Book vs. Movie: ANNA KARENINA (2012)

OK... so I don't profess to be a professional critic at all, this is just my very brief interpretation of the book, the movie, and how they relate :) 

THE BOOK:

Background/General Info: 

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, 738 pages (officially the longest book I've ever read, well besides my textbooks that is >_<)

My favourite Characters:

- LEVIN: I really identified with him for some strange reason. I felt so sorry for him when Kitty shot him down but in the end I was relieved he found the happiness he was searching for.

- ANNA: She was definitely suffering from some kind of morphine side effects right? Or paranoia? Or maybe both cause this child was acting a fool. I liked her introduction into the story but I quickly tired of her and her antics. At the end of the day, she horned cheated on her husband and neglected her child, plain and simple. And when things didn't seem to be working out with the horner outside man, she proceeded to kill herself -_- Sigh, annoying. I felt like this book should have been called Constantine Dmitrich Levin instead as his story captivated me much more than hers... but I guess Anna Karenina has a certain assonant ring to it...

General Impression:

- GREAT book, wayyy too long. I love Levin and all, but the scenes in the book about his farming and interaction with the labourers were too long and too numerous. I really did not need all that depth. As a matter of fact, I skipped half of those scenes in the book, I really wasn't there for it :/

THE MOVIE

Background/General Info: 

Anna Karenina (2012) with Keira Knightley, Jude Law, and other random and not-so-random actors and actresses

My favourite Characters:

- OBLONSKY: The actor who played Oblonsky acted in some other film I know, but I'm feeling too lazy to Google him now, but in any case, he was HILARIOUS in this movie. Loved his presence every time he came  on the screen

- ANNA: Well I am a Keira Knightley die hard fan, so I loved her in it. She played the paranoia well, much better than her role in Dangerous Minds, but that's another story for another day.

- EVERYBODY ELSE: The acting was generally well done, the lady who played Kitty actually got me to like Kitty so yay for that. The only disappointing thing for me was that I thought Jude Law would play Levin, but he was cast as Anna's husband, which worked I guess but I more pictured him as Levin while reading the novel.

General Impression:

Great movie, the layout of the film as a moving play/musical was really unexpected and turned out to be really awesome. Give me a fun, flowing movie with great characters any day!

SUMMARY: BOOK vs. MOVIE

Liked the book, loved the movie!

Blogger's Note:

Well that's it for now, I had no ideas for a post this week because the past week has been lacking in creativity, no time to do anything fun :( So since I recently finished this book and watched the movie, I decided hey, why not. Thanks for stopping by :)