Persepolis the movie

I have to admit that I didn't think that I would enjoy reading this book. Reading a comic novel seemed unusual and I do not tend to enjoy books about people telling about their native country. Regardless, my expectations were wrong. This novel was pretty interesting. Satrapi did a great job transferring her emotions to the reader. The illustrations obviously aided in this and so did her own humor. The movie made my decision even more clear that I really enjoyed this novel. The voices and facial expressions of every character helped and succeeded in the transfer of the emotions that Satrapi felt. Of course, many times movies write the movie a little differently than the novel. Therefore, some of the scenes from the novel were left out in the movie. However, some were added. The beginning and some other parts were added. Sometimes when movies do this it ruins the novel because it is so much different. However, for this movie the slight differences added to the overall awesome experience. I liked the fact that the movie looked exactly like the book. It helped add to the experience of reading the novel and helped to understand the pictures better. The only thing that I didn't like was that Satrapi did not narrate the movie as much as I expected. Other than that, there was a lot of humor throughout the movie and I laughed more than I did during the novel; the movement and the facial expressions must have aided to make this happen. The best part was, of course, Satrapi singing "Eye of the Tiger."

-Bethany Davis (Post #11)