The English Patient Analysis

Comparative study of the text and movie: The English Patient

Abstract

The preliminary aim of this research paper is to critically analyse and compare the movie and the novel versions of the text The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje. There are certain episodes which remains amiss in the movie, the movie is a 1996 British American romantic drama produced by Saul Zaentz. This research paper also studies the various themes and motifs recurring in the text and reflects the special effects produced by the movie on the audience. Slight inclusion and exclusion of events and role of certain characters had major emphasis on the overall plot and denouement of the story. The poetic involvement of various techniques ultra rated the movie and increased

Mostly comprised with the ingenuous quality of poet, he was essentially a novelist. His collections of poetry include The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left Handed Poems (1981), which won the Canadian Governor General's Award in 1971; The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems (1989); and Handwriting: Poems (1998).

Ondaatje is, along with Margaret Atwood, one of Canada's most important contemporary writers and one of the country's biggest cultural exports.

Michael Ondaatje’s novel The English Patient was published in the year 1992 with its film adaptation 1996, screenplay/director: Anthony Minghella. The textual section is divided in two sub parts. First dealing with the ‘language’ of film, providing an overview of the important aspects and techniques of filmic expression and of the ways they can be performed in order to produce certain effects. The second is constricted with film adaptation of literary genre as such. The two central principles in the comparison of films with their literary sources are discussed, namely integrity to the original text on the one hand and the sole of the medium film on the other. The analysis then

In the novel and film "The English Patient", we have seen the importance a variety of characters in many different ways. At various points during the film the director places much emphasis on certain points, characters and conflicts, in reluctance to the textual version. Both, movie and novel are tremendous dramatic representations of The English Patient. However, movie version establishes greater understanding of the role of characters in "The English Patient" with the help of emotions and sound effects. This plot is the same in both the book and the movie, and there are many other similarities as well. There are, however, also many differences between the book and the movie. First of all, the plot is the same in both the book and the movie, preserving in