... to these factors then surely the film is just a spin-off of the book or an original piece of work. Another big budget film that has been released recently is Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, taken from a series of books by J. K. Rowling. The film portrays the events in the book almost exactly, due to the fact that it is ... in the viewer's mind and cannot have the same effect as when the book is read. The nature of what is being presented has to be changed in order for the same effect to be received. It sounds like a contradiction but in this case, what is being presented must...

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... minister of Canada, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, past away. Some films that were released within the time period of the Cannes film festival were Traffic, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Harry Potter. This film was received very differently by everyone. Robert Ebert gave it 3 ½ stars out of 4 and said, "Dancer in the Dark is a brave throwback to the fundamentals of the cinema ... what while happen later on, but unless the audience thinks about what might happen then they will have no clue. In this way, the audience will need to participate in order to stay involved in the film, to be able...

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