Differences In Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window

Even though the book and movie and the movie have similarities they also have lots of differences

The movie and the novel are both taking place during the holocaust where father/son relationships are exposed. Even though the story lines are the same, there are different outcomes. Different perspectives are portrayed

Another difference is that in the movie they go into town, but in the book it 's never mentioned. Something else that was different was that in the book the mood was happy most of the time, while in the movie the mood was sad. A difference between the book and the movie is that in the book momma was going to burn Byron, but in the movie she does not burn him. A big difference is that in the

In the short story “The Landlady,” by Roald Dahl and the short film, “Tales of the Unexpected” series, Billy Weaver goes to Bath, England where he meets an old landlady. Screenwriters change an author's work because they want to expand their ideas from a book into a movie. In both the story and short film there are many similarities to be found. For example, the story and short film the characters motives are the same.

The first difference that I have immediately noticed is that the story starts out in the middle at Frank’s funeral, but the movie starts out in a field. Another difference in the movie is the absence of Frank's sister, Cathleen and older brother, Steve who we read about in the story. " Next day Steve drove with his wife back to Baltimore where he managed the branch office of a bank, and Cathleen, the middle child, drove with her husband back to Syracuse." (p. 80) Moreover, in both versions the characters have different jobs, for example Matt owns a store in the story.

Many books have been used as the basis for motion pictures. According to John Harrington one third of all movies ever made were adapted from novels. The transition of any piece of literature into a film generates a lot of discussion, positive and negative, that provides a basis for comparison between these two media. Using the cliché 'the book is always better than the film ' prevents making meaningful comparisons because the cliché assumes that the 'language ' system of literature is deeper or more complex than that of film. However, both books and films narrate stories.

Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window has several themes. One major theme is relationships. The lead character, Jeff Jeffries, a photographer and committed bachelor, is involved in a relationship with Lisa Fremont, a model, although the relationship has some tension due to Jeff’s lack of commitment. When Jeff is confined to his apartment recovering from a broken leg, he begins spying through his rear window on his neighbors in a nearby apartment. Through her frequent visits, Lisa is drawn into this spying as well.

Using the photographs to develop a mood for the scene is another unique craft technique the author used often in the novel that helps readers better comprehend the

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.

By having a shot like this, we as an audience start to get this uneasy feeling about him. Then this shot is followed by multiple close up shots between Hannibal Lector and Clarice. As we see in the shot, Hannibal Lector begins to show how manipulative and dominating he can be. When we see Clarice, we see the camera at a higher angle to show that she is inferior to him and vulnerable. They also made another point of view shot through Buffalo Bill.

For example, during the book burning scene, a variety of high to mid-low shots are used to position the audience in the crowd or as one of the speakers up front. In addition, the way the objects in the scene are positioned and the frame are composed creates an intimidating effect. All the large Nazi flags are positioned symmetrically around the town square, yet the camera is framed slightly off centre, making the whole shot feel off and like something is wrong [Fig. 5]. This certainly shows that Percival utilizes Percival employs cinematic techniques such as camera angles and the framing of the shots used to communicate and allow the audience to explore the power of the human spirit when dealing with adversity in his film The Book

This creates a connection between the viewer and the characters in the film. In Lost in Translation, this technique is used to show the growth of these characters emotionally as they interact throughout the film. This is seen when the two characters just looked at each other as they sat in the hallway without talking to each other. In such a way, it shows the emptiness and loneliness in their

The amalgamation of the close shots with their small time-span makes the sequence feel more personal or emotional than it would have been if the same scene were extant alone or in a wider angle, a case in point of the method Hitchcock described as "transferring the menace from the screen into the mind of the

In the last part of the clip where Ron Weasley and Harry Potter set foot on Hogwarts for the first time, the audience anticipate the nervousness of the characters most of whom are not familiar with this place at all and setting an agitated overall atmosphere by creating a feeling of anxiousness on the audience. First of all, mid-shot combined with two-shot which focuses on Ron Weasley and Harry Potter, is used to depict the isolation of two from other children. Also, in this footage revealing that Harry is the only one with glasses the idea occurs in the mind of audience at the start that Harry is a special boy and different from the rest is supported and it causes audience to sympathise with him. Beside emphasising the otherness of

The most prominent similarity was the fact that Liesel still adored to steal and read books. Without this trait, this would be an entirely different book. The two most salient differences between the book and movie were the fact that Max Vandenburg didn’t give Liesel and books and that Death didn’t give any, or almost any, comments and narrations. Without these, there are noticeable differences between the film adaptation and book. All in all, I prefered the book better.