Films that are based on novels when compared often have many similarities and
             differences. The Beach directed by Danny Boyle and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Guillaume
             Canet, Robert Carlyle and Virginie Ledoyen. The genre of this film is Adventure/Drama because
             of the intense moments in the movie and because the movie is one big trip to an island. I think
             this film is overwhelming because of the extreme details. For instance the starting of the film when
             Richard describes how travelling should be done, I also love this film because of the unique
             The Beach is about a traveller named Richard (Leonardo DiCaprio) who sets off to
             Thailand searching for an adventure. Accepting every offer, he feels like nothing can stand in his
             way. When he is lying in his bed that night he hears an obnoxious Scottish man named Daffy Duck
             (Robert Carlyle) who breaks into his room and tells Richard about an exquisite beach. The
             following day he finds a map to this infamous beach; when going into Daffy's room to thank him
             he finds him dead. Richard immediately accepting the offer of the map goes and asks two other
             people to join him on his trek, Francoise(Virginie Ledoyen) and Etienne(Guillaume Canet) who
             also accept the challenge. When getting there they discover a dope field run by Thai drug lords
             they manage to escape only to find a small village run by happy people. The village people easily
             accepted them as a part of the group. A leader runs them named Sal(Tilda Swinton) and
             everything is fine until a series of critical events happen; a shark attacks three village fishermen,
             Richard begins to go insane and the secret of the beach begins to be exposed to the world. This
             story takes place in Thailand and more specifically in the city of Koh Panhagen and in the isles of
             Likewise, to the book the movie has the same plot along with the same setting and most of the
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