the scenes show the struggles the family faces together. When these situations happen outside of the apartment is makes them seem more like individual journeys or hardships. Leon, the director of the movie might have chose to put major scenes in different locations to make them seem more important. When an entire story takes place in one setting it can be hard to differentiate what is
One of the similarities between the movie and the book of “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” are the settings. In both the movie and book, the story takes place in a garden in Sangli, India. Not only does the story take place in the garden, it takes place in the bungalow. Throughout the short stories, every event takes place in at least one of these locations.
The PBS article on the film adaptation discusses the difference between written text and the film and the struggle of adapting a book into a movie. The major difference between books and the film is that the visual images stimulate our perceptions directly while written words do this indirectly. Film is also very limited, film must cut out certain events that happened in a book to make it fit into a two or three hour movie. The filmmaker of a movie must build off their own material and choose and change things. For example, “the meaning of a novel is only controlled by one person, the author, while the meaning we get from a film is the result of a collaborative effort” (PBS).
the visit shocks the boy with its banality, with the utterly ordinary "quiet sound of madness." At the end of the story, father and son stop at a speakeasy for sausage and beer. Food is there, and cheerful noise, and the warmth of the bar after multiple images of freezing cold. The most important setting, in this case is the cold. Is repeatedly mention in the story which has been replaced by comforting
During the story the author explains how their living quarters are very isolated and lonely and how they lived in one of theplaces in the world in the father 's opinion of course. The quote proving this is “‘ Of all the beastly, slushy, out-of-the-way places to live in, this is the worst. Pathways a bog, and the road’s a torrent. I don’t know what people are thinking about. I suppose Because only two houses are let, they think it doesn’t matter’”
Both characters try to reach their dreams by moving their families and responsibility aside. For example, Walter Lee dreams of opening a liquor store, so to reach his dreams he took his family is money trying to act like a man but then that money was stolen by his friend Willy
money. Mama, Walter’s mother and the head of the house, is put in the play to display family is greater than money. When the plot takes a direction change and the family receives insurance money from Mama’s dead husband, the attitude in the household shifts. Always being a family oriented woman, Mama, even with ten thousand dollars is still sad that her husband isn’t there to share the great fortune with him. This clearly displays Mama’s core values and why Lorraine Hansberry put her in the play to show these
The play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry debuted on Broadway in 1959, and the movie was made in 2008. “A Raisin in the Sun” is about the Younger family, the fifth generation of lower-class African-Americans living in Chicago’s Southside. They are faced with problems such as racial discrimination, poverty, and conflicting dreams. As the family decides on how to spend the insurance check of $10,000 from Walter’s father’s death, these problems cause many conflicts to rise. Reading the 1959 play and the 2008 movie, I have realized certain similarities and differences in how the story plays out.
Lenny Abrahamson’s drama film Room follows Joy and her five-year-old son Jack and their experiences of living in a tiny room with only so much space. Throughout the film, both aspects of low-key lighting and high-key lighting are filmed in various scenes. These lighting styles indicate both the rough and unstable atmosphere of living in just one small room as well as the freedom of escaping the small room and starting a new chapter in their lives. In addition, both lighting styles also play an important role in the film’s plot and set the mood for the plot by either adding suspense or relief. Room narrates the story of Joy and her son Jack’s lives as they are trapped in a very small shelter that they refer to as Room.
We are in the suburb New Canaan north of New York, where we find the pretty environment, the educated people and a hidden emptiness. Here we find the nuclear family, with mom, dad, most likely 2 beautiful kids and the traditional pattern, with mom at home and with dad commuting to his job in the city. The interactions between the characters in the film are somehow rebellious - the parents cheat and the kids are exploring way unacceptable limits. This reflects the similarity and the empty room in the suburbs and the traditional patterns.
Film and written literature have often gone hand in hand. Written literature has often served as an inspiration for film. Directors often make movie adaptations of books and people who have read the book will often criticize the movie for lacking important detail covered in the book. Film, depending on many factors can often be better than the book, or at least do it justice. Since the conception of film many have argued that written literature will be obsolete.
Family is important to everyone in some way because family sticks together no matter what. The play A Raisin in the Sun is about a black family named the Youngers and the hardships they face together as a family. In A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, Ruth Younger is motivated by her family. This is shown by Ruth wanting to make her family happy, her working even though she is tired, and later when Ruth finds out there is going to be another mouth to feed. Ruth Younger is constantly worrying about her family’s well being and happiness for them.
The quote “In our stuck-in-the-sixties kitchen, complete with vomit green walls, Ty grimaced at one of Dad’s lame jokes.”(135) unfolds the look of the setting in such a way that provides the reader with the old-fashioned tone and is worded in such a way that it almost sounds like a real location. Whenever a new setting is introduced in this novel, it is always represented in a very descriptive and lifelike
The White’s house was the setting but seems different in each of the three parts because the mood gets lower and the feel of the house seems worse each time. “Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of Laburnam Villa
So a lot of small details from the book have to be cut. Also the movie has to rearrange the events in the book in a way that it is interesting for the spectator to watch. Sometimes books jump in time and use different literary methods that have to be changed when adapted to movies because they can slow or interrupt the rhythm of the movie.
E.M. Forster, sets the scene for his novel, A Room With A View, in two significant places. The first half of the story is set in Florence, Italy in which the main character, Lucy Honeychurch, has freedom to explore the city and interact with many types of people. The second half of the story is set in England. In England Lucy does not have much freedom because of the social hierarchy and restrictions of the time period. Forster uses these two settings in order to create two very different places, represent two ways of life , and create a deeper level of meaning in the work.