- Title
- Closing Episodes in Three Film Versions of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea
- Author/Creator
- Jordan Bailey
- Publication Details
- Critical Insights: The Old Man and the Sea, pp.219-243
- Annotation
- Comparison study of the endings of three major screen adaptations, the 1958 Hollywood film starring Spencer Tracy, 1990 television movie starring Anthony Quinn, and 1999 animated short by Russian filmmaker Aleksandr Petrov. Bailey's close reading focuses on the faithfulness of each version to the original, contending that of the three, the 1958 film aligns most closely with the novella's final scenes in its depiction of an exhausted Santiago and attentive Manolin, while the 1990 version, with its optimistic tone, "feels less like The Old Man and the Sea and more like How Santiago Got His Groove Back." Characterizes the animated version as a superficial rendering of Santiago's experiences into a "short little adventure story ...too light to convey the depths suggested by the book."
- Publisher
- Salem Press; Ipswich, MA
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Record Identifier
- 991015212698103691
Book chapter
Closing Episodes in Three Film Versions of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea
Critical Insights: The Old Man and the Sea, pp.219-243
Salem Press
2022
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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