Friday, November 17, 2017
The “Awkward” Book Blog 11/16
The book Awkward by Svetlana Chmakova is an amazing Realistic Fiction/Cartoon Graphic novel. It is a book about a kid named Penelope Torres, an artist in the art club who has an incident with a lonely, smart, shy kid named Jaime Thompson. They had an awkward situation of Penelope tripping in the Hall, and Jaime trying to help her pick up her things but, she pushes him away and the rest of the story is most of that storyline with the Ethel of more conflicts within her life. My Favorite part of the book is where the students go on a field trip to a museum and have a giant scavenger hunt throughout the museum and it’s a really cool bonding experience with the characters and it’s also an intense moment in the book. There are some mature topics in the book but I’m sure you as a reader can handle them. All over there is a fun, colorful book with a few conflicts, not that long/hard of a book and just a fun read. Hopefully you as the reader will check this book out and enjoy it as much as I did.
Friday, November 3, 2017
Outsiders Book/Movie comparison
Differences between the Book and movie:
There were Quite a few differences in the movie compared to the book. The first difference I noticed is that the drive-in scene happened in chapter 2 of the book but it happened really early in the movie, that scene happened within the first 5 minutes of the movie. Another scene that was different is that Ponyboy was supposed to be smacked like in the book but instead in the movie, he was pushed which I felt if he was smacked it would have changed the whole mood of the movie. Also in the novel of course everything took time to develop and every person was well detailed and introduced but in the movie they barely gave any introduction at all to any of the characters and when they met a character you had to wait until the character's name was said until you could recognize them. Another major difference was that all the characters were barely given screen-time and only the major characters were really showed in the movie. No one was also really escribed and really introduced which bothered me and the movie could have been longer, it was really short in my opinion. Another scene that was different from the novel was that the photographer scene never happened, the photos they took for the newspaper, that scene never happened in the movie which kind of bothered me. It could have been a somewhat important scene in the movie because it shows them being recognized for what they did. Finally, johnny’s mom never yelled at the greasers. That would have also been a really funny scene in my opinion and it would have shown how his mom really felt about the kids.
Similarities between the Book and Movie:
There quite a few similarities from the book to movie because most stuff need to be pretty accurate. For starters, the beginning of the book literally started off the same way the book started off with Ponyboy saying, “When I stepped out into the Bright light.” Which is the exactly like the book to movie. Another similarity is Jonny killing the soc, that scene was pretty accurate. Ponyboy being drowned and then him passing out then johnny killing the soc and the pony throwing up. The poem scene is also the same as it is in the book, kind of how I imagined it in my head but that scene was pretty exact which is felt is a good thing because it was a pretty important part in the book. The dairy queen scene was also pretty accurate in the movie and it kind of had to be because it was a super important scene in the book where we find out that cherry is a spy. The “Stay a Gold” quote from Johnny’s letter to pony is also of course another super duper major part in the story because it's sad and tells Ponyboy to stay true from someone who means a lot to him.
Evaluation of the director and actors:
So I thought overall, the movie was pretty darn amazing. It just bothered me that the scenes were rushed and none of the characters were fully introduced and I also feel the movie was really short, it could have been much longer and everyone would have still loved it. Some of the actors I really couldn’t picture in the roles though, it was weird to see Tom Cruise act all crazy and kind of weird compared to the spy and action movies he does. Rob Lowe was also kind of weird because he's so tall and slender which kind of fit the character but was just weird in my opinion. But overall I thought all the actors did well in their roles and it was a great book to film adaptation.
There were Quite a few differences in the movie compared to the book. The first difference I noticed is that the drive-in scene happened in chapter 2 of the book but it happened really early in the movie, that scene happened within the first 5 minutes of the movie. Another scene that was different is that Ponyboy was supposed to be smacked like in the book but instead in the movie, he was pushed which I felt if he was smacked it would have changed the whole mood of the movie. Also in the novel of course everything took time to develop and every person was well detailed and introduced but in the movie they barely gave any introduction at all to any of the characters and when they met a character you had to wait until the character's name was said until you could recognize them. Another major difference was that all the characters were barely given screen-time and only the major characters were really showed in the movie. No one was also really escribed and really introduced which bothered me and the movie could have been longer, it was really short in my opinion. Another scene that was different from the novel was that the photographer scene never happened, the photos they took for the newspaper, that scene never happened in the movie which kind of bothered me. It could have been a somewhat important scene in the movie because it shows them being recognized for what they did. Finally, johnny’s mom never yelled at the greasers. That would have also been a really funny scene in my opinion and it would have shown how his mom really felt about the kids.
Similarities between the Book and Movie:
There quite a few similarities from the book to movie because most stuff need to be pretty accurate. For starters, the beginning of the book literally started off the same way the book started off with Ponyboy saying, “When I stepped out into the Bright light.” Which is the exactly like the book to movie. Another similarity is Jonny killing the soc, that scene was pretty accurate. Ponyboy being drowned and then him passing out then johnny killing the soc and the pony throwing up. The poem scene is also the same as it is in the book, kind of how I imagined it in my head but that scene was pretty exact which is felt is a good thing because it was a pretty important part in the book. The dairy queen scene was also pretty accurate in the movie and it kind of had to be because it was a super important scene in the book where we find out that cherry is a spy. The “Stay a Gold” quote from Johnny’s letter to pony is also of course another super duper major part in the story because it's sad and tells Ponyboy to stay true from someone who means a lot to him.
Evaluation of the director and actors:
So I thought overall, the movie was pretty darn amazing. It just bothered me that the scenes were rushed and none of the characters were fully introduced and I also feel the movie was really short, it could have been much longer and everyone would have still loved it. Some of the actors I really couldn’t picture in the roles though, it was weird to see Tom Cruise act all crazy and kind of weird compared to the spy and action movies he does. Rob Lowe was also kind of weird because he's so tall and slender which kind of fit the character but was just weird in my opinion. But overall I thought all the actors did well in their roles and it was a great book to film adaptation.
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