Giver Assesment

10-17-16
I think the director changed the beginning of the movie because he wanted people to understand the difference between the 2. The movie started off by introducing their way of life and there rules and how they show the characters and they start building their way up to the conflict of the book. But in the book it starts off by talking about December which we learned in the book was the month of the ceremony and they. This compares to the movie because their talking about something that didn't get explained really well in the movie. The beginning of the book is diving straight into the story and important events in the book . But the movie builds up the conflict slowly

I think the director picking Brenton was a good and bad decision because he kinda seems like he would look like in real life.  But at the time of the movie he was 25 and The girl was 19 so I would've chosen a 14 or 15 year old so it can stay true to the book but it looked way better if  it was a bigger person because it would seem weird for a Teenager taking a baby to elsewhere it's just a little off. I imagined Jonas to be like a 16 year old kid with black hair and a average height and pretty skinny. The director was on point but the age wasn't right

To me the movie made my understanding better for many reasons. One of them is because I need to be showed something visually and most people like it better and prefer it when they get it showed to them because they don't have to picture it in their minds because it's already there.The book goes way more into detail but the movie uses some details to stay true to the book but they are very simple details like the setting , characters , conflict etc.