Journal Entry #6

1. The movie starts off with her cutting vegetables and the director increases the volume of the cutting so that the veiwer is able to see the duty she is being put o.
2. The mother seems a lot older than in the book.
3. The fathers eyes were not sewn shut.
4. The director fails to show the Vermeers visiting the ous of Greit.
5. The director uses an establishing shot to emphasize the towns size.
6. The house was not what I pictured it to be because it seems they are poorer than i expected.
7. I expected Tanneke to be much skinnier than she is.
8. There were no mentionings of pets in the book.
9. The director did not establish the hardships and opening s of Griets first day.
10. Catharnia is alot more beautiful in the movie than in the book.
11. I pictured the studio to be alot more luxorious but it helped established the family's wealth as being middle class.
12. Griet does not speak as much in the movie as she does in the book.
13. Maria Thins is a lot more ruder in the movie and does not seem to establish her liking for Griet as she does in the book.
14. There is no confliction between Tanneke and Griet as in the book.
15. The reasoning for Catharnia not being able to set forth in the studio is different compared to the movie. Catharnia had not been able to set forth in the movie because she had tried to destroy a past painting but in the book they do not establish this.
16. The movie adds a scne in which Griet goes to the housing of van Ruijven.
17. The children do not play as big a role in the movie as they do in the book.
18. Anges and Frans are not mentioned in the movie at all.
19. A dolly shot is used when Pieter and Griet are wlking together in a park setting.
20. At the part in which Griet as to go to the apocerathy in order to obtain medicine for the baby, the master hands her the list of items needed rather sending i done in a leather pouch.
21. The ending is different because they do not shiw her when she is older and Tanneke gives her the pearls immediately after she leaves. She also keeps the earring rather than selling them and she does not get married to Pieter.