Just Read This in School
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bohemianbutterfly92 — 19 years ago(August 30, 2006 07:08 PM)
Ha, same here. I'm actually finishing up a project for The Most Dangerous Game, while typing this. I was looking up when the story was first published and saw that it had been made into a movie.
It's actually not completely the same, for one, unless my book has it different there isn't a girl and her brother in the story o_o.
also small thing, but still, Zaroff is a general, not a count. Heh, just noticed they said count.
Also in the short story, the huntee must stay out until midnight of the third day. I haven't seen the movie, mind you, but I have read the short story (book is in lap), and I read the plot outlines and such for the movie.
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bored_to_tears_14 — 19 years ago(August 31, 2006 04:22 PM)
Thats reeeeealllly freaky. I read that story just yesterday in my 9th grade Comm.Arts class. I was searching for the story online (since i dont have the book with me) and I found this siteI didn't know it was made into a movie..I might try to buy a copy online.
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o_cella_x — 19 years ago(September 06, 2006 04:07 PM)
omg i read this story in 8th grade and loved it!!! we watched the movie soon after and my friends and i thought it was the funniest thing ever (still is)ughhh how i love the movies where the actors cant act!!
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TOMMYismyhomeboy — 19 years ago(September 12, 2006 04:27 PM)
whoahahaha everybody read this in their 9th grade honors englishwe just read it in my 9th grade GATE english class yesterday lol - i just thought my teacher was crazy lol, but i guess she knows what she's doing
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ymmas10011 — 19 years ago(September 13, 2006 07:25 PM)
yeah there is 2 english classes in my school in 8th grade GOAL (hardest) and english i'm NOT in goal and we read last week and this week we read that really preverted story The Landlady by ROALD DAHL. that was kind of gross. but i'm surpised that u guys r in high school and r just reading the most dangerous game
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bato0292 — 19 years ago(September 15, 2006 02:24 PM)
I'm in 9th grade and today we finished reading the storyit has been one of my favorites stories I have read at school; didin't liked the ending though. It was kind of obvious. I haven't seen the movie but I would love to see it. I already saw Bloodlust,(actually I have it) which is another remake of The Most Dangerous Game, and it wasen't very good. So, how different is this movie from the story? Bloodlust isin' that different. The only two things that are different are the ending and that two cuples that arrive in the islandthe rest is pretty similar
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jaddison383 — 19 years ago(October 07, 2006 12:58 PM)
I thought it was only a short story, too, but I'm not sure. I juts read it this year. Being an actor, screenwriter, and movie-lover myself, I instantly thought it had potential to be a great film, but would be difficult because of how short the story was and the small amount of characters. I see that for this version of the film, they just added in tons of characters, which, I'm sure, made it easier to write. Tarantino, actually could make a pretty good director for it, probably. I was trying to think of stars who could be in it. maybe Liam Neeson or Ralph Fiennes (wrong spelling) as the General Zaroff character??? I really don't know, casting is one thing I have always been bad at envisioning. What does everyone else think???
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Nepfew33 — 19 years ago(November 16, 2006 03:59 PM)
I read this in school aswellexcellent story indeed.
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iggy92 — 19 years ago(November 20, 2006 08:37 PM)
I read this about a month ago for 9th grade LA and it was a very good piece of liturature! The only bad part was my teacher has us write what would happen after Rainsford waked up after sleeping in Zaroff's bed in the end.
I say keep Matt McConahay (worng spelling) and Reese Witherspoon, but why not Ian McKellen as Zaroff?
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karatewolfpunk — 19 years ago(January 10, 2007 03:54 PM)
I read it in 8th grade. Zaroff is a general, and the victim guy was by himself. They were like the only characters in the story.
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39-0-13 — 18 years ago(June 30, 2007 02:07 PM)
Guess I am an old hand at this. Back in the mid to late 50's, in Jesuit schools in the Mid West (I grew up in Kansas City, MO), there was a Freshman Reader ("Prose and Poetry for Enjoyment") that the frosh were told to buy. The short story by Connell was the first story we kids all had to read under the guidance of a Jebbie teacher.
Good Godfrey, the story blew my mind. I recall reading the redacted "Hurricane" and "The Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" later on, and a couple of others like "The Gift of the Magi." But the first story by Connell lived in my memory for years. Even now, nearly 50 years later, the story is as thrilling as any Sherlock Holmes story I read before I entered High School.
I don't know what the high school readers are publishing these days. But I think there is a body of short stories that kids even in our day should be exposed to. Like, the story under discussion and those mentioned above, as well as the moving "Silent Snow, Secret Snow" and a tale or two by Poe. Can kids today be all that different from kids in the fifties?