After reading the story and watching the film of A Clean,
Well-Lighted Place, you start to realize what makes a movie so great
compared to the book, or what makes the book so great compared the movie. In
this short passage written by Ernest Hemingway, the film
stays very similar to the original text. Simply because all parts of the story
were important, verse a longer movie where the little details may not be as
important. Watching Part One of the video, the introduction was very strong
when they added the music. It really enhanced the tone of the piece. The sadness
and loneliness really showed throughout the music. Killing the music once inside
the café, added the amount of boredom and tiredness the two waiters had while
waiting for the old man to finish his drink. Once the younger waiter kicked the
old man out, the same music for the ending came on. The emotion changed again
while you watched the old man walk out of the café.
Although most
of the text stayed the same, bits and pieces were changed. In the story the old
man was sitting in the dark, but in the film was sitting in the light. However,
he was sitting in the only booth that was padded with black. I took this as
symbolism, because black normally means death or depression. Since this I
thought that the director decided to add this to still relate back to the
original version.
Part Two
generally stayed the same as the writing. Since nothing really changed I thought
that the first video was more interesting, especially with the three different
types of generations in the same café and the level of respect you always need
to have for one another. I liked this exercise and the overall point of the
story.
