OMAM: Book vs Movie

     I think Of Mice and Men was a great book. It showed many things like loneliness and the hardships for different people back then. What had the most profound impact was how the book and movie both showed different types of loneliness. In Crooks, Candy, Curley's Wife, and Lennie. It helped me understand the message of the book more. I would recommend this book to anyone honestly. It seems like it could fit a variety of many younger and older people. It just is a great piece of writing.

     In the film, the director shows us “the incident in Weed” differently from how we find out in the book. In the book they mention it many times, but the reader doesn't know what "the incident in Weed" is until when George finally tells Slim. In the movie they actually show what happened in Weed as the first scene. That is the reason they went to the ranch. They did it that way because in the book it left you wanting more but in the movie it built up the suspense, its good both ways. This changes the story because then it won't let the reader/viewer left hanging.

     The book begins with the “stage” set by the pond. In the film, we see George on a train first. The director shows George on the train first because that is also how the movie ends. I also think it shows how it was "back in the day" than present day. It shows the time they are in, because now a days people don't ride on those type of trains without seats. It is showing that George's life is very hard, he has no place he actually can call home and is running everywhere. He tries to find one place and he is still looking for it.

     I think the director’s choice of Sharilynn Fenn to play Curley’s wife could have been better. She does not look how I imagined her. I thought she would be blonde with a very bright face. I would have chosen Scarlett Johnson, because that is how I pictured  Curley's Wife in the book.