s were taken out along with some of the obscure details that figure in the book. In the flashback scene in which Hester as a child witnesses the leaving of her governess in rather extreme circumstances (a miscarriage is hinted at) we see how that event affects Hester’s personality. If the scene were included, you would have to feel that it might contribute to alienating the members of the audience that hadn’t read the book. Also the director and screenwriter have to evaluate the effectiveness of a scene and weigh up whether they can put the idea into the film without using another scene to put the idea across. A lingering shot of a Hester crying over a picture of Hester and Hilde may be enough to put forward the same thoughts as the flashback scene of the book.Differences between the film and the book can also be explained in that it is an interpretation of a text ie what seemed to be important for one person might not have been for another and vice versa. The interpretation that is the movie was I feel a much-simplified view of the text. There are two reasons for this simplification one is that I think they were trying to make an art-house film slightly mainstream and the second is they had time constraints in the length of the movie. In order to solve these problems they stripped back many of the layers to the storyline. One of the downsides of using the film medium is the fact that it is very capital intensive; it costs lots of money to make a film and needs to make lots of money to be successful. As the films are to be made to garner as many people to see them as possible the story, which may have been deep and complex has to be changed so it can be interpreted by the most people possible.The film however does attempt to remedy the shortcomings of the medium by the use of sound and visual effects. The use of a blue filter was a clever idea especially how the blue hue gradually got darker as the film went on and gave a th...
