Kite runner book vs movie

The Kite Runner Rough Informal?

“The Kite Runner” is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). There is a discreetly shot if entirely unnecessary scene of a child’s rape and an extended bloody fight involving punches and a slingshot.

Intro

The Kite Runner movie was way better than the book from mine and everyone’s opinion, I can prove this throughout my essay if you can follow along as I blabber on. I’m not a very strong reader and I have troubles staying on task or keeping the train of thought flowing, so reading the book The Kite Runner by that Afghan didn’t really get my attention, I tried to follow it as best as I could but it just compare to the movie through the visual aspects that you actually experience with your own eyes! Through a television of course. The movie displayed many differences than I read in the book and showed a lot more horrifying scenes that I just couldn’t picture in my head, but they came very clear on the high definition projector. The way Hassan was walking as blood was just dripping from his you know where, Amir getting beat to smithereens by Assef in the embassy when they are old men and Amir is coming back to save Sohrab. Most movies don’t give the book justice but in this one called the Kite Runner it most definitely did! It portrays an amazing picture of Afghanistan, Amir and Baba’s home as well as images that I didn’t get of certain or most characters. The screen play revealed more emotions then I could get out of the book in a way that I couldn’t understand or tell what Baba’s tone was when he was talking to Amir or Hassan or anyone for that matter and the movie obviously revealed that perfectly.

Main

Yes people do and did call it a simple read but it was just too much information needed to tell the story that the author was trying to get across. I couldn’t comprehend all that and remember to keep it all together as I read throughout the entire 500 page book, yes I do have a bad memory and maybe you have a great one but this is my essay. The movie had a way shorter and more creative affect with the way they changed it up, not completely but definitely enough for me to love the book over the movie, just a few bits were different here and there however I do mean different in a good way. Now that I’ve given it some thoughts, I think the lack of the intimacy which the book so successfully delivers can be compensated on screen by a narrative voice-over. The personal narrative of the book is what makes the story poignant and moving.

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The film could benefit from a first person narrative to draw viewers closer and to convey more effectively the hidden turmoil’s that can’t be expressed cinematically, or technically. A well written narrative voice-over could impact the audience, show a different perspective, and can completely change the story. Certain topics in the story such as the very descriptive rape scene in the book where it creates little emotion and in the amazing movie The Kite Runner shows Hassan the little Hazara boy in the alley way cornered by three boys which gives you a very strong images especially when the boy undoes his pants then you can’t see the actual rape seem, thank god but just when you hope it’s over, it cuts to a new scene of Hassan walking back home and blood dripping from his you know where, leaving a red trail in the shiny white snow. As well as the scene when Amir is trying to go and grab Sohrab the violence and shootingand special effects do so things that sound really good in books sometimes look quite ridiculous in movies. However, my imagination is limited by my sense of reality and so when a book has a car crash I see a little ding and a bit of broken glass, where as a movie will usually just blow the car up in a spectacular show of carnage. Logically I know the car probably wouldn’t blow up but watching it on the screen I can go with it. Reading about it, I will usually tone it down.

Main

The vast land of Afghanistan is a spectacular beauty that stuns most foreigners who visit primed to expect violence, suffering and terrible poverty, because that is mostly what gets on televisions and makes headlines. It was not always that way. Before the decades of fighting that have ripped the country apart, it was a well-known if rather exotic stop on the 1960s tourist trail. Snowcapped mountains, relics from empires thousands of years old, deserts and lush valleys lured hippies in long-distance buses and richer visitors on the (Pan Am-owned) national airline. Before I said that about Afghanistan you probably thought of poverty or maybe just a less lucky place more of a third world environment and it’s kind of alright because got the same though from the book however the movie has such a strong image portrayal in a way of being able for the viewers (you and I) to see how the city actually is compared to the book where again you have to visualize what the city looks like. Same with Baba’s house and the courtyard, the movie shows it completely better in a way that I thought it would look like a more poverty looking kind of place, but it is actually a very nice house enclosed by a beautiful stone wall for security and privacy.

Conclusion

Visually movies are more appealing. To many people a page of text is daunting and dull and they are automatically locked out from accessing the story. You know the music that plays as one particular character comes on screen. It tells us the bad guy is coming or that the hero is entering the fray and whether we like it or not it gives us a slight emotional charge that just isn’t there when you read it in a book. If you want the perfect example of this, watch Star Wars. Luke Skywalker comes on screen, cue either the wistful music or the hero music. Stories are more accessible to a larger number of people in movie form than as books. Overall the movie is an adequate adaptation of the book, as a nominee for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the Golden Globes this year, hopefully, it can draw viewers’ interest to dig deeper into the profound story.