Richard Connell's The Most Dangerous Game

Sometimes, short stories and books are made into films. Richard Connell’s work “The Most Dangerous Game” is one of those short stories. From text to film, some things are dropped and others are added, but usually the main plot stays the same. For stories and books to be made into films is an honor to the author who wrote them nonetheless. Some differences are minor, but others are major.
In the exposition Richard Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game,” we meet Sanger Rainsford and his hunting partner Whitney. They’re on a yacht in the Caribbean on their way to South America. When they reach Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, they’re going to hunt jaguars in the Amazon rain forest. However, the 1932 film adaptation based on the short story …show more content…
He invites Rainsford in to have dinner and dry off after his tiring experience. Over dinner, the two talk of hunting, which leads to Zaroff informing his ‘guest’ that he has invented a new animal to pursue. People. General Zaroff also explains that he wants Rainsford to go hunting with him. Rainsford, claiming that he would never murder anybody, declines. Zaroff then decides to hunt Rainsford, gives him hunting clothes and a knife, and three days to survive the hunt. However, in the film adaptation, there are two other ‘guests’ in the house, a brother and sister, also victims of shipwrecks. Within the space of a couple hours, the ‘guests’ learn of Zaroff’s game. Upon Rainsford discovering Zaroff wishes to hunt him, he makes a deal: if he wins, he and Eve-the girl- will go free. Zaroff agrees, gives Rainsford a knife and until sunrise to survive. The hunt in both versions has three ‘waves,’ I guess we’d call them, and they’re pretty similar. During the first one, Zaroff is just messing with Rainsford’s head; the second one Zaroff brings Ivan with him; and during the third one, he brings his hunting dogs. That’s the basic run-down of the hunt. There were some minor variations from text to film, such as the traps Rainsford sets being in different orders and Rainsford’s first hiding place being different; nothing major other than Eve’s part in the film. The climax is different from text to film as

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