Summary: Pride and Prejudice

The last day we watched in class the film “Pride and prejudice”. The story is very similar than the book that we had read: The main character, Elizabeth Bennet, a prejudiced girl from a medium social class, meets a rich gentleman, Mr. Darcy, who teaches her that to judge people at first sight and without care can drive us until a great mistake. That happens with Elizabeth and Darcy but, at the end, they finish together, married and happy.

Apart from that, there are more love stories in the background, very varied and which involve the Bennet sisters and their family.

As I’ve said, the film is similar to the book, but there are some differences. In Pemberley, when Elizabeth visits the house with her uncles, the servant tells them how good person is Mr. Darcy, but in the film she doesn’t speak. When Lydia elopes with Mr. Wickham, Elizabeth doesn’t tell the news to their uncles and Mr. Darcy at the same time. Finally, if I’m not mistaken, when Lady Catherine de Bourgh visits Elizabeth, they don’t meet in a room and at night but they go for a walk near Bennet’s House. Furthermore, Elizabeth and Mr Darcy meet some times in Lady Catherine’s gardens before he proposes her.

There are also differences between the films (the British version and the American version). On the one hand, the British film finishes when Elizabeth tells her father that she really wants to marry Mr. Darcy and he is astonished because two of her daughters have promised in a very short period of time. On the other hand, the American version continues this scene and finishes in Mr. Darcy’s house, in Pemberley, near the lake, at night. In this scene there’s the final kiss, giving a more typical ending. In my opinion, the first one is better than the second, which is very cheesy.

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Summary: The Ghost Rider

A motorcycle rider (Johnny Blaze) knows that his father is dying of cancer and he gives his soul to an unknown man who says that he can cure his father. Johnny didn’t believe in those things but, miraculously his father gets over the cancer (but he dies the same day in an accident). Johnny’s soul belongs to that man (Mephistopheles).
After that, Johnny becomes the Ghost Rider at nights. He punishes the villains and he needs to beat Blackheart (Mephistopheles’ son).
Roxanne had been his girlfriend but he abandoned her after lose his soul. Now, they meet again, and she discovers what happens to Johnny.
At the end, Blackheart kidnaps Roxanne and the Ghost Rider travels to San Venganza. Once there, he saves Roxanne and kills Blackheart, but when Mephistopheles comes to give him his soul, he doesn’t accept it. He will continue being the Ghost Rider.

Stunt rider: pilot d’acrobàcies.
Bonehead: estúpid
Greed: avarícia
Carny: carnaval
Sin (to): pecar

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Frankenstein: summary and differences between the film and the book

The story of Victor Frankenstein is a fiction story. It was written by Mary Shelley. It tells the tragedies of a man who disobeyed the nature trying to avoid the death and creating life. But he forgot something in his experiment: the importance love and care. His egoism and ambition lead him to the suffering and the solitude.

The story ends with tragedy, death and sadness, but there’s hope too, because it gives a warning. This story teaches what we can’t ever do, what needs to be changed to avert doing mistakes in the future. We need to know that life is something very serious. This message is received by the captain of a boat and his crew, who will bring this knowledge to the rest of the world.

There are some differences between the book we have read (an adaptation of the original) and the film directed by Kenneth Branagh (1994):

First of all, Victor had more brothers in the book than in the film, and his mother died because of a disease, not because of some problems in the birth of Victor’s brother. In the book, Victor meets Henry Clerval when they are child, not in the university (film). Moreover, Henry doesn’t know his intentions, but in the film he is always with Victor and he advises him to stop the experiments.
In the book, the monster strangles Elizabeth, but in the film he pulls out her heart. Also, in the book, Victor doesn’t do anything with Elizabeth’s inert body, while in the film he revives her.

In spite of these differences, the story is very original and it makes some conflictive questions about the progress of the science. I am a bit surprised because this problem was questioned in 1818 and it’s still a relevant topic. I think the book is better than the film because when I read the book I imagined some things different than what I’ve watched in the film.

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Summary: Sleepy Hollow

The doctor Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp) goes to Sleepy Hollow from New York City to investigate some murders that have happened in the village. There is something mysterious: a headless horseman appears at night and decapitates people with his sword. But the strangest thing is that the horseman takes away the heads and nobody founds them.

People can’t hide through the forest because they are frightened of him.

Ichabod investigates with Young Masbath, the son of one of the victims, and Katrina Van Tassel, the mayor’s daughter. They discover the tomb of the rider, but his skull isn’t there.

When they reveal some dark stories about the village, they find the cause of these happenings: A woman has stolen the skull and manipulates the rider killing the people of the village.

At the end, the headless horseman recovers what’s his. Then, he finishes with the woman and rests in peace.

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