Hound Of The Baskervilles Movie And Book Comparison Essay
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The Hound of the Baskervilles novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and The Hound of the Baskervilles film by Rodney Gibbons are two pieces of fiction that are so alike yet, so different. Reading the book and watching the film were such different experiences. In my opinion, the book wasn't boring at all. But, watching the film version is so much more intriguing than reading a book. While watching the film, I caught small differences and similarities between the two pieces.
These small differences, however, did not impact the plot of the story in anyway.
At the beginning of the film, one difference was very obvious. The film began with Sir Charles standing outside in front of a gate smoking a cigar. Sir Charles then hears a sound from the bushes. Being the apprehensive person he is, Sir Charles immediately throws the cigar, runs to the other side of the gate and closes it. He then runs and eventually is attacked by the hound. However, the novel begins with…show more content… In the novel, Sir Henry walks into the moors and both Holmes and Dr. Watson could hear the hound before it even appears. The hound was exactly how it was described in the manuscript; enormous and hellish. Taken aback, Holmes and Dr. Watson try shooting the hound. The hound growled once, which might indicate that at least once bullet had hit him but the hound keeps chasing Sir Henry. Sir Henry looks back at the hound in fear. Luckily, Holmes runs and empties five barrels of revolver, finally killing the beast. In the film, the hound didn't die that way. Stapelton is shown holding Sir Henry’s missing boot and telling the hound to go after Sir Henry. Being a dog, the hound smells the boot and mistakenly attacks Stapelton into a swamp like pond. This was the same one shown in the beginning of the film when a rock was thrown and sunk. While the hound attacked Stapelton, both of them sink into the mysterious water and never come back