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Comparison

I have chosen the first beach scene to compare. This is the scene where we first meet the children and get to know them.

The first thing that isn’t the same. The fire truck we saw in the series. It is a flash-forward and gives the viewer a hint on what’s going to happen in the future.

The series itself is much more detailed and gives much more information about the children. We also have a picture on so we can see their facial expressions and already there we know more about them compared to the book. In the movie, the parents sent the children to the beach on “vacation”. While they are on the way, they are wondering why their parents didn’t want to come. A couple of minutes into the scene Klaus says “it’s not like them to send us off on our own so unexpectedly”. In the book, they occasionally get permission to go to the beach.

In the movie, the rider of the rickety trolley asks them why they aren’t going to the festive funfair. Where they replay that is a perfect day to go to the beach. And in the book, no one asks them about the festive funfair. Like I said earlier the Series I more detailed.

In the book the oldest of the tree, violet skipped rocks and while she did that the was thinking of an invention that could bring back the rocks she skipped. In the series, though she already had the invented and she used it. It worked perfectly. I think the reason why she already had it in the series is that it makes it more interesting to watch. Instead of seeing her thinking of something that could bring it back then actually have it.

While they are skipping rocks, they are also quoting famous people and they aren’t doing that in the book. It gives us as a viewer the impression that they are really smart and know a lot since they know and can remember all those quotes. And again, it is there to make the series more interesting and fast-paced.

The narrator says to the viewer that now I would be a perfect time to leave and pretend that I would end happily. In the book that comment isn’t there.

A reason why the series is a faster pace and more detailed is because it makes it much more interesting to watch. If the series where slower and less detailed/unclear it would make the viewer bored and that’s not what the intention. While the book is slower and there aren’t as many details. It is because if you won’t read the book you sit down and immerse yourself into the book. You need a slower pace because are makes the book more interesting and the reader just wants to read more.

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A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS

I have chosen the scene about Violet and her inventions (Second page line 19-39)

In the book narrator says that violet skips further with her right hand then her left hand, and we don’t hear witch hand she uses to throw the rock, but in the series Klaus Says to her that she should use her right hand because its better, instead of her left hand witch she were about to use.

We also don’t see any scenes in the series that tells us that people that know Violet knows that she’s thinking hard, because of her hair being tied up in a ribbon, so her hair didn’t go in her eyes to bother her.

In the book Violet wants to construct a device that could retrieve a rock after you had skipped it into the ocean. In the series Violet has already invented that device that retrieved her stone.

I think the reason that they added a scene of Klaus saying she should use her right hand instead of the left because there’s a higher chance that she would skip the stone further is included so Klaus sounds more clever, instead of saying nothing.

I think they didn’t include the sentence from the book that says: “many people know Violet is thinking hard, because of her hair being tied up in a ribbon”, because in the series it sounds like not many people know them personally. So not many people know her personally, so they don’t know if she’s thinking hard or not.

In the series Violet had already made the machine that retrieves her stones. I think they include the device in the series, because its hard to describe a machine with words, instead of seeing it fully working with your own eyes, and because people wants to see her invention and not just hear her wanting to build it.

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At the book page 22 to 25 and in the series 18,26 to around minute 24

Both the screen and the book start off with Klaus knocks on door, they wait a second and then Count Olaf opens the door. In the series Count Olaf stands on the roof looking down on the children while Mr. Poe rings the doorbell. Count Olaf is frozen for a moment, and then he goes down to open the dor. The reason of the tv series is different then the book in this screen can be that it needs some more action in a movie than a book. Also, it brings some fun into the movie that has a age references to 7+, so it can not all be depressing.

In the book Count Olaf opens the door and says hallo tree times and ask them to come in, he seems very polite. In the movie Count Olaf does practice his hallo many times before opening the door. Just before opening the door he looks in the keep hold even though he knows who they are. He does also say hallo tree times but does act different by introducing himself as an actor and their guardian and there are a lot more attention on his ankle tattoo showing an eye. The movie is different from the book because we must know which roll Count Olaf plays in the movie. In the book we will find out eventually.

In the series, they step into Count Olaf’s mansion he talks about his humble house, and then askes the Baudelaire children to bring their money so they can help him fix it. But Mr. Poe introduces him self and tell Olaf that the Baudelaire money is not to be used until Violet is at age. Count Olaf askes who Violet is, and Poe tell him who Violet is. After woods Poe tell Olaf about the very specific requirements about how the children is to be raised and how the money is going to be used. In the book Olaf seams mad after such news but than he shuts it off and are going on about that he is used to live like that. The differences from the book to the movie is to make Olaf seam oblivious about the children but only has interest in their inheriting.

The last scene in the book is where they say goodbye and Mr. Poe tell the children always to come to his office if they has any questions, Olaf tell the children that he has a map over the city so they can ask him about the direction. In the movie Mr. Poe say goodbye to the children and that they always are welcome to ask about anything if they come to his office, but Olaf is showing Poe out very quick, so the children is not able to say anything. The movie is in such a hurry to set Count Olaf in a bad light.

The last scene in the movie is a house tour to show the children the house. The house tour is not mentioned in the book because in the movie it is important to show the audience how bad the house is.

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Comparison between the book and the Netflix series

I chose the scene, where the Baudelaire children meets Justice Strauss for the first time. In the book it is from the last line on page 18 to the middle of page 20. And in the Netflix series it is from around 16:50 to around 18:20.

First up there is a small thing they did not have in the series right off the bat, which is Mr. Poe saying: “Here we are,” and “Your new home.” In the series they just cut directly to them talking to Justice Strauss. I don’t really know why they would do this, or if it, as it probably was, was intentionally. It could be to save some time for the rest of the scene.

In the book Mr. Poe just barely gets introduced, but in the series, he is giving his card to Justice Strauss and talk about his future promotion. This is probably, because they somehow made Mr. Poe look pretty creepy in the series, and I think they wanted to keep that impression.

When Justice Strauss talks, she is saying way more in the series than in the book. In the book she is holding a flowerpot, and in the series, she is holding 3 bags of groceries, and she is saying a lot about how she needs one to repair her food processor, which is perfect for Violet, because she is very good at machines. She also tells about her private library, which would be perfect for Klaus, since he loves reading. And then she also says, she forgot to buy a bread knife for her baguette, which Sonny really wants to help with, since she loves biting stuff, and she has very sharp teeth. And none of all this is presented in the book. They probably added this to the series to make her look a little bit more “perfect” for the children to live with. This would probably be to give the viewers some more hope even though the narrator many times says, that it is going to be a terrible story you still hope and maybe think it will turn out well.

As one of the only things they talk about in the book, they also talk about their parents, who perished. In the series they don’t even name them. I don’t know why they would keep that out, but I think it is because they want that scene to be a happy scene, and don’t make it sad by reminding the Baudelaire’s and the viewers.

And the last little thing they changed in the Netflix series is, that Count Olaf is living on the other side of the street instead of next door. That is probably to keep the dark mansion out of the shot, when they are talking to Justice Strauss, and probably also to make that dramatic 180 turn in the end of the scene.

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Lemony Snickett - Comparison

I have chosen the beach scene at the beginning of the novel/tv series. And before we move on to comparison the two identical scenes, I will just say that every time I write N/T it will stand for a shorter version for “novel/tv series”.

In the novel the scene begins on page 2 line 19. In the tv series the scenes start around at 3 min and 30 seconds. Here the children arrive at the beach from the rickety trolley. Violet Baudelaire, the eldest, wanted to skip rocks at the beach, and the reason why they didn’t do it, on a warm and sunny day, is because they wanted to avoid other people. This is told in both scenes by the children. If we skip ahead to page 4 line 23 or 7 min and 28 seconds. Here we are introduced to a mysterious figure, that is describe in the novel as a tall figure that looks like an adult. In the tv series they only say this. “It only seems scary, because of all the mist.” This is the only thing that the N/T have in common. In the novel the children are talking to each other, about the figure. The tv series they just jump right into it, when they find out that it is Mr. Poe. When the children and Mr. Poe, are standing in front of each other. In the novel, it is explained how the children know Mr. Poe. But in the tv series you don’t get to know why they know him. Just a few seconds after they have meet Mr. Poe, you can see in the tv series, that he is coughing into a red handkerchief. But in the novel, it is described as a white handkerchief. On page 8 line 1 or 8 min and 30 seconds. Mr. Poe then tells the children that Your parents have perished/died in a terrible fire. There are many other small details in the book they didn’t show in the tv series, and the other way around.

In the book you get a lot more details than the tv series, and the reason for that is, when people are watching tv series, they don’t want to many details told, because then it will really long, and they will get bored. But when people are reading a book, they wanted those extra details. Because in a book you normally only get a person decried one, but with many details. In a tv series, you don’t get as much told, about the charter, because you get to see them all the time. So, describing isn’t that important in a tv series or a movie.

An important thing to remember, is that ever second in a movie or a tv series cost money to make. It cost a lot of money, I mean a holy fucking lots of money, to shot ever single scene. And that is why a lot of things in a movie or tv series is cut short from the book. They latterly don’t have the budget to copy ever single scene to the smallest details. The tv series task, is to get you as a viewer, to continue watching the show. So they normally ends the episode in a clip hanger.

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I’ve chosen to write about the scene, when the Violet, Klaus and Sunny are preparing/serving the food to Count Olaf and his troupe.

Page 44-52 in the book

35:15-44:25 in the Netflix series

In the book, when the orphans are coming home from the ingredients shopping, they go straight to the kitchen and start preparing the food. Count Olaf and his troupe is not at home at the given time, but suddenly the door is flung open and Count Olaf and his troupe enters the house. The troupe walks into the dining room and Count Olaf immediately enters the kitchen, to take a look at the food the orphans have prepared. Count Olaf notices that they have made puttanesca sauce instead of roast beef. He moves closer the orphans and says, “I demand that you serve roast beef to myself and my guests.” Count Olaf picks up Sunny and raise her in front of his face. The orphans start crying and shouting. The theater troupe walks into the kitchen. At this time, we’re introduced to the theater troupe. They dislike the orphans as much as Count Olaf. Count Olaf and his theater troupe, then walks to the dining room to get some wine. When some time has passed, they begin pounding on the table. The orphans enter the dining room with the food and walks around the table, serving the food. When they are finished serving the food, they go straight back to the kitchen.

In the TV-series, when they enter Count Olaf’s house, they are “welcomed” by a song/dance by Count Olaf and his troupe. When Count Olaf and his troupe are finished with their song/dance, they go the dining room to get some wine. When some time has passed, Count Olaf shouts “When are we going to eat?”, at the same time the orphans enter the dining room with the food. When the orphans walk around the table, serving the food, Count Olaf notices that they have made puttanesca sauce instead of roast beef. He starts discussing with the orphans and saying that the food is horrible, and that his guests hardly can touch the “revolting foreign food”. Even though the guests are eating the food, without any complains. Count Olaf takes Sunny from Violets arms and raise her above his head. Then he puts Sunny on a silver plate and pushes her down the table. One of the guests asks about the chocolate pudding desert, but Olaf commands the orphans to clean the table, and go straight to their beds. Klaus complains, about that Olaf only has given them one bed. Count Olaf then starts to talk about the enormous fortune, that the orphans are inheriting.

Because of the difference in the introduction of the theater troupe, we no idea who the theater troupe is in the book until the end of the scene. They have probably changed this, so we could get a better understanding of each person.

There’s a big difference, between the book and TV-series, when the orphans are preparing/serving the food, because in the book Count Olaf starts discussing with the orphans in the kitchen, but in the TV-series, Count Olaf starts discussing with the orphans in the dining room, while the food is getting served. The theater troupe doesn’t dislike the orphans, but they must pretend that they do, otherwise Count Olaf is probably going to fire them. In the TV-series, they have probably changed this to get some contrast in scene and to make the theater troupe feel as better people than Count Olaf.

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The part of the series I have chosen to analyse spans from the beginning to 11:50 which in the book is the same as from page 1, line 1 to page 13 line 5.

The book and the movie starts off almost completely the same. The narrator tells a bit of backstory. There are only minor changes to what the narrator in the tv-series say compared to the book. However, in the book we do not get told about how the narrator looks or where the narrator is currently located as we do in the tv-series. The reason this is different is because it would be very weird to have a disjointed voice as the narrator.

The differences continue when the camera pans up from the sewers. We see the Baudelaire children riding the rickety trolley. If you notice the baby sunny that Violet is holding in her arms, you will be able to see that sunny is quite a bit larger than a boot contradicting what is written in the book. The reason for this is simply that it is very hard to find a toddler that size that can be an “actor”. In the book they say that what sunny lacks in size she makes up for with the sharpness of her teeth. And in the movie the say the same but instead of what she is lacking in size they say what she is lacking in communication skills. This is again because of practical reasons, but also because it is a series where communication is a more crucial factor.

A few seconds later the camera pans out and to the left where you can see a fire-engine. This is foreshadowing what is to come and is often used in movies. There is no mention of the fire-engine in the book. This creates some mystery, which is very important in a tv-series, that retains the viewer.

In the series, when the rickety trolley has arrived at the beach and the kids get off the driver says to them why they are going to the beach on such a grey day. To further communicate that it is weird that they are going to the beach that day.

In the movie they show two scenes. One where they show Violet where she invents things and one where they show Klaus where he reads and reflects. This helps the viewer to get an understanding of the characters’ traits.

When they are on the beach in the book, they just pick up a rock and skips it across the water and. There are no inventions and no rock biting. The reason that the movie has altered this is so we also get to know what sunny is good at and to get more content otherwise that scene could appear a bit dull.

When Mr. Poe emerges from the “mist” in the series, it is very easy to see what he looks like compared to the movie where there is several lines of text to figure it out. This makes the series easier to follow and as it doesn’t confuse the audience as much.

When Mr. Poe takes them back to the mansion Klaus finds a spyglass. This is not a part of the book but it gives the series more content to make it last longer.

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Cooking scene
I have chosen the cooking scene. In the book it is form page 44 to 48, and the series it is from the time 38:30 to 40:08

Both the book and the series start the same. It is descripted in the book that the Baudelaire’s uses most of the afternoon cooking. And in the series are they cooking from when they came home, till it was dinner time.

There is no monolog from the narrator in the book, the Baudelaire’s just goes straight to cooking. But there is a monolog form the narrator in the series. He talks about one of his friends who is a philosopher and a cook. After the monolog, the children is preparing the meal for Count Olaf, there is an slight difference her, as it was mentioned in the scene before this were they are buying the food, that they bought the pasta, but in the series Violet is repairing the pasta maker and making it herself. Other than that, the rest of the cooking is similar. The children spoke about memories of their parents, that is also a similarity for the book and series.

The rest of the scene is different in the book and series. In the series the cooking scene stops and changes location to the dining hall where the rest of the story is played. In the book the scene continues where Count Olaf is criticizing them for not making roast beef.

It is hard for a movie to follow a book precisely. In movies it’s about prioritizing what is important to have in the movie and how it makes the most sense. The scene that I chose was very similar with a few changes, the book focused more on the ‘fight’ at the end, and in the series it was split up to a new scene so it was easier to get it more detailed without making the cooking scene long and so that the scene didn’t lose some of the stories important parts, like the conversation the children had.

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Scene: Briny Beach

The scene starts at about 3 minutes into the Netflix series, and stops at about 8.30.

In the book, the scene starts at page 2 and stops at about page 6.

In the book, A Series of Unfortunate Events, they arrive at the beach on the second page, as the first thing in the actual story. Except for the few moments they spend on the rickety trolley. I believe this is to keep the reader’s attention, as that is harder to do in a book than in a movie. Later, the narrator describes the children, and the one who’s special is Sunny, the toddler, who’s described as not much larger than a shoe. In the Netflix series, Sunny is obviously bigger than a shoe, and therefore they must go with something else. They describe Sunny as having communication troubles, which makes more sense for a big toddler, than being slightly bigger than a shoe. As they step off the trolley they go directly to the beach and lay down their blanket. In the Netflix series though, the first thing that happens, is the introduction of the Baudelaire children. Short after a fire truck drives by, which is never even mentioned in the book. This might be because they need to keep some action or drama in the movie, since that’s what we usually watch them for. As they step off the trolley, they are greeted by, what seems to be, the trolley captain. He asks them if they would like to go to the festival. This never happens in the book, as it would be a waste of the reader’s attention span. In fact, the environment isn’t really mentioned in the book, except for the grey and cloudy weather, whereas in the Netflix series they don’t need to describe the environment, we’re looking right at it. In the middle of the Briny Beach scene in the Netflix series another scene is shown of the Baudelaire children in the home, working on a grandfather clock together. Again, this is never mentioned in the book. And that might be because of the difficulty of showing someone’s intelligence in a movie, without having them do anything to demonstrate. In the book as Violet is skipping rocks she’s thinking about the creation of her next invention. The said invention has already been created in the series and is introduced when it’s used to retract the rock from the water. It’s really hard to show what a person is thinking about in a movie; therefore, they have chosen to show the final result of Violets brilliant mind instead.

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I have chosen the scene at the ending of page 28 and the most on page 29 in the book.

In the movie, we see when count Olaf gives Klaus, Sunny and Violet a bedroom for sharing whit one bed.  Then the movie shows us that there are dirty and such things, but we do not hear about how they distribute the bed space. But the book describes how they distribute the bad space, it tells “Every other night one of them was in the bed and the other was sleeping on the hard wooden floor”.  I think that the reason why tell it in the book but not in the movie is because in the movie you can see how bad it is for the children, but in a book, you need to explain a lot more than in a movie. So when the book tells that only one of them slept in the bed and the other on the floor you know it is bad compared to if the book had said that they shared one bed. It is still bad sharing one bed when you are 3 persons but not that bad compared to sleep on the floor.

The book also tells us that Violet built a bed for Sunny by removing the dusty curtains from the curtains rod, which it does not tell us in the movie either. And again it just shows how bad it is. You form your own images when you read a book, so the author needs to describe a lot more than in a movie if he/she wants to make sure that the reader knows how the room looks like.

And one last thing they tell us in the book but not in the movie in the same scene is were the book say “And the only decoration on the peeling walls was a large and ugly painting of an eye, matching the one on Count Olaf’s ankle and all over the house.”.  Again you need to describe a lot more in a book than in a movie. So I think that the reason why they in the book tell us about the painting is that when Klaus, Violet, and Sunny came to count Olaf, Klaus thought that count Olafs tattoo was creepy and he was an evil man. So again to make sure that the reader knows how scary it is for the children to be whit count Olaf. It also shows that count Olaf is a self-absorbed man who does not think about other peoples than himself. It is clear that count Olaf is a self-absorbed man because he only sees the children as some servants, not as children that hi need to take care of. He does not understand that the children came to him because they need a home and someone to take care of them not because they wanted to be servants. Count Olaf does not understand that the children are sad because they think that they have lost their parents either.

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I picked it because in the beach scene where we get to know the children and all the bad things began to happen and it’s because in the series this scene have more important then it was in the book and I found that interesting.

When they get to the beach the man who controls the rickety trolly ask them if they don’t want to go to the “festive fun fair, with all jolly rides and games and snacks?” (3:40 Netflix) but this never happens in the book.
This change was made to give the world a bid of life, as a viewer it would be weird if the world didn’t have a reaction on the thing the did. But things like this would have been irritating to read.

Butten of page 2 and the top of page 3 we get some facts about violet in the book they say that “she was looking out at the horizon and thinking about an invention she wanted to build.” In the series they uses flashbacks(4:20-4:54 and they do this to give more life to this idea that she likes inventions by showing us one of hers and that gives a more connection so we have it like we know her so then bad thing happen we feel bad for her.

They also do it with the brother there in the flashback we see that him and his sister(oldest one) not understanding passage of Proust “happiness is beneficial for the body, but is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”(5:10-5:25) and that shows us that there life have probably been without grief until that paint because that say it must be in translation something happened. All of that was not in the book and that’s because it would have been to boring to reed because in a series they can make this fast skips in the scenes but in a book it takes some time to get something in the scene with only words.

In the series we have this there violet throws a skipping rock and uses her invitation to get the stone again and you zoom in on the narrator there he says “this would be a perfect time to leave”(6:10-7:45) and this not in the book. They do this thing the book did there it was “you would be better off reading some other book.” Because the book is not a happy one. Series just take it to a new level there after one time advising the viewer to stop watching they do it again just before all the bad thing start happening. This does that you questing if you should because they do it more times.

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I have chosen the scene, where the tree Baudelaire children first meets Count Olaf. The scene starts at around 18:50 and ends at 21:26 in the Netflix series and at page 21 line 20.

It starts up in both the series and the text with Mr. Poe ringing the bell in one and knocking the door in the other. In the text Olaf checks who it is and opens the door, but in the series, we can hear, how he is practicing, how to greed them through the door.  In the series the children take a look at Olaf from top to toe including the tattoo, but in the text, they spot it later on. In the series Olaf says your welcome, when he says he´ll be their guardian, since he expected a “thank you” from the children.

When Olaf asks them to wipe off the mud, Mr. Poe finds it stupid in the text, because its already so muddy inside, but in the series Mr. Poe doesn´t seem to mind it.  In both scenes we get a good look at the room and how dirty it is. In the text we hear how Klaus tries not to cry. In the series Mr. Poe introduces himself and the fact he is from the bank. He then moves on to tell about the Baudelaire fortune and how it is not to be used until Violet is of age. Here Olaf asks who Violet is (the baby or the girl) and Mr. Poe answer “the eldest”. Olaf goes on and says that he hopes to be the father they never had, where the children says they had a father, and he replies “Yes, I know. And a mother. Remarkable woman. Flammable. In the series he asks if there is something he needs to sign? Mr. Poe looks weirdly at him and then Olaf asks him to leave.

Mr. Poe says they can always contact the bank. In the text the children comply, that they don’t know where the bank is, and Olaf then says he has a map of the city.

They made some differences, when comparing the text with the series. First of all we have the start where in the series, they can hear how Olaf practiced how he would say hello, which made the scene a bit bore comedy. They when he opens the door, both the children and Mr. Poe look down at the tattoo in the series, where in the text they discover this when Olaf closes the door for Mr. Poe at the end. It seems like they made it a bit more “challenging” for the children in the text than in the series, like they had to be smart to check out Olaf, when he wasn’t watching.

Another big difference is when Olaf asks who Violet is, or when he expected a thank you from the children, or when he directly says to the children, “your mother was a remarkable woman. Flammable”. It just seems like they tried making him less mysterious and mature and more childish and stupid in the series compared to the book.

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Comparative Analysis
I have chosen one of the first scenes in the story, which is the scene at the beach. Page 2-10. 3:40-9:30.

In the book, they arrive at the beach and then Violet starts skipping rocks, and that triggers an idea of a machine that can retrieve the rocks. The narrator also describes Violet and tells about thoughts about inventions. Then they move on to Klaus and tells about how much he likes to read and how intelligent he is. Finally, they tell about Sunny. Here they tell about the few words she knows and that she is tiny but has very sharp teeth. Then Sunny says a sound and points in the direction of a “mysterious figure emerging from the fog”. The figure coughs a lot. When the figure gets closer to them, they see that it is Mr. Poe, a friend of their parents. They talk about what a nice day it is, but Mr. Poe changes the subject quickly and tells them that their house has burned down, and their parents are dead. Afterwards he tells them that he is the executer of their parents’ estate. Then he tells them to come with him, and they walk away together.

In the Netflix-series, they arrive at the beach and the narrator starts them immediately. When they describe both Violet and Klaus, we see a scene from their house. With Violet we see one of her inventions and with Klaus we see him saying something very intelligent, to prove that she is good at inventing and he is really intelligent. When they describe Sunny, they don’t tell about her size, but more about her communication skills and makes her eat some of a stone to show how sharp her teeth are. After the description of the children, they try out Violets new invention, that can retrieve the rocks they skipped. Then we hear the cough of a man walking towards them. When he gets closer, Violet see that it is Mr. Poe. They talk about how nice a day it is but then he tells that their house has burned down, and their parents are dead. He informs them that he is the executer of their parents’ estate. Then we see the narrator walking in a tunnel where he says that he has been investigating the fire and that the fire department did not reach the fire in time.

There are a lot of differences between the book and the Netflix-Series, which makes the story more exciting with both media. When they arrive at beach, they describe the three Baudelaire children, and in the book they just tell about them and try to explain how intelligent Klaus is for example, whereas in the series they show scenes from the library in their house, so that we both see and hear about them. They show the children more than they tell about them. This makes it feel more exciting for the viewer because it is not just a narrator telling about them. With Sunny, they show that her teeth are sharp by letting her eat a rock. In the book this would not have worked because you can’t describe something like that in an exciting way. Generally, they tend to show things in the series and describe them in detail in the book. This makes sense because it is the best way to make the different medias feel exciting. Another example of this is the invention that Violet thinks of in the book. In the series she has already invented it and shows it working.

Later in the end of this scene, we see the narrator walking in a tunnel, and telling about the investigation of the fire where in the book, it is Mr. Poe who tells them about all of this. The series also shows the narrator standing in the library as it burns down.

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Analysis of a scene in the book/series

Lemony Snickett

The Scene

Page 13-16 in the book.

12:13 - 13:54 in the series.

I chose the scene in which the orphans have dinner at Mr. Poe’s house with his family. They sit at the dining table and they are served boiled chicken. The orphans, Violet, Klaus and Sunny, gets their first impression on the family and it is not a good one. The fact that their parents had just died, doesn’t make things better for them. In this scene there is a bit of talking to get a feeling on who their new family is - even though they are told, that they have to leave next morning to find a real home for them.

I chose this scene because there is both a fun and a serious side to this scene. It is interesting to see how the orphans react to Mr. Poe’s to boys, because they are for sure something else.

The Comparison

the movie starts with a fun switch of scenes. The orphans are in the car with Mr. Poe, and he says “I’m sure you’ll become fast friends with Edgar and Albert”. Then the scene I’ve chosen starts with his two kids arguing about what kind of food they are going to eat. Quite hypocritical. And not a good first impression for the kids what so ever. As the movie here gives us a “surprise” moment, which makes it funnier, the book starts a very different place. It starts with describing the family as if the orphans had lived there for a while. Therefore, the funny side of the story has been taken out of the scene in the book.

The big difference in this scene in the book and the series comes when they start talking. In the book, the two kids start complaining about the orphans. They gossip about the youngest orphan, Sunny. And when the orphans are being told that they have to leave tomorrow for their new home, Albert, one of the two kids, says “Good. Now we can get our room back. I’m tired of sharing it. Violet and Klaus are always moping around, and are never any fun.” So, in the book the children are not being treated well at all. You get even more sympathy with them. It is clearly what the narrator wants us to think. Everything goes wrong for them. The book gives us hope about this new place they have to go to tomorrow. The movie on the other hand uses another method to give them hope about the new place they have to go to. The scene in the movie uses humor. But the “black sheep” - the ones we, from the orphan’s perspective, don’t like - changes from the kids to parents. The series constantly uses bad humor (you would call it dad-humor in Danish). It is bad joke on bad joke while the book is way more serious about their situation. One reason for that is that it can be hard to use the same kind of jokes in a book. It is easier to do it in a movie, because we can see faces and reactions. In books it could easily get misunderstood.

To conclude this scene is build up very different. The movie concentrate on the humor, where the book is more focused on the serious part of the situation they are in.

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I have chosen the scene where Mr. Poe arrives at the beach and tells the Baudelaire children that their parents died in a terrible fire that burned their mansion down. In the book that’s page 5-10, and in the series it’s at minute 7:29 to 9:20.

The dialog is very similar with only a few differences. In the book Lemony Snickett wrote that Mr. Poe took of his hat when he approached the Baudelaire children, but in the series, he wears a hat the entire time. In the ending of the scene Lemony Snickett wrote that they all walked off the beach hand in hand, but in the series, the scene just stops after he tells them about their parents and shift to another scene. In the book the children were told that they were going to live with Mr. Poe in the scene, but in the series, they show it later. They also mention the large fortune several times in the book, but in the series, you hear about that much later. In the book, you can read how the Baudelaire children feels and what they think, but in the series, you can only see it in their facial expressions, by what they say and then the Lemony Snickett character tells you a little bit about it in between the scenes.

In movies and series, you don’t have a lot of time to tell the story compared to a book, where you have all the time in the world. In the visual form of a story you must choose how you want to prioritize with your characters and you script in order to have the best series. In the start of the scene where Mr. Poe is supposed to take of his hat, his head is described as looking large and square in the fog, but if the actor that they choose didn’t match that description, maybe they then couldn’t put that in the scene. In the three examples where they walk off the beach hand in hand, where the children were told that they were going to live with Mr. Poe and where their large fortune was mentioned. The three examples were all described in the scene in the book, but in the series, it was first mentioned later in the episode. Books and movies/series are built up differently. In books the scenes are often described in between dialog and the writer explaining everything. But in movies and series you often get left wanting more from scene to scene because it would be very difficult, confusing and unnecessary if you would stop every second to explain what was going on. You don’t need to do that in a series because its visual, so you get to see it instead of it being explained to you. The book and the series are mostly different because in the book you see both their thoughts, their feelings and their dialog. In the series you only get to see their expressions and their dialog, and that’s enough. It would be wired if you were watching a series and a voiceover kept saying “she´s sad now” or “he is confused”.

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The scene starts at the time point 3:28 and it ends at 9:10 and in the book the scene starts at page 2 and starts at the 19th line and ends at page 10 line 6.

This is so early in the book and the episode so you can probably guess that this is the beach scene, which probably many other students also, have used.

The scene in the movie starts by, the main characters being asked if they wanted to take to the festive

something (no matter how many times I listen to this scene I didn’t get the rest) and they say no because it’s the perfect day to go to the beach. There is no part of this conversation in the book.

In the movie they also have a scene where Violet asks her brother what the optimal angel is for throwing rocks is. This scene was also not in the book. Violet also took her ribbon on as also was in the book.

In the book violet is thinking of an invention that could pick up the rocks she threw, but in the movie, she has already made in the movie.

In the book Klause was examining small animals on the beach which did not happen in the movie.

In the movie Sunny was able to bite through stone so she was able to make a fine rock to be used to skipping the stone on water.

In the book Mr. Poes entrance is made a lot more dramatic like they can’t see who he is, and he doesn’t look completely human. But in the Netflix series he is more visible, and the scene doesn’t feel as dramatic.

The most of these changes have probably occurred because that they can’t show thoughts so in their place, they have made some changes.

The scene with the train man was placed so we could hear that they liked going to the beach on cloudy days.

The reason violets had made her machine is probably the reason I stated early, that they don’t show peoples thought so it’s easier to show she is good at machines by making her use the machine she imagined in the book in the story.

In they also changed the scenes of the brother so that he answered violets questions rather than examining small animals. They probably changed tis so they could show how smart he is rather making him look like a normal child that kills random small animals.

They changed also sunny from just being told she had sharp teeth too that of destroying rocks so we would know how sharp her teeth actually are.

The reason they changed the dramatic entrance of Mr. Poe is probably because they didn’t think they needed to spend money on that scenes entrance, or it didn’t know how too make it as it was written in the book, where the though was so thick that they only could sense his figure and couldn’t actually see the person.

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Lemony Snickett and a series of unfortunate events

I picked a scene of Justice Strauss visiting to check on the children. This scene is a bit hard to compare, because the nature of the scene has been completely rewritten in the series.
Netflix Series: 26:24
Book: page 33, line 19.

Comparisons between book and series, see attached foto.

This is honestly where we can’t compare anymore, from here everything splits into two different versions. But i can explain each.

Book:

After telling about her court case, and agreeing with Sunny that it is indeed interesting, Sunny bit her. Violet explains how it means Sunny likes her, and that she bites very, very hard if she dont.

Justice asks if there is anything the children desire. They think for a while and even tho they know what they desire, Klaus end up asking for a cooking book. Because they need to make food for Olaf’s theater troupe.

Justice asks if that much cooking isn't a lot to ask of children?

Where violet says that Olaf gives them a lot of responsibility. She really wanted to say Olaf is an even man. But she couldn't make herself do it.

They then go to Justice home to find a book.

Netflix Series:

After Justice asking if she could come in. Olaf reclines this request with the excuse that the children are having ‘’on of their moods’’. He continues to act like that bad.

Justice looks confused and say they look so sweet. Olaf continues to assure her that they are not.

Olaf explains how the children keep whining about everything and they are so spoiled. He explains how they are monsters after he opened his home to them.

All while they are scrubbing and cleaning the bathroom.

Olaf is about to close the door when Justice ask if he can just give them the lamb and ask i they wanna see her.

He agrees and take lamb. He then goes to check on the children, tell them they missed a spot. Eats the lamb and then goes to tell Justice that they didn't wanna see her.

Throughout this Olaf has of course been lying.

She gets disappointed and go home.

Olaf then goes back to the children who have finished up chores. Olaf tells them to cook for his theater troupe. They later on then go to Justice Strauss to find a cooking book.

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Comparison analysis

After their parents die in a house-fire, Klaus, violet and sunny Baudelaire become ophans, and get sent to live with their mysterious distant relative Count Olaf. The unpleasant misadventures and unfortunate events begin. Olaf was a man that wanted to obtain the enormous fortune of their parents.

The siblings traveled from place to place to find a guardian and to get independence from a Olaf. With each encounter becoming more and more unfortunate.

The plot of the novel and the tv-show are similar, but there are differences. In the Netflix adaptational series, klaus, vioalet and sunny are the main focus of the book, but the story is not only told from their points of view. Mr. Poe, the banker and friend who tell the siblings about the fire, is put in charge of finding them new guardians. In the book, we keep quessing things as to is the story is true, if Klaus caused the fire. Lemony snickers character is more involved in the Netflix series.

The reason as to why the book and series are so different, is because, the book can go into depth, and describe things in detail, while the series only has to show what happens visually. The monologue of the characters is not revealed entirely. Although the narrator is unreliable in both, he can fool the reader more in the book. He can twist and turn the events more.

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A series of unfortunate events the analysis

We have the starting scene where the book starts of with describing that you should take another book because this one is just bad where as the series says in the song that “you should look away” and the “narrator” I our case a guy telling us what kind of children we are dealing with tell us that this is a terrible story and that its just better to find a new one but as we stick with them we find out in the book that they immediately  describe the children where as in the series they go through some wording they use and their meaning then the series describe the children and in the book they tell us that their unfortunate events start at the beach where as in the series its basically from the start that they had trouble and a good difference is how they set up the children in the book they tell us how smart the children are before using words and what they mean where as in the series its opposite and tell us the words then how smart they are in the series they go straight inventing where as in the book they set up as they wanted to try it but some skipping with stones first and we get a description in the book we do not get in the series until we are transported around where we get told that she is thinking about different things but the way they go about their connecting with people is they both go overboard with how to describe their situation and that we also have a narrator that does not want us to be here and that we should just find something better and go out of our way to not look at it and the narrator is not really trustworthy as we see him as a character in the series and we should not look at the book in the books case and try to deceive us by telling that its just downhill from here but as we know from other books its keep attention for the reader to keep reading and we know it should get better at some point like any other story it will in the end and In most cases it would end good but as we get into the story as far as we have now it seems to just get worse day after day and that the main villain can get way worse about his cruelty and the way he does it keeps getting worse for time to time and we know that he has a deeper evil inside of and that is only out for greed since he directly told us and the house he “lives in” is to the point where its not even livable in since there are rats everywhere and they bite as we are told but it gives a sense of this is bad get out but as we are reminded they can’t because they live with a guardian and they don’t have another choice and they cant really do much about it and we can see that this is very much a fictional as none of this could have happened since we have regulations on how the person should live and yes many stories aren’t based in reality but we know this is blown a bit up as this could never have happened which makes us feel a bit distanced with the world as a whole but the children we can feel as they want to invent and use their creativity like all people in the real world which makes us feel like we want to save them even more and help them get out of that terrible house so they can be set free and experiment to their hearts content but as we are cruelly reminded they are stuck in that house and cant really get out of there and have to stay for as long as needed and the story keeps going and we can do nothing but hope for the best and just follow along as the narrator tells the story and we sit and wait for the next bad event to occur and hope that it does not get much worse for the children and hope none of it have a to damaging impact on their lives living with that relative of theirs and we just keep praying that the story gets better sooner rather than latter as we follow the series and the chapters in the book with the story and we will just need to wait until we get a chance to see a glimmer of hope in the near future and that it will get better soon and that the future is better than the current moment.

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A Series of unfortunate events scene comparison

I will be comparing the scene where the children and Mr. Poe arrive at Count Olaf’s mansion (in the series at minute 18:26 to around minute 24 in the book starting from page 22 to 25).

The Scene in the book starts off with Klaus knocking on the door and Count Olaf shows up almost immediately, whereas in the series, its Poe who rings the doorbell and Olaf doesn’t even seem to realize at first, and Poe rings the bell a second time before he comes down to greet the children. Then when Olaf comes down, he starts practicing saying hello to the children (audibly to both the children and Poe on the other side of the door) before opening the door. I think they decided to do this in the series to have some form of comedic element, for a younger audience, where the book generally feels a lot darker throughout. After Olaf opens the door to Poe and the children, in the book he simply says Hello and then asks them to come in, but in the series he says hello, introduces himself as Count Olaf renowned actor and their new guardian, and says your welcome to the children and “don’t forget your enormous fortune”. This is most likely done to swiftly introduce him as a weird villain character, since you don’t have much time on television to do this, where in a book you can work with it a bit longer. In the series Poe then introduces himself as the guy Olaf talked with from the bank since Olaf is confused as to what he is doing there, and says that the room might need a bit of work and Olaf then says that with the money the children has, they could help out a little where Poe then says the Money is not available before Violet comes of age, and Olaf then has to ask who violet is of the three, where in the book Poe only says “this room looks like it needs a bit of work” and doesn’t need to introduce himself, and Olaf just says that the money probably could help and so on. In the series it makes, Olaf looks like he cares even less for the children and only wants the money, then in the book since he forgets who she is. The rest of the scene then is very different between the book and the series. In the book they quickly move along, Poe says goodbye, and that he will check in on them still occasionally, and they say goodbye to each other. The children then notice a tattoo on count Olaf’s ankle they also noticed on the front door and they now wonder how many more is around the house, whereas in the series the tattoo is noticed immediately when he opens the door but doesn’t get more attention than that for now. The eye now seems to very important in the books, but in the series, it seems like a detail in there which is important, we just don’t know why. The scene then ends there in the book. In the series however it continues for a bit longer, to show the children a list of chores they must do in the house, Olaf then gives them a tour of the house, and talk about the chores while doing so. They end up in their room with one small bed and some rocks. I think the reason they chose to have a tour in the series, is so that the audience can get a better feel of who Olaf is as a character early on, and see what the living conditions are for the children, again because of time limitations.

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In the start of both the TV-series and the book, the children go to a beach.
In the book they describe that the beach is grey and cloudy, and that the children like it because when it isn’t grey and cloudy,
the tourist comes to the beach, and they find anywhere to be on the beach.
We also get to know why the children comes to the beach alone, in the book they explain that the children get to go because their parents allows them, and as long, as they come back before dinner, then no harm happened.
But, when you see the TV-series an old woman says to them that it’s a terrible weather to be on the beach, and they respond that, that’s why they are here.
Compared to each other, you don’t really learn very much about why they are on the beach, and why alone, where is their parents and etc. you would just think, when you see the TV-series, that these children might be a little weird or something like that.
You don’t really get any insider explanation in the series to why, and it just leaves you with questions, which is good if they have plans on answering them in the series, but if they don’t have the plans for it, then it’s just a shame for us watching the TV-series.
But sometimes you don’t really have to know why, and I think in this situation it might have been the right thing, not to include it.
Because if the people who watch the series, gets a lot of details in the series, then they will eventually get bored and lose the interest to the series.

In the book it tells us about Violet switching between left and right hand, when she skips the rocks into the water, but in the TV-series, when Violet is about to throw skip the stone, her brother Klaus stops and tells her that she should use her dominant hand and explains why she should.
She then decides to listen and doesn’t switch between hands, she also only skips the rocks once and then they continue with the story. If they had done it in the book it would have been a problem, since as a reader you would feel that the story went too fast.
If they choose to write it in that pace, and then readers wouldn’t enjoy the book as much.
In the book you get a lot more details than the TV-series, and it’s fine because both ways works. Because in a TV-series the people who are watching the series, doesn’t want to wait a long time to see what happens next, they don’t want the extra details.
While in the book people would love the extra details, as it can be used again later, and you would still remember it.
Since the book can make you remember such details, while in a TV-series it can do that but it would get too much if it kept doing so.