George Roy Hill's film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughter-house Five is a fairly accurate version that stays relatively close to Vonnegut's own vision. Throughout Vonnegut's novel, Billy Pilgrim, a World War II soldier captured by the Germans and held captive as an American prisoner of war, demonstrates several extreme compulsive tendencies due to the horrific events he witnessed as a prisoner of war. as a victim of an American prisoner of war. After reading about Billy's experiences, I didn't have confidence in the film's ability to accurately present Vonnegut's personal feelings. On the contrary, after seeing George Hill's film adaptation of Slaughter-house Five, I felt that he had done an extremely enjoyable job, in keeping with what Vonnegut had wanted to see and feel in his novel. Surprisingly, I was exceptionally impressed with how Hill's film managed to portray the concept of the novel that I thought was almost impossible to translate to a cinema screen. I had a hard time imagining how Hill could bring abstract subjects like “being unstuck in time” (Vonnegut) to the big screen. However, I was relatively impressed with how Billy was able to seamlessly travel to different points in his life, just like he did in Kurt Vonnegut's novel. At times throughout Slaughter-house Five I found it rather difficult to follow Billy throughout his travels. I was pleasantly surprised that this wasn't the case for Hill's film adaptation; because I had imagined that it would be much more difficult to follow in the film than in the book. I think Hill was able to perfectly make the transition between Billy's time travel events easier to follow by incorporating an aspect that Vonnegut did. not used in its ...... middle of paper ...... ark for me. For the most part, Hill's adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughter-house Five is a modified authentic version that stays relatively close to Vonnegut's vision. The film and book depict Billy's past as a young man stuck in war, his future being in a zoo on a planet for aliens as well as a hapless middle-aged optometrist in his current time. I really enjoyed the book, but I wasn't sure how it would translate to the movie screen. However, thanks to Hill's efforts, he was able to stay fairly faithful to the broad outline of the novel and I enjoyed watching Billy just as much as reading about him. Real. George Roy Hill. Perf. Michael Sacks and Kevin Conway. Universal Studios, 1972. Netflix. Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse Five. New York, NY: Delacorte/Seymour Lawrence, 1994. Print.

Essay / George Roy Hill's film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughter-house Five is a fairly accurate version that stays relatively close to Vonnegut's own vision. Throughout Vonnegut's novel, Billy Pilgrim, a World War II soldier captured by the Germans and held captive as an American prisoner of war, demonstrates several extreme compulsive tendencies due to the horrific events he witnessed as a prisoner of war. as a victim of an American prisoner of war. After reading about Billy's experiences, I didn't have confidence in the film's ability to accurately present Vonnegut's personal feelings. On the contrary, after seeing George Hill's film adaptation of Slaughter-house Five, I felt that he had done an extremely enjoyable job, in keeping with what Vonnegut had wanted to see and feel in his novel. Surprisingly, I was exceptionally impressed with how Hill's film managed to portray the concept of the novel that I thought was almost impossible to translate to a cinema screen. I had a hard time imagining how Hill could bring abstract subjects like “being unstuck in time” (Vonnegut) to the big screen. However, I was relatively impressed with how Billy was able to seamlessly travel to different points in his life, just like he did in Kurt Vonnegut's novel. At times throughout Slaughter-house Five I found it rather difficult to follow Billy throughout his travels. I was pleasantly surprised that this wasn't the case for Hill's film adaptation; because I had imagined that it would be much more difficult to follow in the film than in the book. I think Hill was able to perfectly make the transition between Billy's time travel events easier to follow by incorporating an aspect that Vonnegut did. not used in its ...... middle of paper ...... ark for me. For the most part, Hill's adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughter-house Five is a modified authentic version that stays relatively close to Vonnegut's vision. The film and book depict Billy's past as a young man stuck in war, his future being in a zoo on a planet for aliens as well as a hapless middle-aged optometrist in his current time. I really enjoyed the book, but I wasn't sure how it would translate to the movie screen. However, thanks to Hill's efforts, he was able to stay fairly faithful to the broad outline of the novel and I enjoyed watching Billy just as much as reading about him. Real. George Roy Hill. Perf. Michael Sacks and Kevin Conway. Universal Studios, 1972. Netflix. Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse Five. New York, NY: Delacorte/Seymour Lawrence, 1994. Print.

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