The story, written by Kurt Vonnegut, Harrison Bergeron, has a more satirical effect than the director’s interpretation of Harrison Bergeron. Satire is the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity. The author Kurt Vonnegut used the elements of satire such as, exaggeration, irony, and symbolism, and those elements were better conveyed in the story than the film.
The story was more satirical than the director’s interpretation in exaggeration.When Harrison removed his handicaps it was very exaggerated.This was after Harrison took off his handicaps,“But Harrison snatched two musicians from their chairs, waved them like batons”(Vonnegut 168-169), It’s highly unlikely that Harrison could do that.This was when Harrison was dancing, “Not only were the laws of the land abandoned, but the law of gravity and the laws of motion as well.”(Vonnegut 178-179),that is also very unlikely to happen.In the director’s interpretation, there weren’t many things that were over exaggerated, like Harrison Bergeron didn’t abandon the laws of gravity and motion in the director’s interpretation. …show more content…
For example, the text refers to one of the ballerinas, “She must have been extraordinarily beautiful, because the mask she wore was hideous.” (Vonnegut 95–96).If the mask was actually trying to make people equal and not feel bad, then the mask would have to prevent people from knowing how beautiful the person was.It was more ironic in the story than the director’s interpretation, because in the director’s interpretation it didn’t really show that the uglier mask the more beutiful the person, it looked like the people had the same masks as ballerinas, and in the story it showed that the uglier mask the more beutiful the person, which is very