Friday, December 10, 2010

Of Mice and Men Part 4

I just watched the movie Of Mice and Men, and I have to say, it's very similar to the book. First, let's talk about the book. We start out with our main characters, Lennie and George walking down a dirt road to a ranch to work at. They spend the night in the forest, talking about "Living of the fatta' the lan'". They show up to the ranch the next day and get to work. Later that day, George tells Slim what happened in Weed. I'm skipping a lot of the details to try and make this short. The day after that, Lennie gets into a short fight with Curly and Curly loses. The day after that, Lennie accidentally killed Curley's wife and hid in the brush. Sadly, at the end, George had to kill Lennie.

Now, the movie starts out with a woman in a torn red dress running, yelling for help. Lennie and George hid in a ditch until sundown where they hopped a train away from Weed. This must have been what happened in Weed. They took a bus to Soledad, where they got off and they had to walk ten miles to the ranch to work at. They stopped a little ways away and camped out for a night. Then they went to the ranch the very next day. The rest of the Movie is pretty much the same as the book, but some minor differences. For example, in the end of the book when George killed Lennie, Slim ran over to George and aided him. In the movie, George killed Lennie. The end. Also, The movie pretty much ripped the script from the book, but without a few lines of the dialogue. So, to sum it up, the movie IS the book. If you're going to watch the movie before reading the book, okay. It's the same thing, but with moving pictures.

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