American Gothic

In this century, the progress of the camera has definitely changed our perception of the American Gothic’s horror facet. In fact, the directors and producers could optimize the lights and sounds of their movies with more ease so they could reflect the author’s main thoughts and ideas. However, it is much harder to interpret words into a movie, and the length of a movie can sadly affect the books little details, which makes it so appealing. Even though, they resulted in realistic horror movies, those movies gave the stories a more physical setting that helped readers give birth to the image they created in their minds by reading books. Around the 60s, The Turn of the Screw by Henry James has been based on many movies and this essay will particularly compare the original novel to Jack Clayton classic movie �’The Innocents’’.

The Turn of the Screw has many reveals us many important details that the movie omits to show us. For example, in the final chapter of the book, there are several hidden and typically vague hints that the governess is probably strangling Miles: “my hands-but it was for pure tenderness-shook him as if to ask him why” (Henry James p.83) -. Even more proof, :” He looked in vague pain all round the top of the room and drew his breath, two or three times over, as if with difficulty” and “I let him go a little” and“ then gave a frantic little shake for air and light”(83). These parts of the text suggest very strongly, in the book, that the governess is abusing Miles but try to control herself; the movie absolutely leaves out this facet. Jack Clayton portrays the governess as completely insane and Miles as the evil itself. On the other hand, Miles control the conversation in a very comfortably way in “The