Friday, May 29, 2015
Persepolis film response
In comparison to the book, The Complete Persepolis film cuts out a huge chunk of Marjane's life. The graphic novel provides the reader with a lot of background information and detail about what lead up to each event. In the film, Marjane briefly touches upon an event and then moves onto the next. An example might be when Marjane moves to Vienna. In the novel, Satrapi describes her hardships in her mother's friend's house and how she moved from house to house until her mother visits her in Vienna and helps her find Frau Doctor Heller's house. In the film, Marjane's mother's visit isn't even mentioned. For the sake of telling Marjane's story, the graphic novel version is far more effective due to the amount of background information given for each scene of her life.
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Your response is exactly how I felt about the movie, that there were scenes left out that could have been more impactful, or that changed what really happened in the book. The graphic novel, as you said was better at telling the story because of the extra information that was provided. Scenes probably would have made more of an impact if that info was added or if we were given the actual scene from the book.
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