Database – sample

The similarities between the novel and the movie are reduced to a few names (Bembo/Tembo, Long Ghost/Dr. Long, Capt. Guy, Chips, the Julia) and to the power dynamic on board the ship, where the abusive Richards remains in charge because captain Guy is sick and cannot leave his quarters (see also Inge 1986, 702). But as creative as Green and Leonard were in adapting the story to a simple exploration plot, in order to make the movie exciting, they resort to archival footage of exotic animal and landscape imagery. Some examples include the scene when Dr. Long shows Julie the confrontation between an octopus and an eel; and in different scenes Tembo guides the crew through the jungle of Taviti and their excursion is interrupted by exclamations from several characters.  “Look!” says Garland, and a jump cut recreates his perspective of a python snake on a tree, or orangutan or monkeys or the fight between two tigers (see also Inge 1986, 701–2).