Devil and Daniel webster moviebook comparison
In the movie and the short story, "The Devil and Daniel Webster", written by Stephen Vincent Benet, there is illustrated the battle between the forces of good and evil. Although the story allows the reader to mentally picture the scenes and the movie does the depicting for the viewer, there are several similarities in each script. Some of these similarities are the way the characters are depicted and the final scene. There are several incongruous scenes between the short story and the way the movie unfolds. The differences are the amount of time that is spent on the character development, also there are some scenes added into the movie such as the harvest dance and the reminder of the contract. There are three main characters in this short story/movie. They are Scratch, Daniel Webster, and Jabez Stone. The actors picked for the roles fit almost perfectly to the descriptions of the characters in the short story. Scratch is described as a " soft-spoken, dark-dressed stranger...white teeth...were filed to a point". As shown in the movie the actor was also a very darkly clad man. He also had a very soft, hypnotic voice and whenever he smiled his teeth were very shiny and pointy. The
The farmer's were there at first to get him to join the Populist movement and the Farmer's Guild. He just laughed at Daniel and told him he'd get him in the presidency race. This is one thing about the movie that I didn't like because it distracted from the whole idea of the contract he made. " In the movie Jabez is seen more throughout the unfolding of the tale and his family life was a little different. Her mother and the farmers, who weren't even mentioned in the short story, were there to act as Jabez's conscious. The last character, Jabez Stone, wasn't given a very active role in the short story, but he was described as " an unlucky man. His wife, her mother, the neighboring farmers and the housekeeper were also given more substantial roles in the movie. The first of these is the way the characters are depicted. The ending to the short story took place in Jabez's barn and consisted of a jury filled with the ruthless dead. Stevens' contract is up and Scratch turns him into a moth and places him in the box. However the scenes he decided to add and the characters he expanded on were a great choice and brought the story alive.
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