Snow Falling On Cedars Essay

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After reading the novel Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson, in my opinion, the movie is an accurate representation of the novel. However, there are some flaws and inconsistencies between the two. Firstly, the movie follows the plot line of the book for the most part. The timing of when Ishmael finds the evidence of the Corona in the lighthouse is very late in the novel. In the movie, this takes place very early which changes the attitude of the scene. It changes it because in the movie, the viewers know Ishmael has that evidence for the majority of the movie. The readers of the novel only find out at the very last few chapters. Other than that scene, the movie is in correct order. The characters in the novel are represented well for the …show more content…
Ishmael is very timid and needy, just as in the novel. The young version of Ishmael does a good job of showing his emotions when needed. One example of this is when he is saying goodbye for the last time to Hatsue. Kabuo Miyamoto is just as aggressive and content in the movie as described in the novel. His actor, Rick Yune, appears as the spitting image of a 1940’s Japanese-American. To me, Horace Whaley, was not portrayed very well. It seems as if the director takes Horace’s jealous attitude and plays up on it to an extreme. In the movie, Horace is much more vocal and many things he thought to himself, are said in the movie. One difference is, in the book, Horace Whaley thinks to himself about “looking for a Jap with a bloody gun butt”. In the movie, Horace yells this out in the courtroom. This gives him a different persona than in the book because it makes him seem more obnoxious and over talkative. Lastly, the novel consists of many flashbacks and scene changes. The movie tries to do the same but the result was poor. The movie changes way too fast and without previous knowledge, it is just confusion. The flashbacks are sometimes unclear and
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