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The Giver – (The 1993 Book) VERSUS The Giver (The 2014 Movie)

April 11, 20192GTAllYouCanEat, Versus Machine - A Comparison of Great Things"Sameness", 10 million copies, 12-year-old boy, 1993, 1994, American, American Library Association, Australia, Brenton Thwaites, Canada, climate, color, dystopian, emotional depth, evil, film adaptation, Gathering Blue, inherently good, Jeff Bridges, Jonas, Lois Lowry, loose quartet, memory, Meryl Streep, Messenger (2004), middle school reading lists, Newbery Medal, novel, or in between, order, Receiver of Memory, Son, structure, terrain, The Giver, The Giver Quartet, United States, wisdom gained from history, young adultNick Hearne

What would happen if you woke up one day and everything you believed in was a lie? What if everything you were taught about the world around you, how to behave, what to feel, how to think…turned out to be wrong? With just a few bits of information, your existence goes from a utopia to … Continue reading The Giver – (The 1993 Book) VERSUS The Giver (The 2014 Movie) →

Little Shop of Horrors – (The Musical) VERSUS Little Shop of Horrors – (The Movie Musical)

March 27, 20192GTAllYouCanEat, Versus Machine - A Comparison of Great Things"Skid Row (Downtown)", "Somewhere That's Green", "Suddenly, 1960, 1982, 1986, Alan Menken, Audrey II, bill murray, black comedy, blood, Christopher Guest, composer, David Geffen, directed, doo-wop, early 1960s rock and roll, early Motown, Ellen Greene, film, film adaptation, flesh, Frank Oz, hapless florist shop worker, horror comedy rock musical, Howard Ashman, human, Jim Belushi, John Candy, Levi Stubbs, Little Shop of Horrors, low budget, Off-Off-Broadway, Orpheum Theatre Off-Broadway, plant, rick moranis, roger corman, Seymour", Steve Martin, The Geffen Company, The Little Shop of Horrors, Venus flytrap, Vincent Gardenia, Warner Bros., writerNick Hearne

They’ve both got a green plant, they’ve both got vibrant characters, but just what ARE the differences between Little Shop of Horrors when we compare – The Musical (1982) VERSUS Little Shop of Horrors The Movie Musical (1986)? Versus Machine podcasters Joseph Burge and Ryan Stephens put both entries squarely into the Machine and hit … Continue reading Little Shop of Horrors – (The Musical) VERSUS Little Shop of Horrors – (The Movie Musical) →

A Christmas Carol (The Book) VERSUS A Christmas Carol (The 1999 Patrick Stewart Version)

December 21, 20182GTAllYouCanEat, Versus Machine - A Comparison of Great Things1843, 1844, 1999, A Christmas Carol, A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas, Bob Cratchit, British-American, Chapman & Hall, Charles Dickens, Christmas trees, David Jones, December, directed, Douglas Jerrold, Ebenezer Scrooge, Field Lane Ragged school, film adaptation, ghosts, Ghosts of Christmas Past, illustrated, Jacob Marley, John Leech, kinder, London, made-for-television, mid-Victorian, miser, novella, Patrick Stewart, Present, Richard E. Grant, TNT, traditions, Washington Irving, Yet to Come, zeitgeistNick Hearne

It’s another holiday-dipped in holiday spirit, courtesy of The Versus Machine! We put Christmas inside the crosshairs of this episode with the true, festive emotional roller coaster ride of “A Christmas Carol!” We put two greats into opposing ends of the Versus Machine and let them go! In this corner, note Charles Dicken’s A Christmas … Continue reading A Christmas Carol (The Book) VERSUS A Christmas Carol (The 1999 Patrick Stewart Version) →