Monday, November 16, 2009
POV A Worn Path
I think that watching the movie version of "A Worn Path" hurt the point of view originally presented in the story. In the book version, we start off o a journey with an old black lady who is going on a journey into town to get some medicine for her assumed to be alive grandson. We get to walk with this lady and hear all her thoughts, as she pretty much says them aloud. In the book we get to read what she thinks when she passes certain areas and sees certain things. I do not fell like the movie version did this justice. In the movie, the old black lady definitely says almost the exact same things that are in the book, but her movements are a little different and her mannerisms, or at least different from how I imagined they would be. When she encounters the hunter in the book, you get a sense of how she feels toward this man and how she feels. Not necessarily by what she says, but how the author describes her movement. Maybe I am just being too hard on the movie version. I feel like it is really hard to do a good book justice in movie form. It is just really hard to capture, or at least I belive it is, the way a book can make you feel versus a movie because with a book you can personalize it. You can make the characters almost your own and imagine, based on reading, what they would look like and how they would be. Needless to say, I liked the book version much more than I liked the movie version of "A Worn Path."
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