Imagery

Authors note: This short piece is going to be about the differences between a movie and a short stories imagery and how it effects the readers interpretation of the characters.

There are not that many short stories that have different imagery in the movie than in the short story. The short story A clean and Well Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway  has you picturing in your mind different imagery between the short story and the movie.  The short story is about a man who stays late in a café. In the story the old man wants more and more to drink and the two waiters say that he is going to get drunk and not make it home so they force him not to have anymore and send him on his way.

First of all, The positioning of the characters in the café in the film greatly changes the way the reader interprets the story and the characters in general. For instance the old man sitting down at a table by himself with light all around in the movie. The reader would think that he is a nice person and seems like he is living a good life and he doesn't seem depressed. Put in the short story it tells the reader that the old man is sitting in a dark place in the café with a shadow covering him. That greatly changes the readers interpretation of the old man and what the reader thinks about him.

It effects the readers understanding from reading the story to watching the film greatly because how the imagery is different in both the story and the film. The reader is going to have different interprets and kind of confuse themselves after reading the story than watching the film because the imagery that was in the story to the old man in the film is very different and the scene around him makes the people interpret different thoughts and wonder what the characters are going through. 

On the other hand there are also two other examples that may have the reader thinking differently. One is the scene lengths and how they are longer than usual it will get people thinking more about what is showing on the screen and getting the reader to interpret what the film is really trying to say. For instance at the end of the film when the older waiter was walking slowly back to his house it made the people watching it think that he was depressed and lonely because of how slow he was walking and how long the scene length was. The other one is the sound that really effects the tone because when people here the sound they can tell if it is a happy film or a depressing film. There is no sound in this film so you can tell that it is depressing and sad. 

Many readers would like to have the film the same as the story so they can read the story and when  they watch the film they would see the same imagery as in the book. If the director of the  film made it the same as the short story it would be the same he didn't make it the same because he wanted readers to see what their interpretation would be.