After viewing Jonathan Demme's film Beloved, I felt as I usually do upon watching a movie based on a novel, disappointed. Films rarely live up to the expectations set up by a great novel and this is due to the limitations of working with film as a medium. This paper will attempt to exploit these limitations and explain why Toni Morrison's novel, Beloved, is superior to its film version. A major ... film lies in the order in which the events take place. In the novel, Morrison wonderfully weaves in and out of the past and present while retaining the interest of the reader, who simultaneously i...

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