Comparison/Contrast Gene Shepard's Christmas Story
Gene Shepard's In God We Trust, All others pay cash vs. The Christmas StoryThe book, In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash, is a summary of childhood experiences told by the author when he was a middle aged man when he was visiting his hometown again. The book contained two different periods of his childhood. The familiar movie, The Christmas Story, was based on the revisited elementary years rather than the teenage years described in the book.The book will seem very familiar when watching the movie. In fact, most of the narration is a direct quotation. Due to the remembrances of two different periods, only half the book was used for the basis of the movie. Some of the scenes taken from the movie were amazingly accurate. Every mention of the little brother Randy was portrayed perfectly. The opening of the Christmas display in the store window appears to be taken from the vivid imagery. Another scene that was taken line for line was the visit to Santa Claus. Every nuance of the elves, even Santa's menacing ho-ho-ho's, were played as verbatim. One other scene that comes to life is the classroom scene where they are given the theme
A lot of the bullying, thoughts about presents for others and the fake teeth all were cut down for the benefit of storytelling and time. The movie, however, turned a years worth of memories into a timeframe that seems less than a week. In fact, the book takes place over an entire year with many of the scenes happening in the summer. Because the book was looking back at a handful of moments, it did not have an ending in the context of the movie. His toadie, Grover Dill, was the original book bully. The storyline takes place across several days leading up to Christmas and follows Ralphie and his interactions with others. Interestingly, the narration was performed by the author of the book. This really gave the movie the feel he intended. Several of the characters of the movie were not as they appeared in the book. The family could not afford to drink Ovaltine and only the finding of a stray can in an ally is how Ralphie was able to send for the decoder pin. It did organize the thoughts into what would make a better flowing story. Although quite a bit different, the movie really does keep the essence of the book. The bully, Scot Farcus, was not even in the book. This is why the dogs ate the Christmas turkey and forced the family to eat at a Chinese restaurant.
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