This blog post is separate from and in addition to the 1000-word assignment that is also due next Monday. However, the 1000-word assignment can be an expansion of any blog post you have written previously, including this week's.
Choose one of the following and respond with a post of about 200 words to the forum on turnitin.com. Read posts made before yours and do not duplicate them!
Due 10/10/2011
1. Where in the book is Prejean most convincing in her arguments against death penalty? Is this scene or moment conveyed successfully in the film? If so, how is it done? If not, what is the problem?
2. Where in the book is Prejean least convincing in her arguments against death penalty? Is this improved upon in the film? If so, how?
3. Choose one scene in the film that has no origin in the book and discuss why it was added, how it furthered or detracted from the film's ideas. Are these ideas that don't exist in the book, or are they new ways of presenting the book's ideas?
4. What is the contrast between Prejean's two advisees, and which aspects of them was the film most interested in preserving to create the hybrid character of Matthew Poncelet?
5. Defend the following statement with specific examples: The film version of Dead Man Walking took an undramatic book that meandered and lapsed into speeches and transformed it into a movie with dramatic appeal, but also filled with Hollywood cliches and overly familiar tropes.
6. What differences are there in the religious views of book-Helen and movie-Helen?
