Theatrical adaptations of literature most often create similarities and differences between the piece of literature that it is modeling and itself. This can be seen in the short story The Most Dangerous Game and the film of the same name. Directors Irving Pichel and Ernest B. Schoedsack took the job of restyling the novel. Examples of parallels and distinctions can be seen predominantly in the setting, plot events, characters, and resolution of the two fictional arts. When a director of a screenplay reshapes a novel, it would be irrational to make changes to the setting, because it could make drastic changes to the plot events. This also holds true for the film version of The Most Dangerous Game. For example, the backdrop takes …show more content…
Additional characters in the motion picture contrast greatly from the narrative. The supplementary characters in the motion picture was a brother, Martin, and his sister, Eve, who stayed with the protagonist Rainsford at Zaroff’s chateau. Adding on to these extra characters, their role in the movie change how Rainsford finds out about Zaroff’s true intentions. From the book, General Zaroff tells Rainsford directly that he plans to hunt him, which differs from him being caught in Zaroff’s “trophy room.” These events lead to Rainsford discovering Martin to be dead; the result of him being hunted. Moreover, the resolution of the cinema was also in great deviance. Rainsford decided to stay and sleep at Zaroff’s residence after personally killing him at the ending of the short story while he escapes with Eve after Zaroff falls to his death from his window in the conclusion of the screenplay. Beyond that, the overall theme changed from the novel to the film version. The reader is left with a decision after reading The Most Dangerous Game on what Rainsford decided to do after killing Zaroff. He could have stayed and became the murder he vowed to never become or leave the island and return to his normal life. The two mentioned dissimilarities are common for directors to use because additional characters or a whole new resolution can completely change the makeup of a literary