On The Road Book Vs Movie Essay
Similarities and Differences in Characters Vs. Actors In the novel and film On the Road by Jack Kerouac, the choice of actors to play the major roles, especially that of the narrator Sal Paradise, was bad in that it was way off base from Kerouac’s book. Why does the choice of actors significantly differ from how they are portrayed in the novel? Because Jack Kerouac had written the novel so long ago that he did not have the knowledge or wording to explain or show how they are portrayed in the film since it was made this last year. To start off with, the character in the novel Sal Paradise is a writer who wishes to travel the American continent to seek inspiration for his novels. Sal is a reserved, shy character who is attracted to the wild Dean Moriarty. Sal envies madness in others but is unable to
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She is also known as Dean’s first wife. She understands Dean and their relationship well. Marylou sees Dean’s madness, saying that she loves him dearly yet cannot have him because he is too wild for her. Similar to Dean, she is sexually lecherous and sleeps with one man to the next, even lusting after Sal. However, after many break ups and fights with Dean, she ends up marrying an old auto-repairman. In the film, the actor for Marylou did not fit the character she was described as in the book. Marylou is portrayed as a whore; she does more sexual things than in the book. She is also not as carefree or ditsy. Also she ends up going for a Sailor. Another character Camille is Dean’s brunette second wife and the one with whom Dean lives with. Camille throws Dean out in many instances throughout the book, as she does in the film. The actor for Camille worked because it showed how serious she was about being a mother and not going to put up with the late nights, partying, doing drugs and drinking alcohol. She put Dean
She is also known as Dean’s first wife. She understands Dean and their relationship well. Marylou sees Dean’s madness, saying that she loves him dearly yet cannot have him because he is too wild for her. Similar to Dean, she is sexually lecherous and sleeps with one man to the next, even lusting after Sal. However, after many break ups and fights with Dean, she ends up marrying an old auto-repairman. In the film, the actor for Marylou did not fit the character she was described as in the book. Marylou is portrayed as a whore; she does more sexual things than in the book. She is also not as carefree or ditsy. Also she ends up going for a Sailor. Another character Camille is Dean’s brunette second wife and the one with whom Dean lives with. Camille throws Dean out in many instances throughout the book, as she does in the film. The actor for Camille worked because it showed how serious she was about being a mother and not going to put up with the late nights, partying, doing drugs and drinking alcohol. She put Dean