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I saw this movie in a high school English class after I read the book. I personally thought that the movie was not as good as I thought it would be. The movie had many differences between the movie and the book. First, in the movie, Santiago had a grown daughter, which in the book he never had. In the book, he had flashbacks and dreams of lions on a beach. He never dreamed it in the movie. Instead, he dreamed about his wedding. The new parts in the movie did not add to the meaning to the book, it actually took away some of the meaning because in the book, while he's fishing, he said that he misses the dreams of the lions and the point of the book related back to the dream. To me, that dream was a huge part of the meaning of the book, so that was an important part. But on the other hand, the movie did help me imagine the story and understand it a little. The graphics and the animation of the movie were terrible at one point when he was struggling with the marlin he caught. The sea and the marlin looked as a background and the boat and Santiago looked really alive. What I mean that the graphics in that scene looked really fake. Also, in the movie, Santiago had a rod and in the book he used his own bare hands. When his hand cramped in the book, it took a long time for the hand to stop cramping. But in the movie when his hand cramped, it only took like 5 minutes so that the hand will stop cramping. But overall the movie 'The Old Man and the Sea' was not that very good. I will not recommend this book to any freshman or any grade in high school. Maybe the movie needs more realistic actors because Santiago's daughter needed an accent and did really bad job acting. The movie needed better actors for each part.
I saw this movie in a high school English class after I read the book. I personally thought that the movie was not as good as I thought it would be. The movie had many differences between the movie and the book. First, in the movie, Santiago had a grown daughter, which in the book he never had. In the book, he had flashbacks and dreams of lions on a beach. He never dreamed it in the movie. Instead, he dreamed about his wedding. The new parts in the movie did not add to the meaning to the book, it actually took away some of the meaning because in the book, while he's fishing, he said that he misses the dreams of the lions and the point of the book related back to the dream. To me, that dream was a huge part of the meaning of the book, so that was an important part. But on the other hand, the movie did help me imagine the story and understand it a little. The graphics and the animation of the movie were terrible at one point when he was struggling with the marlin he caught. The sea and the marlin looked as a background and the boat and Santiago looked really alive. What I mean that the graphics in that scene looked really fake. Also, in the movie, Santiago had a rod and in the book he used his own bare hands. When his hand cramped in the book, it took a long time for the hand to stop cramping. But in the movie when his hand cramped, it only took like 5 minutes so that the hand will stop cramping. But overall the movie 'The Old Man and the Sea' was not that very good. I will not recommend this book to any freshman or any grade in high school. Maybe the movie needs more realistic actors because Santiago's daughter needed an accent and did really bad job acting. The movie needed better actors for each part.