Literally just read this story today for a college assignment on short stories and loved it. Had no idea it was a movie (or that it was released by Criterion! Sweet!). I also thought when i read the story that it would make a really cool movie nowadays, throw a lot of symbolism and brutality in it, and have hmm... maybe David Fincher, Darren Aronofsky, or hell, even Tarantino direct it!
How similar is the film to the story?
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I'm glad you just read it and posted this iscream22. I was a little suprised it was in college (I assume from this date was in summer school, and was for an English class). I read the short story (by Richard Connell) when I was in 9th grade for my English I class, in fall, 1982 (we did so together as a class), and I do remember it well and really liked it. I didn't know until later in the 1980s that it had been made into a movie, but every since then wanted to see it but never got the chance (it wasn't on VHS and never came on TV). I then found out this April it has been out on DVD since 1999, and I definitely plan to watch it there when get acess to DVD (hopefully this summer). I agree fully with you on its being remade today (see my other posting on here), but since I've never actually seen this movie I can't say how similair it is for sure, but I think, from my strong memories of the short story, that it would be nearly identical all the way through. I look foward to seeing the movie on DVD and finding out, but I think it is, and also hope to see a modern remake in theatres soon.
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I agree a remake would be awesome, Matthew McConnahgy (sorry I cant spell it) and Reese Witherspoon would be pretty cool to see. I think you would need to change it up a bit though.
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I also just read it with my 9th grade class, and it was damn good. We're hoping we can see the movie in class, too.
shareHa, same here. I'm actually finishing up a project for The Most Dangerous Game, while typing this. I was looking up when the story was first published and saw that it had been made into a movie.
It's actually not completely the same, for one, unless my book has it different there isn't a girl and her brother in the story o_o.
also small thing, but still, Zaroff is a general, not a count. Heh, just noticed they said count.
Also in the short story, the huntee must stay out until midnight of the third day. I haven't seen the movie, mind you, but I have read the short story (book is in lap), and I read the plot outlines and such for the movie.
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I just assigned my 9th grade students to read this story and explore it in Literature Circles. For those students that have seen the movie, do you recommend the showing of it? Thanks for the input.
shareYeah same with me. But, my teacher said that the movie for it sucks and instead we're going to watch a movie with a similar plot.
shareI'm in english 1 honors too in 9th grade
and were in the middle of reading it noww.
seems really good
Thats reeeeealllly freaky. I read that story just yesterday in my 9th grade Comm.Arts class. I was searching for the story online (since i dont have the book with me) and I found this site...I didn't know it was made into a movie..I might try to buy a copy online....
shareomg i read this story in 8th grade and loved it!!! we watched the movie soon after and my friends and i thought it was the funniest thing ever (still is)ughhh how i love the movies where the actors cant act!!
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i read this in my english class and i'm in 8th grade
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whoa...hahaha everybody read this in their 9th grade honors english...we just read it in my 9th grade GATE english class yesterday lol - i just thought my teacher was crazy lol, but i guess she knows what she's doing
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yeah there is 2 english classes in my school in 8th grade GOAL (hardest) and english i'm NOT in goal and we read last week and this week we read that really preverted story The Landlady by ROALD DAHL. that was kind of gross. but i'm surpised that u guys r in high school and r just reading the most dangerous game
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I'm in 9th grade and today we finished reading the story...it has been one of my favorites stories I have read at school; didin't liked the ending though. It was kind of obvious. I haven't seen the movie but I would love to see it. I already saw Bloodlust,(actually I have it) which is another remake of The Most Dangerous Game, and it wasen't very good. So, how different is this movie from the story? Bloodlust isin' that different. The only two things that are different are the ending and that two cuples that arrive in the island...the rest is pretty similar...
shareI read a shortened versionof "The Most Dangerous Game", i loved it!
I've got to check out this movie sometime, has anyone seen it?
Really I thought there was only a short version of "The Most Dangerous Game" I read it in English class recently and it was the short story version.
shareI thought it was only a short story, too, but I'm not sure. I juts read it this year. Being an actor, screenwriter, and movie-lover myself, I instantly thought it had potential to be a great film, but would be difficult because of how short the story was and the small amount of characters. I see that for this version of the film, they just added in tons of characters, which, I'm sure, made it easier to write. Tarantino, actually could make a pretty good director for it, probably. I was trying to think of stars who could be in it.... maybe Liam Neeson or Ralph Fiennes (wrong spelling) as the General Zaroff character??? I really don't know, casting is one thing I have always been bad at envisioning. What does everyone else think???
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I read this in school aswell...excellent story indeed.
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I read this about a month ago for 9th grade LA and it was a very good piece of liturature! The only bad part was my teacher has us write what would happen after Rainsford waked up after sleeping in Zaroff's bed in the end.
I say keep Matt McConahay (worng spelling) and Reese Witherspoon, but why not Ian McKellen as Zaroff?
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Ian McKellen would be a ganrly Zaroff.
I read this last year in grade 8..I want to see the movie now!!!
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I see Werner Herzog directing AND starring as Zaroff.
shareI read it in 8th grade. Zaroff is a general, and the victim guy was by himself. They were like the only characters in the story.
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Guess I am an old hand at this. Back in the mid to late 50's, in Jesuit schools in the Mid West (I grew up in Kansas City, MO), there was a Freshman Reader ("Prose and Poetry for Enjoyment") that the frosh were told to buy. The short story by Connell was the first story we kids all had to read under the guidance of a Jebbie teacher.
Good Godfrey, the story blew my mind. I recall reading the redacted "Hurricane" and "The Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" later on, and a couple of others like "The Gift of the Magi." But the first story by Connell lived in my memory for years. Even now, nearly 50 years later, the story is as thrilling as any Sherlock Holmes story I read before I entered High School.
I don't know what the high school readers are publishing these days. But I think there is a body of short stories that kids even in our day should be exposed to. Like, the story under discussion and those mentioned above, as well as the moving "Silent Snow, Secret Snow" and a tale or two by Poe. Can kids today be all that different from kids in the fifties?
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woah does like everybody read this story in 9th grade english?!?!? seriously! i just finished this story as well in honors english....
shareEverything you say is true, but this story was also a big influence on Lost. Think about it.
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we read this in our 9th grade class and have to write a prt 2 about it =(
haha mysn soo lame!
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was Harry Von Zell in it yet?
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It's not the same as the book. I read it, and I'm watching the movie in school. We saw a HILARIOUS movie trailer with Vincent Price! LOL!
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They assigned this with a large number of other short stories to read at university of MD. Feel funny though that all of you read it in 9th grade :). It was an easy read though. Im ordering the movie from Ebay right now, it better be good!
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i just read this in school i have ap english i thought it was a short story we used it to analyze literary techiques or something
shareI'm amazed that most if not all people here only got to read this in the higher grade levels. If I'm not mistaken, I read this whilst I was in fourth grade, or possibly 5th grade.
shareI have taught this story for many years in my high school English classes and rememebered reading it in school when I was a teenager, but I had never seen the movie until today. It is very well done but somewhat different from Connel's famous story.
What I appreciated most about the movie was that it was made by the same group of film makers who created the amazing "King Kong" and it has teh same kind of spirit.
The addition of characters not featured in the story do not ruin the story, and, in fact, I like them.
The themes are all intact and the atmosphere is wonderful. I will show this to my students (even though they will groan when they see that it is in black and white).
I'm also in Honors English 1, and we just finished reading it too...
So far we've read...
-Contents of a Dead Mans Pocket
-The Most Dangerous Game
-The Cask of Amontillado
-Blues Aint No Mockin Bird
-The Scarlett Ibis
-The Necklace
-Snow
And one other that I cant seem to remember...
Well I thought that it was a wonderful story, I also feel that they should re-make it, but not with too many Hollywood names, seriously I feel that Fincher or even Lynch could do this story to justice...
I felt that Zaroff was similar to a character in a novel I once read (also seen the movie) his name was Patrick Bateman and the novel was "American Psycho"...I'm not quite sure if anyone else feels the way I do, I would like to hear if anyone does? Thanks...
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I read it recently in English class, also. We were having a discussion about the movie and I noticed that the movie "The Condemned" seemed very similar.
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