Film and texts work entirely differently due to their different narrative structures. In this essay, we shall look into how the film compares with the text itself in the aspects of form and technique. The film portrays a simplified and shortened version of the text, which can understood as if every detail of the novel is being portrayed in the film, it would stretch very long, too long to sustain the interest of the viewers. …showed first 75 words of 1635 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1635 total…As the film itself is extremely brief and does not explain many of the events adequately and the reading of the book prior to watching the film would have make more sense of it. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone stands out as a solid piece of entertainment. The film's spell may not be as potent as that of the book, but there's still some magic in what the director and his crew have produced.