Hills like White Elephants

Hills like White Elephants

The best thing about the short video is that it was a cinema where the twin railroad tracks with little bars look similar to how they are pictured when you read the story. The landscape looks exactly as it seems, following the Hemingway description though I did not see any hills resembling white elephants. The author stretches out the story by adding personal dialogue, which sounds offensive because they can’t write good dialogue like Hemingway. And because of that, it looks more like desecration to plaster their mediocre dialogue on the existing dialogue. Amazingly, they thought of doing that, but perhaps they felt the film would have become shorter. That could be the main reason to stretch the entire story in the video. They have not improved the story or simplified it for easier understanding.

However, the photographer and the director of the movie made it a success in creating a great setting to visualize. The two main characters, the man and the woman, didn’t appear like how people imagined them while reading the story. They do not have a lot of things to talk about as if they are repeating similar statements, for example, “I want you to do it” or ‘I don’t want to do it. I noted in the credits that some character that the actress played was known as Hadley, who was Hemingway’s first wife. As I do, the screenwriters must have had it in their minds that the girl in Hemingway’s story was married, and he was writing from a personal experience.

Reference

Rankin, P. (2005). Hemingway’s Hills Like White Elephants. The Explicator, 63(4), 234-237

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Hills like White Elephants

Popular books are often turned into movies. From hours-long feature movies to short documentaries like the one you watched in Required Resources about “Hills Like White Elephants,” these adaptations reflect the director’s personal take on the literary text, how they envision a book’s conflict, theme, setting, etc. For this week’s Discussion Board:

1. Explain how the short video on “Hills Like White Elephants” compares to your interpretation of the story (what is similar to your interpretation?; where do you see things differently?).

2. Share your experience of reading a book and seeing the movie version of it. (If you have no such experience, write your whole main post about Question 1).