After both reading the essay and watching the movies in Thursdays class, I feel like I definitely understand and appreciate the short story The Killers a lot more. When I had just read the short story I didn't follow it at all which really made me dislike the entire story. Then we watched the portions of the movies in class. Of the two we watched I prefered the older version better. I liked the simple way it was filmed and the way it almost perfectly followed the story. That really helped me to connect what I was confused about while reading and it also helped me understand what Hemingway really was trying to convey. I did not however like the second movie we watched. I don't like the fact that the second movie was called Ernest Hemingway's The Killers and didn't portray one bit of the story line. It seemed like the only similarities between the two movies was that there was two "killers" and that the person recieving the hit didn't fight at all.
I did like reading the essay. I felt like the essay was very detailed in telling what happened in each of the movies and their similarities and differences both with each other and to the actual story. Reading this essay really helped me to not only connect each of the the movies to the short story, but it also helped me to connect each of the movies to each other as well.
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