Thursday, February 18, 2010

Not Easily Broken (The Movie)

Movie Summary

The Movie opens up with a voice over through the marriage of Clarice and David. Even though we can hear faint sounds of people talking and music, David's voice was the one talking over the whole marriage. In the book, it started off directly at the accident scene then took us back to how the whole thing happened but in the movie, it started at the wedding and then let us meet all the characters then the accident scene happened. The movie cut out the parts where they were taking Clarice out of the car and the boy that hit them, the scene was short, the accident happened then the showed the ambulance coming then they went straight to the hospital. Just like in the book, the movie focuses on Dave's prospective of the marriage. But the book also highlights Julie Sawyer's life with her son and the movie cuts down on some of that and focuses more on Julie's relationship with Dave. There were a lot of birds eye view of the street with cars on the highway. There was also a character cut out of the movie that was in the book, Dr.Carmen McAtee, instead of the couple going to Dr. McAtee , they just went to talk to their Bishop, Bishop G.A. Wilkes. At the end of the movie, there was a tracking shot that lead to the sky. The music was also based on the event, when there was a funeral, they had really sad music and at the end of the movie, there was every happy music because the couple ended up working it out.

1 comment:

  1. interested in the bird's eye shot, is this the view of "God" watching the characters?

    so the film starts happier than the book which launches right into the accident

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