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film essayENG 218 / FILM 218 Essay 2 Essay Requirements: 1. Students must choose a short story, novella, or novel (anything except what we used in class) and a film version of that text.  Please be sure to use a work of fiction.  You must choose a work with a first person narrator.  If you are unsure if the work you’ve chosen has a first person narrator, please feel free to contact me and ask. 2. There are three goals of the essay: a. To analyze both the literature and the film using the text and film formalist elements.  It is not expected that all elements will be used in the student’s essay.  Students should focus on formalist elements that feature prominently in the text and film chosen (lecture materials from Week 2). b. To evaluate the film as an adaptation of the text chosen.  Focus of this discussion should include what type of adaptation the film is (loose, intermediate, close), why it constitutes that sort of adaptation type, what was added / cut / kept between the text and the film adaptation, and whether the film was a successful adaption and explain the reasoning behind that position (lecture materials from Week 1). c. To use outside research to expand the analysis / discussion of the text and/or film (lecture materials from Week 3). 3. Do not use first person (I, my, me, we, us) or second person (you, your) when writing the essay (unless quoting a source). 4. The audience for the paper is an academic audience.  Academic audiences expect very few (if any) sentence level errors and a professional, formal tone. 5. Essays must follow MLA format, both in appearance and citation (works cited AND in-text citation).  Refreshers on MLA format are on the course Blackboard web links section. 6. The minimum length of each essay is 5 pages.  Essays may exceed the minimum; however, please do not go over 10 pages.  Essays shorter than 5 pages will be penalized one grade (ten points) for each missing page.  The works cited does not count towards page count. 7. The minimum amount of sources required for each essay is three.  One must be the text, and one must be the film.  Students are encouraged to use more than this, but three is the minimum.  Suggestions for sources that will help expand on the analysis are (but are not limited to): a. Movie reviews (can be found online on IMDB.com – do not use the User Comments, you want to use actual critical reviews) b. DVD extras c. Actor / director interviews d. Historical / biographic information e. Scholarly articles written about the play and/or film f. Psychological theories connected to character motivation g. Investigation of music used in the score 8. Essays will be due in two formats:  hard (paper) copy and soft (file copy submitted to the drop box in Blackboard) copy.  If you cannot get the drop box to work in Blackboard, please send the file copy as an e-mail attachment.  The due date for the paper is listed on the course schedule. Sources students CANNOT use for this paper include Sparknotes / CliffsNotes / GradeSaver, study guides, and / or free essay websites.

Sourav Kumar · Accepted Answer

Assembling a movie dependent on a profoundly acclaimed literary work loaded with phrasings and lines of discourse that have perpetually been copied into the readers' brains is to a great extent a difficult assignment. Making a movie that keeps up the essence of such an abstract work and even a large number of its most effortless lines is about difficult to achieve, and in that angle, director Baz Luhrmann(Scott,2017) has a lot of issues with The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald's elucidating sentences are nearly as significant as his discourse and hurling probably the best lines from the novel into ashy content on the screen isn't the most ideal approach to take advantage of those minutes, neither is taking artistic freedom in certain defining moments so as to accelerate the narrating procedure.
The latest movie adaption featured Tobey Macguire as Nick Carraway, Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, and Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan. This adaption was more garish than past ones. From the hues, with the impacts, to the Jay-Z soundtrack; the motion picture positively attempted to catch the abundance of the 1920's however such that felt relatable to the cutting edge watcher. This was the Great Gatsby however with a 21st century touch. The movie was met with blended responses; you either cherished the 21st century contact or despised it. A few pundits felt it was excessively quick paced and detracted from the enthusiastic part of the novel, that the movie concentrated a lot on the magnificence found in the novel that different topics in the novel were lost. Others felt that the characters were too weakened and one-dimensional when contrasted with the novel. Fans were similarly as blended as pundits; everybody concurred that perusing the novel and watching the movie were two altogether different encounters. In like manner, despite the fact that the Great Gatsby soundtrack got positive audits for the music itself, many felt that it was highlighted time and again in the movie. Be that as it may, Lana Del Rey's melody "Youthful and Beautiful" was generally commended both for substance and it's job in the movie.
 F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby, and Baz Luhrmann's motion picture adaptation can barely be made comparisons of– while engaging and expanding, the movie doesn't remain consistent with the content of the novel. Luhrmann, the movie's chief and maker,

ENG 218 / FILM 218 Essay 2 Essay Requirements: 1. Students must choose a short story, novella, or novel (anything except what we used in class) and a film version of that text. Please be sure to use a...

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