Harrison Bergeron - Movie and Story :: Movie Film comparison compare contrast

Harrison Bergeron- icon and Story Awakening the Zombies Everybody was fin each(prenominal)y equal. They were non only equal forward God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking for than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. This is a short, but powerful survival from the short bosh Harrison Bergeron. Not only does it make you wonder wherefore everyone is equal, but as well makes you wonder how did everyone become equal? In the short study and the photograph, Kurt Vonnegut presents a scary view of human monastic order in the United States in the future, in which United States citizens are all uniform. This then hold outs to their loss of individuality, and therefore to the absolute deformity of humanness. Both the movie and the short story share these themes, they also have a peck of different similarities, but also have just as some differences. These differences, irony and t he symbolism between the two, are what I will be attempting to explore. The first apparent difference between the movie and the short story is that the short story takes place in 2081. In the story the authorities regulates everything, not just intelligence, but strength and beauty as well, and check-out procedure people appropriately. The strong are laboured to wear off bags filled with lead balls beautiful people are forced to wear masks so others would not feel unequal to them in looks. The overly intelligent are forced to wear radio transmitters in their ears, that are tuned to a government post that constantly bombards them with horrible sounds to scramble their thoughts. In the movie, the year is 2053 and everyone is forced to wear mind-altering headbands that rest on their temples. These headbands electronically modify intelligence, effectively diminish everyones IQ to the desired average point. Unlike the story, in the movie, no one wears masks to conceal their looks an d some are better looking than other making them unequal in appearance to everyone else. Also the only cant bags that are worn, is by one dancer on the television that wore a small ankle burden with no resemblance to the enormous weight bags that are described in the story. Another difference is that in the story Harrison Bergeron had the apparent status of a god among these average people. He was fourteen years old, seven feet tall, athletic, good looking, and a genius.