What Are The Differences Between Catch 22 Movie And Book
Maritza Ferreira
Essay 1
The Novel
Catch-22 Novel Movie Comparison
There are a lot of major differences between the novel and movie of Catch-22 as well as some similarities. The movie and book as a whole do have the same plot and follow a very similar story line. Like in all books that are made into movies there was much more information and detail in the book than there was in the movie, especially in the missions and the introduction of characters. The book is very complex and it was probably a challenge when putting it into a fixed time frame for a movie.
The aspect of war is portrayed very similar in the movies as it is in the novel. However in the novel the war was symbolic to its time and in the movie it seems that it is just another movie that was made about war rather than movies that uses war as symbolism, which …show more content…
IN the movie there is a feeling that the only thing that the war itself symbolizes is that it is a terrible hellish place to be at the time.
The movie also reminds me of another war movie in that it uses a similar way of story telling; it reminds me of full metal jacket. It reminds me of this because it starts off quite funny then as the movie progresses it becomes more serious, this is somewhat similar in the book, but in the book there is always some kind of satire throughout. It seems as if in the first half of the movie everyone is silly and child like behavior, which is similar to how we are introduced to, characters in the book. The only difference is that there is reasoning to this foolish behavior of the characters that is explained in the book. “ 'I 'm nuts. Cuckoo. Don 't you understand? I 'm off my rocker. They sent someone else home in my place by
Essay 1
The Novel
Catch-22 Novel Movie Comparison
There are a lot of major differences between the novel and movie of Catch-22 as well as some similarities. The movie and book as a whole do have the same plot and follow a very similar story line. Like in all books that are made into movies there was much more information and detail in the book than there was in the movie, especially in the missions and the introduction of characters. The book is very complex and it was probably a challenge when putting it into a fixed time frame for a movie.
The aspect of war is portrayed very similar in the movies as it is in the novel. However in the novel the war was symbolic to its time and in the movie it seems that it is just another movie that was made about war rather than movies that uses war as symbolism, which …show more content…
IN the movie there is a feeling that the only thing that the war itself symbolizes is that it is a terrible hellish place to be at the time.
The movie also reminds me of another war movie in that it uses a similar way of story telling; it reminds me of full metal jacket. It reminds me of this because it starts off quite funny then as the movie progresses it becomes more serious, this is somewhat similar in the book, but in the book there is always some kind of satire throughout. It seems as if in the first half of the movie everyone is silly and child like behavior, which is similar to how we are introduced to, characters in the book. The only difference is that there is reasoning to this foolish behavior of the characters that is explained in the book. “ 'I 'm nuts. Cuckoo. Don 't you understand? I 'm off my rocker. They sent someone else home in my place by