...short story did a better job at this. Sure, Eve was added as a love interest for Rainsford. However, throughout the film, an awkward romantic tension built between the two. Furthermore, much of Rainsford’s background information was left out. In the beginning of the short story, many of Rainsford’s morals and ethics are revealed from his dialogue with Whitney. This was quite an important part of “The Most Dangerous Game” plot, as Rainsford struggled with his own ideals of being a hunter or the hunted. An...
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...Many stories attempt to answer the million dollar question: is killing right? High Noon by Carl Foreman is one such screenplay: Will Kane, a retired marshal, is getting married, but just as he and his wife leave to start a new life together, he receives news that the murderer he convicted, Frank Miller is back--Frank Miller, the town terroriser who would now be aiming for Kane's head. Another story which is centered around the protagonist's conflict with killing is Richard Connell's The Most Dangerous Game, where Rainsford, a big-game hunter, gets stranded on a mostly deserted island and is forced to play a "game" with General Zaroff--the game being three days of evading getting hunted by the general for sport. Although the conflicts of...
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...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...
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