#ANG1100 TulipFever English filmadaptation

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TULIP FEVER

Being part of ANG 1100, we had to watch and read Tulip Fever. The movie is directed by Justin Chadwick and is an adaptation of the book written by Deborah Moggach. Going to the theatre to watch the movie without reading the book from the beginning was kind of helpful to keep that suspense and the heat of the action take place inside my head. However, I have watched the trailers available on the internet before watching the movie and that had given me a whole imagined idea that was not what Chadwick portrayed in his adaptation. I have imagined the movie having a darker plot twist than what was chosen to be portrayed by the director. Furthermore, the actors chosen for the characters seem a good fit, i.e. how Moggach describes Maria in the book is very well interpreted in the movie. For me, after reading the book, the film deviated a bit from the book, however it is noted that movies do tend to deviate from the original writing to adapt to a screen script with more dialogue than description. It is crucial to say that when reading the book the flow of actions seem logical, but when put into a fit production those actions need a more tense way to be described, therefore when Sophia “dies” in the book the scene is taken from a different angle than in the movie,i.e. in the movie Cornelis bursts into the room raging over the doctor and insisting on seeing his wife regardless of the doctors orders he pulls the drapes from her face and aim to kiss her. In the book this part is written differently than the script, however it is to aggravate the death/love scene in the movie that, in my opinion, the director chose to do so.Speaking of changes, in the book it is described that Sophia has in fact a family, a poor one, in the movie Sophia is described as an orphan who was sheltered by the nuns in the orphanage till the day she was given to be wed. these slight deviations from the book give the director the dramatization if you will to ignite the movie with emotions and transverse it into actions. Somehow having slight changes and omissions from the book gives the movie its character and charm. Watching the film with the slight changes has given the novel another point of view of “what ifs”, meaning what if it was that way and not the other? what would have changed in Moggach’s writing if she had to rethink her story line? did Chadwick give the book the best adaptation?             See, there are plenty of questions you can ask yourself, but in this case and in my opinion the film was a good adaptation of the novel and Chadwick did justice to the book.