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Scarlet Letter, The

I found the movie really very fasinated. It gave me the
power to love someone,and an encourage. I had also read the
book, but �t differs from the movie. I must confess that I
love the movie more.

When Demi Moore was filming this farrago five years ago,
she and director Roland Joffe said that in their opinion,
there was nothing wrong with writing a free adaptation of
Hawthorne's famous novel because "noone's ever read it!"
Wrong! My Pa has a whole set of the "World's Greatest
Literature" at home, which is kept on a bookshelf in my
room, and includes the original masterpiece written by
Hawthorne. There can be no doubt about it, the filmmakers
true intention was to humiliate the source material, which
is quite a common trend these days in Hollywood, and to
insult the feminist movement as well. Well, thanks a lot,
jerks. You ruined a perfectly good 17th century feminist
novel. If Edward D. Wood Jr. had a multi-million dollar
budget, and some [allegedly]top actors at his disposal,
this is the kind of movie he would make. I just cannot
believe those movie idiots could be so stupid and
ridiculous. In any event, forget it.

The movie is alwful.

I have read the book and compared to this peice of crap
called a movie, the bookis like god. The movie had nothing
to do with the book, absolutely nothing. And Demi Moore
needs to look up onher history a little more. She says that
the book is boring and nobody reas it right, well I'd like
to see her stupid wannabe self write a book. She know's
nothing. I don't know what people see in that movie. Yuo
should read the book, it's really good, expecially if you
know the
PPURITAN HISTORY. then you'll get the whole perspective of
the book and it is so much more interesting then it is the
first time you read it. Demi Moore is a terrible Hester
Prynn. I have nothing against her, but shit, she needs to
shut up when saying stuff she doesn't even know she saying.

I am now doin a report on Nathaniel Hawethorn and I find
his writings truly fascinating. His courage to portray the
mistakes and immoralities of our goverment's past is truly
uplifting. But I find that the movie had little to do with
the book. It simply couldnt grasp the concept of struggle
and hypocrisy that was made so evident in the book.
Unfortunately I am afraid that no movie could do for anyone
what the book did. For the directors and producers are for
lack of a better phraze 'not in tune with the arts'. They
are too worried about tryin to capture the attention of
thier watchers with sappy love stories than trying to
portray a realistic view of a movie.What we need is
producers with a more artistic comprehension of Screenplay-
Ash

The movie was just a classic view of what directors and
producers think movie-goers want to see. It is really sad
that it takes sex, gore, nudity, and rape to captivate an
audience, but maybe that's just the difference between
those who would actually take time to read a book, and
those who would rather just watch a ridiculous "freely-
adapted" version of it for 2 hours and 15 minutes.