The Heart of the Mystery

The story of The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Conan Doyle, has beenis now adapted to a movie, directed by David Attwood. The movie captures complex plot, and main characters in comparison to the book, but differs in specific details in the directors attempt to condense time and create dramatic affect The book, the Hound of the Baskervilles, differs from the adaption of the movie. The Ffirst big difference between the two is the Point of view. In the book, the point of view was is written as Watson, so you could seeit is possible to recognize all of his thoughts and the conflict between him and Sherlock throughout the storyline and the conflict between him and Sherlock. However, in the movie it is in 3rd person and we there are get no internal thoughts from characters. This may be to increase the dramatic effect of the feeling of everything not being clearis mysterious and unknown, but you were still able to feel the tension between Watson and Sherlock through dialogue. There were many small, yet important, details that were are tweaked for Hollywood affects, resulting in differences in scenes. Including, the difference of the legend that Dr. Mortimer told to Sherlock while confronting him concerning Sir Charless mysterious death upon the moor and the new heir of the estate of Baskerville manor. While the legend told from the book suggests Hugo, the Baskerville to start curse, possesses a more evil and lustful desire for an innocent woman, the legend in the movie shows Hugo seeking revenge for an unfaithful wife whose hound killed him out of loyalty. In Addition, on page 71(PAGE #) of the book, Sherlock and Watson confront John Clayton to ask him questions about his mysterious bearded passenger., and Clayton (the cab driver) responds in laughterto them then [he] departed chuckling and holmes turned to [Watson] with a shrugQUOTE (Doyle, 71). This seems like Clayton knows more and is not telling on his own consent. On the
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other hand, in the movie adaptation Sherlock sneaks to the cab and collects forensic evidence, which is a more modern thing, and fights the words out of the Cab driver. DECIDE IF WANT TO ADD EXAMPLE OF DETAIL Also, the book contains lots of characters that all jumble together in order to create a complex plot. Assuming for time purposes, the movie leaves out some small role characters. This Includes, Laura Lyons and Mr. Frankland, who are Neighbors to the Baskerville estate, they are dropped due to lack of significance to the overall plotbig picture. Overall, the biggest change is how the ending comes to place. During the book, the Author uses a denouement to calmly end the story comes to an end. , Doyle does this by having Watson ask Perhaps you would kindly give me a sketch of the course of events from memory to Sherlock to inquire of the simplicity of the reasons behind the whole legend (Doyle, 212). However, the movie creates action by capturing Stapleton and he explains the whole plot along with Sherlocks inquiries. Also, the movie has Stapleton escapes and flees over the moor and sets Sherlock in a trap, Watson being the hero by killing Stapleton and saving Sherlock. Whereas, the book carries a complex storyline the ending is very simple and Stapleton disappears [he] never reached that island of refuge and he is the only one harmed (Doyle, 209). TRANSITION:_________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________ While both the movie and book show many differences, they also show significant similarities.

Both the book and movie of the story of the Hound of the Baskervilles have similaritiescontain important comparisons in order to keep the same plot between the two. For Example, the basic plot follows the same main ideas. This Includes Important scenes,, for instance in both versions it explains Sherlock was secretly on the moor. In both versions this comes as a shock to Watson and the rest of the characters.and Stapleton was the culprit. Also, afterAfter Sherlock reveals himself they use the same plan to capture the hound and Stapleton as he Stapleton attempts to harm Sir Henry. Another important scene they share includes the The brute of a culprit, Stapleton, so called by Sherlock (Doyle, 205). There were also many other similarities in main scenes, but alsoand the main characters stayed the same, characters. This includes characters like Sir Charles (the victim), Sir Henry (the heir), Mr. and Mrs. Stapleton (the culprit and his wife), and Sherlock and Watson (the detectives). It is crucial to keep them in order to obtain the same general story line. ADD E4XAMPLES In Conclusion, the adaption of the storybook, The Hound of the Baskervilles, to the movie involves many similarities and differences in order to please people who watch it keeping the complex plot of the thrilling mystery. However, the book contains much more precise details and complexity of plot that intrigues readers. This is a similar pattern with most book to movie comparisons. Most books contain a bigger story that explains and shows more depth than the movie. Books can tell thoughts through points of views where movies lack that ability. This includes the story Percy Jackson with many twists, but the perfection was unable to be captured in film.create the movie.

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