Film Adaptation (Part A)

     The Book Fahrenheit 451 has been turned into a movie.
     In the film adaptation, the plot line is slightly altered, for example, at the beginning of the novel, the main character's, Guy Montag's, wife has overdosed on some pharmaceutical drug and she needs to have her stomach pumped. In the novel, the first time he comes home, she is laying on the ground like this, whereas in the movie, it is the second lime he comes home, and the events which occur after this occurrence in the book, occur before this in the film adaptation. The reasoning for changing parts around like this is most likely because they make more sense in relation to the other alterations in this film. Reason for cutting sections out of the book is simply because there are time restrictions on how much can actually be used to make the movie, and these may be over the limit, so cuts need to be made.
   
     I thought that the film adaptation of Fahrenheit 451 was an alright creation because the story is still the same, just with semi-minor alterations. Generally, the film adaptations are not as good as the books anyway, and it is the same for essentially everything else as well: video games made into films are often not that great (the movie, I mean, not the video game itself) It is still a good story, no matter what changes are made, unless the film director really messes up in recreating the storyline from the novel into a film.

Suspense

        In the book Fahrenheit 451, a point at which there is a considerable amount of suspense is when the main character, Guy Montag, is sitting in his bed, with a book under his pillow, and his wife is trying to get at his pillow to fluff it, while Montag's boss, Beatty, is sitting right in the room talking to him. To understand this, one needs to know that it is illegal to have books in this books universe, and Montag's job is to burn books when they are found. Now, Montag is sitting in his bed with the book under the pillow, and Mildred (his wife) is trying to get at the pillow beneath him to "fluff" the pillow. She keeps trying, even though Montag is telling her to leave as he is speaking with his boss, when she reaches under the pillow, and feels the edge of a book. This section of the book is almost slowed down as Montag sits speaking with Beatty, listening to him talk about the fact that they allow the firefighters to have the books for a single day, then if the firefighter hasn't gotten rid of it yet, they will get rid of it for them. During this portion of the story, the author speaks of every possible feature during the drawn out process.

        The point of view is telling only what Guy Montag thinks, not what Mildred or Beatty thinks, which means that the author does not know what anyone except for the protagonist is thinking. Also, the fact that the setting of this portion is in all in Montag's room, only really taking a few seconds, but seeming to take far longer than what is perceived also sort of makes the reader keep thinking that something is going to happen, even if nothing truly does happen. The mood which was created during this part is also dark. Montag has just aided the fire team in burning a house full of books (the house which he attained the bible he currently has hidden under his pillow) and a women who refused to leave the house when the poured kerosene all over the house and books, which inevitably cost her her own life. This makes Montag feel sick, and he begins to question alot of things, especially what is in the books which would make someone want to die when they could no longer have them.