The Pedestrian Movie And Book Comparison

Ray Bradbury's “The Pedestrian” and Alan Bollinger's film had a change in theme. The PBS article discusses changes between film and written short stories. Such as 1st and 3rd person, also how movies usually don't have a narrator and books do. The most significant difference is visual perception, such as how we read the words “Chair” and picture a chair in our mind. Where in movies or films we see a chair and think nothing of it. Another example of change is when films cannot show a certain scene or can't afford to do a scene so they skip or change the entire scene.

I believe that the additions to the film changed the theme but it made the theme better by changing it from a hopeless future to a hopeful future. This is important to the film and the short story because it sends a better message about what our future could be like. I also believe that it is important that Bradbury not only signed off on the final version of the film but also said that it was better than the original version because it shows that so additions can make a film better than the book which is very difficult to do many novels or short stories. I believe that the most important lesson to be learn from the short story and film the pedestrian is that you should spend sometime outside and not be so addicted to technology. Which is a

“ To enter out into that silence that was the city at eight o’clock of a misty evening in November, to put your feet upon that buckling concrete walk, to step over grassy seams and make your way , hands in pockets, through the silences, that was what Mr. Leonard Mead most dearly loved to do.” Using the description of setting, such as the misty evening and the sensory details, Bradbury shows Mr. Mead does not always stay inside like others. “... The cottages and homes with their dark windows.” helps give details about how others houses look. “The cement was vanishing under flowers and grass.” Bradbury uses details of the setting to show the only one who has walked over this area in a while is Mr.Mead.

A very important similarity between the stories, is that they both are in the view point of a Union soldier in the nineteenth century, during the civil war. The similarities between these two books combine the ideals of battle and war, also the resemblances show how alike the two protagonists of the stories are.

The settings in the two stories are similar in the way that they both take place in a small town with a sense of poverty. The adults are portrayed as authoritative and the narrators feel trapped.

Whenever books are adapted for film, changes inevitably have to be made. The medium of film offers several advantages and disadvantages over the book: it is not as adept at exploring the inner workings of people - it cannot explore their minds so easily; however, the added visual and audio capabilities of film open whole new areas of the imagination which, in the hands of a competent writer-director, can more than compensate.

The difference between the developing way of books and movies is magnificently huge because the way of emotion transmitting is different; the movie is based on vision, while the book is based on words.

For instance, the book talks about how the greasers felt and how their feelings were, then in the movie, it didnt talk about it but it showed it. The way that they showed it was not as good as it was written. When reading we don't fall in love with the characters' appearance. We fall in love with their words, their thoughts, and their hearts. We fall in love with their soul. In movies we focus more on appearance and what's going on in the background, which then gets people distracted from what the character is feeling and their thoughts. On the other hand, you can see the actions of the characters in the movie, which might help you process the way they act, however with the book the author can use what he thinks and try to give people a general idea of everything. For an example in the book it talks about how Randy

In Ray Bradbury's works " Fahrenheit 451" and "The Pedestrian", both the individual and the society are affected by dystopian traits, such as brainwashing and implementation of ideologies, general ignorance throughout the society, and a severe lack of individuality.

In the story Fahrenheit 451 and “The Pedestrian” the futuristic technology used is more of a problem than a benefit because more and more people are becoming “addicted” to technology instead of focusing on more important things. In the story Fahrenheit 451 it states, “I rarely watch the ‘parlor walls’ or go to races or Fun Parks. So I’ve lots of time for crazy thoughts ” (Bradbury 13). Some people are so ‘obsessed’ or into doing more things with technology, like racing or watching TV. This deprives them of the information or lessons you could learn in things like books. Also for example in Fahrenheit 451 it says, “My uncle was arrested another time--did I tell you?--for being a pedestrian” (Bradbury 13). Now not only are people being arrested

The 2 stories are similar as they use the same systems of a lack of freedom, and by using science fiction elements to show a theme that society can change for the worst. For example, in “Harrison Bergeron”, it is directly stated that “George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental

A difference from the movie and the text are the daydreaming, in the movie walter daydreams about amazing adventures but he is having an adventure in real life and travels to many places like iceland. In the short story walter daydreams about being away from his wife and having adventures. A similarity from the movie and the story is that they both try to escape their reality. In the movie walter tries to escape his reality by fantasising about talking to a girl that he is to shy

Behind every great movie, comes a storyline that is derived from a book however, most of the books to the movies have a great number of deviations. The screenwriters and other staff members to include the director come up with these deviations to enhance the plot in the attempt to make it a more interesting film to which in turn can make a better profit. The majority of differences that is found in films main objective is to enhance the mind. For example, when a scene has the ability to get a particular feeling out of a viewer, it is imperative to be able to understand the reasons for those feelings. The dialog and the visual effects of a scene sets a tone that differs from that of the book that it was taken from. Also, screen writers and

In recent years, it has become popular for many of America's great literary masterpieces to be adapted into film versions. As easy a task as it may sound, there are many problems that can arise from trying to adapt a book into a movie, being that the written word is what makes the novel a literary work of art. Many times, it is hard to express the written word on camera because the words that express so much action and feeling can not always be expressed the same way through pictures and acting. One example of this can be found in the comparison of Ken Kesey's novel, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and the film version directed in 1975 by Milos Forman.

Another similarity would be the characters in both stories. They are faced with the hard reality as they come to find out they weren't living in