Film or Novel??

The film and novel of Persepolis vary greatly. The film begins in color, for starters. Also, Satrapi discusses more of her relationship with her grand mother , than with various characters. She focuses on herself and her grandmother mostly to lessen the confusion of the story. When you’re reading, a “chapter” may takes five minutes whereas on film, it may take approximately one moment. I enjoyed how the story flowed… and it though it did much better in comic strip on paper rather than on camera. The beginning seemed to drag a little, but I think that was because I knew what was coming all of the time, since we read first, watched second.

A difference I noticed was when she was talking about the boyfriend that cheated on her. They showed him being wonderful first and the two of them falling in love and later showed how he asked for gas money and was ugly and disgusting. Another difference was the lack of drug use shown in the film. The novel touched on this so much that it was difficult to forget that large parts of the novel she was high! The film showed her smoking cigarettes often, but nothing any worse.I think the directors chose to enumerate this from the film so the viewers didn't get distracted from the point of the film. The film takes such little time to get the point across, so pointless aspects can stick out more than the main idea, detracting from idea the director wants to convey.