After watching the movie Persepolis, I realized again how much I liked the book. Like I said in class before, the movie was a lot choppier than the actual novel and made me feel a bigger distance from Marji. I also feel like the movie went through the whole story too quickly, which again did not allow me to connect with the piece. The book, on the other hand, allows you the time to actually feel sorry for Marji and her experiences instead of just plowing through to the next scene. I also like how the book was organized because the flashback held no purpase for me. It just showed her annowed and smoking in the airport. This made me not like her before I even saw her story and marked her as a pessimist. Not the way I would like the main character of the movie to be introduced.
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I have to agree about the choppiness being more drastic but i would not hold it against the movie. I mean you don't have as much time in a movie as you do a book to tell a story. With that limitation in mind i thought it did well at trying to pick out the more important aspects of the book and how they depicted it.
ReplyDeleteI don't agree... I think that you are right in saying that you don't have as much time in the movie but that's why you have to pick the most important parts to make the story move along. I think that they included some insignificant parts and left out some important parts. I'm glad we have the opportunity to write that extra credit paper on it because there are so many differences.
ReplyDeleteI have to agree that the movie was more choppy mainly because when it came to the movie I felt like that director was not able to include all the details that the book had. I don't blame the movie for this because you can only include a limited number of details in such a short amount of time but it is still a little more diffcult to follow.
ReplyDeleteThe movie will always be shorter than book. There's nothing to be done about that. So the movie had an excuse for being more choppy, but the book I felt that author could have done something to connect the choppy pieces together. So, I didn't like the book more than the movie. I do agree with you on the part where Marji starts out the movie in airport smoking. Made me feel that she's just someone who hates live; makes me don't wanna care about what her past is like.
ReplyDeleteYou make some really good points although I have to disagree with you in that I liked the movie better. The book was very detailed and did connect with the reader in more ways than the movie did however, it was a lot more complex than the movie too. I found myself questioning the text a lot; I don't mind being an "active" reader and participating in the text but I kind of felt like this particular story expected a lot more from the reader than usual. I really liked how simple and straight forward the movie was and the music was another thing I really liked about it. It set the tone really well for the different scenes throughout the movie.
ReplyDeleteI really like the movie a lot more than the book. The book just didn't work for me. The movie was more creative and I think I was just interested in seeing the movie creators pull of making a movie that's almost identical to the book. Maybe I like the movie more because they made it work. I think that it is interesting though that even thought the movie has the same images from the book, how I still felt like the movie was meant for a larger audience.
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