The Conformist Movie
A Comparison of Two Italian Historical Films and Their Original Novels One of the most captivating films with its respective novel is “The Conformist” directed by an Italian Bernardo Bertolucci in 1970. Particularly, the writer named Alberto Moravia developed the scrip for the movie in the form of a novel in 1951. The content of the movie and the film are same, but a difference emerges in the way its characters perform their work. The film itself has stylish visuals that echo the imagery formed in the novel as a reader scrolls through the pages. The other film’s name is "Christ Stopped at Eboli" by Francesco Rosi. Carlo Levi wrote the original novel in 1945 . Accordingly, the writer of the book uses the platform to give his account of life
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Usually, this happens not because of its inherent heavy themes, but because it proposes indigestible statements. The readers need to capture and understand the slightest bit of its masterwork and a simplification of its ideas to understand the rest the content better. In a real sense, the film combines themes that are not common in other movies. In other words, it joins them to the point that a viewer can end up failing to understand whether it is morality with religion, politics with security, or religion and morality. Most of these themes happen in a way that is different from what was written in the novel (Marcus 342). It is not possible to bring everything as it happens in the novel because this can degrade the quality of the …show more content…
The film is realistic, and it tells and informs people the state of welfare that used to dominate in the region of Lucania. The director of the movies Rosi Francesco took over in 1979 and led to the development of the theme and not the setting. Apparently, the content of the novel is somehow different from the film (Levi and Frenaye 309). Although the differences are not easily noticeable, readers and viewers must be very keen to realize that the setting of the location is not exactly at Lucania as it is mentioned in the
Usually, this happens not because of its inherent heavy themes, but because it proposes indigestible statements. The readers need to capture and understand the slightest bit of its masterwork and a simplification of its ideas to understand the rest the content better. In a real sense, the film combines themes that are not common in other movies. In other words, it joins them to the point that a viewer can end up failing to understand whether it is morality with religion, politics with security, or religion and morality. Most of these themes happen in a way that is different from what was written in the novel (Marcus 342). It is not possible to bring everything as it happens in the novel because this can degrade the quality of the …show more content…
The film is realistic, and it tells and informs people the state of welfare that used to dominate in the region of Lucania. The director of the movies Rosi Francesco took over in 1979 and led to the development of the theme and not the setting. Apparently, the content of the novel is somehow different from the film (Levi and Frenaye 309). Although the differences are not easily noticeable, readers and viewers must be very keen to realize that the setting of the location is not exactly at Lucania as it is mentioned in the