Lyddie Comparing And Contrasting Book To Film
Submitted by vantizzle on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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Lyddie Comparing And Contrasting Book To Film
Lyddie: Comparing and Contrasting Book to Film
Rarely does a good book turned to film become successful. Books sometime capture the reader's inner-feelings and thoughts, whereas a movie is merely a moving picture on the screen, giving the viewer little time to think about what they are taking in. Lyddie, the novel, is told in the third person, but there is a lot of interaction between Lyddie and her conscience. A kind of Lyddie/reader relationship is developed as many of Lyddie's thoughts are written, giving the reader a good look at how Lyddie feels about the major and minor characters around her as the main and sub-plots move forward with the story.
In Lyddie the film, the viewer just watches Lyddie and what she does throughout the story. In my opinion, the book was not very interesting, but suprisingly, neither was the video, nor was it more exciting than the book, which is unusual for a film. Out of the two, film is the most appealing to the human brain because it does not require as much thinking as reading.
The book, Lyddie, has a lot more room for detaail. For example: Triphena was a definate minor character and Lyddie's time at the tavern was a clear sub-plot. In the film, Lyddie stays at the tavern for less than a day and then leaves for a town called Cornwall, subsituted for Lowell the successful, non-fiction mill town during the late 1800s. Supposedly over the time of Lyddie and Charlie being seperated by work, the book says that Charlie grew a good amount taller than he was originally at the beginning of the book; in the film, he stays the exact same.
In the film, there are a number of noticable changes with the sub-plots made from the book. For instance, the very beginning, the scene where Lyddie "faces down the bear" was not the very beginning, but a scene or two after the opening.
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