Compare two different openings to ‘of mice and men’ by John Steinbeck. Explore the techniques and devices that are used.

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Compare two different openings to ‘of mice and men’ by John Steinbeck. Explore the techniques and devices that are used.

We are analysing the openings of ‘ of mice and men’. We have to concentrate on the two different openings of the film. Gary Sinise produced one in 1992 and john Steinbeck produced the other. There was a film version and a T.V version and a text to it.

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The openings are very important to both film and text; this is because it has to be eye catching to the audience. The opening has to be dramatic or has to say something as in what is happening, clearly. He has to show the setting and what kind of film it is by using sound effects like music or sounds of animals in the background. On the other hand the text has to be written in great detail for the reader to imagine what it would be like and what is going on.  

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