June 8, Minority Report

Blog Prompt

1. Share your choice of short story for the Film Adaptation Proposal essay from weeks 1, 2, and 3. Briefly explain your rationale for selecting that story. A Rose for Emily. I chose this one because the story is so tied to the cultural environment that any change in environment changes the story. I plan to experiment with time and location to see what twists i can throw into the story while still leaving the main theme intact.
   

Discussion Questions

1. What similarities and differences do you notice between the story and the film versions of "The Minority Report"?What is the effect of those differences for readers/viewers? Anderton was a young man, not old. this created room to make this a believable action movie. There was more background on the pre-cogs, and they were given more of a role in the story. This rounded out their characters more and gave the story more demension for the reader. Witwer's charachter had more initial authority. He also seemed more sinister, to me. I found it more believable that he would have set Anderton up. The old man was not General Kaplan, but the founder of Pre-crime.There was no civil war, and the world did not seem to be a wasteland. They were able to use more technological effects that would only belong in a well developed future.