Day of the Locust
Day of the Locust
The Book and film The Day of the Locust are both similar yet create different pictures. Even though the film is almost word for word with the book the slight differences between them show us different parts of Nathanael West vision of Hollywood. The book shows Hollywood as the place that corrupts the dreams of the ignorant, foolish, and naïve. The film shows Hollywood to be a corrupts world of …
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…what Nathaneal West desired to show us. The film showed us a Hollywood indifferent to what happened to the people that came to become a star and the madness and hate that this created. The paints a portrait of Hatred from people that had spent there lives saving to come to this ripe land of oranges and dreams only to find the oranges sour and there dreams used up and thrown in a empty lot.
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