As we watched the video version of Hemingway's A Clean Well Lighted Place I immediately began to see the differences between paper and film. The first major difference was the location of the old man. I n the story he was seated in the terrace under the shadows of a nearby tree's leaves, however in the video he is seated inside the cafe in a booth underneath a bright light. This makes the old man less mysterious and ruins the effect of the writing.
The second main difference that I caught almost immediately was the way the old man acted. In the story is a polite almost subtle figure in the video.... he was an obnoxious and annoying man who would yell and repeatedly slammed his glass onto his saucer. I believe the filmmaker did his best to reenact the scenario but to me it was not very close to what Hemingway had written.
I like how you explained not only what you didn't like and why but you also said why you think the director made the changes in the scene the ways they were.
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