Herman Melville describes the three main characters whose names are Claggert, Captain Vere, and Billy Budd. Movies give the audience a “summary” of the character’s personalities while books tend to elaborate the details of the characters. Even though Claggert, Vere and Budd’s personalities are presented differently in the book than they are in the movie, they do have some similarity. In the movie Captain Vere is presented completely different than he is in …showed first 75 words of 1013 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1013 total…for action, suspense and all the other “ideal” movie traits. The Billy Budd movie left out too much important info. I think the movie is a phony. It fails to identify many details that make a book a book. As you can tell I enjoyed the novella much more than the movie. In my opinion books can’t even be compared to their movie. The book leaves dust in the face of every movie competitor.