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Review of Novel and Movie: Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens


Muhammad Faruq Bukhori
13020117140087

FILM AND LITERATURE ASSIGNMENT
NOVEL AND MOVIE: OLIVER TWSIT

It said that both Film and Novel tell long stories with a wealth of detail and they do it from the persepective of narrator, who often interposes a resonant level of irony between the story and the observer. Film and novel are totally different while novel tell people the story and film show people the story. The images in the film have more direct and immediate relationship to what it describes, while reading a novel requires imagination. The film audiences could receive the information from both images and sounds, while the novel readers only from the text.
In this paper I would like to tell you about the major differences between oliver twist novel and oliver twist movie. Oliver Twist novel was written by Charles Dickens while Oliver Twist movie was Roman Polanski’s adaptation and this movie released in 11th September 2005. The setting in book and movie is about orphanage. Oliver Twist is The novel’s protagonist. Oliver is an orphan born in a workhouse. When I saw the movie, I was shocked by the first plot of the movie, and it shown the story of chapter ii in Oliver Twist Novel. In book the first chapter tells about the birth of Oliver while in the first image of the movie shown Mr. Bumble bring oliver to the workhouse.
In the chapter I of the novel it is said that Oliver was a parish boy, and his mother name is Agnes Flemming. In movie of oliver twist that I saw, oliver’s mother didn’t show up in the whole movie scene. In novel tells about his mom who give birth while in movie didn’t show that at all. Oliver twist is protagonist in both movie and book. The character of Oliver Twist have same character in book and movie, he is small and weak young boy. When I saw the movie in scene when oliver want to get more food in workhouse was the dramatic scene same as when I read the novel “Please Sir, I want some more”. That is the best line that come from book and movie. On these scene I saw that Oliver forced by his friends in workhouse to ask some more food, and it doesn’t same like what the book described. In the book it said that Oliver dare to ask some more food not forced by his friends.
In the movie it shows the London as the city where oliver twist started his journey, when I saw the book and the movie, seems like London is a bad city to living, there is to many thief and bad people out there. The same story when oliver was from the countryside and he started to walk to London by foot but when I saw the movie at the middle of the way oliver falling down and he get rescued by the old lady, before that he get rejected at another house for asking some food to eat.
There is a lot character that I haven’t seen in the movie of Oliver Twist such as Mr. Fang, Tom Chitling, Mr. Giles, Mr. Brittles, Monk, Mr. Lasberne, Agnes flemming and many other. I don’t know why in Polanski’s adaptation those characters are not there. Perhaps, about the duration of the movie, I think.
Back into the movie and book, after Oliver arrived in London he get rest and he met young gentleman. Then oliver talks to him, the young gentleman is artful doger. Dodger bring oliver to his place, and in that place oliver met dodger’s friends and fagin. The interesting scene in book that dickens describe fagin as the jew and in the movie his religion is not mentioned. In the book dickens always named fagin as “The Jew”.
Oliver in fagin’s place he get trained how to pickpocketing with his new friends there. In the other scene Oliver and dodger tries to steal sniffer from mr.brownlow, but didn’t succeed because they get caught. On that time dodger run away from that situation but oliver don’t and he get blamed for it.
In the final scene is where bill sikes and nancy are killed. Bill is a professional burglar brought up in fagin’s gang and he is nancy’s pimp and lover. Nancy is killed by bill, bill kills nancy with his cane. In the movie bill sikes dead because he hung himself.
The book of Oliver twist by Charles dickens perhaps described social life in England during victorian era. The film was so good to watch I can say this movie not really same like what book tells many differences that I found such as lack of the character in movie.



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