Movie And Text Paul example essay topic

As with almost any written story and movie there are differences, some major and some minor. This is the case with 'Paul's Case'. The movie has a few new scenes in it, yet the text goes into more detail of what makes Paul tick. Now in both the movie and story Paul starts out at school for a confrontation by his teachers. Paul appears smug in both scenarios. He also was behaving like a somewhat different young boy with his red carnation on his button hole.

This demeanor added to his smugness. He bowed a theatrical bow when dismissed and ran with a feeling of lightheartedness to Carnegie Hall where he served as an usher. In both the text and the movie he went up to the art gallery and got lost in the moment and was just about late for work. The text states that Paul teased some of the other boy ushers and they called him crazy and knocked him down and sat on him.

This was not in the movie. The rest of the events at Carnegie Hall remained consistent between the movie and the text. Paul had to seat his teacher and then he sat himself and seemed to drift away in his own state of mind while listening to the show. In the text after the concert was over Paul was restless and irritated. He followed the carriage of a performer and day dreamed about walking inside the hotel, basically living in her footsteps. Suddenly the wet rain filling up his shoes brought him back to reality.

This was a skipped scene in the movie. Both the movie and text show the next scene where Paul is heading home and dreading it all the while. He can't bear the thought of seeing his father at the top of the steps in his nightgown asking him where has he been. He breaks in by the cellar and sleeps by the furnace.

The next morning they went to church and then Paul sat on the stoop of his house. This is where the text mentions the fact that he has sisters. The movie has no mention of the stoop or the sisters. The text and movie also show the scene where Paul asks his dad for cab fare to go study with a friend.

The exception is that in the text Paul has prepared dinner for his father. Paul actually wants to go to the theater. His dad gives in and Paul is on his way. Paul watches the play from backstage, takes a flower afterwards, and dreams of going to New York.

The next day at the school, in the movie, Paul is with 2 boys and they tear up his picture of Charlie Edwards. He just walks away. Paul goes to the music hall and they won't let him in. He also goes to see Charlie and he tells him that his father asked him not to speak to Paul anymore. This is in the movie and text. In the movie his dad tells him he is expelled.

He got him a job at Denny and Carson's. In the movie when he is at his new job he hears a train whistle which makes him fanaticize and then he hears an adding machine which brings him back to reality. The next thing you know he is on a train going to New York city. Once there he goes to a men's clothing shop and buys really fancy clothes. He also goes and buys nice luggage.

He then goes to the Waldorf, up to his suite, and has roses brought to him. In the restaurant he has champagne. He has problems pronouncing items on the menu, this takes place in the movie. In the movie and text Paul keeps track of what the newspapers are saying about the money missing from Denny and Carson's. In the text he goes with the young man and then decides the next day that he is out of money and has to leave. In the movie he meets a young man who invites him to go see the nightlife.

He declines the offer. He see's his father and runs to his room to pack and sleeps with the lights on. He takes a cab to Penn Station and goes back to Newark. In the movie he leaves the box with the gun behind.

The remaining parts to the text and movie are quite similar. He takes a carriage out along the train tracks until it is desolate and then gets out and walks and thinks. He rubs snow in his face and it feels hot. He goes near the edge of a wall above the tracks.

He hears a whistle blowing and looks back at his carnations on the ground. He jumps down in front of the train at just the right time. As he was falling he reminisced about his fantasy life until the blow from the train made all go black. This was his grand tragic ending to both side of his life - his fantasy life and his reality - the life he dreaded.