The Pearl
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Movie Reviews of The Pearl
Movie Review: Worthwhile for the classroom
Summary: 3 Stars
I am also an English teacher and I was thrilled to learn of this film adaptation. Even after reading the other two reviews I was excited to show this to my students after we finished our reading, and the changes that the film makes are interesting rather than disappointing. One of the projects that I offer to my students is to change the storyline to fit their interests, including the ending, and I presented this film as one person's vision. I love the way it starts with Kino as a little boy listening to his father's advice, and I like the actor who is cast as Kino the grown man. I like how his brother Juan has a larger role. In fact, I like the happy ending because it is something I used to discuss with my students, asking them how things could have been resolved differently. Richard Harris is wonderful as the shrewd doctor, and the scene where he "buys" eternal salvation from the priest is excellent. Yes, it is always preferable to see a faithful adaptation of a novel, but it doesn't ruin the fact that I can enhance my own and my students' appreciation of a great story.Movie Review: The Pearl video
Summary: 3 Stars
I was amzed at how rapidly the video was sent to me. Just a matter of days. Thank you very much!
The video is beautifully filmed. The opening is very important and reflects the atmosphere of the story in Baja, California (which is in Mexico). The colours , the straw houses, the fish, the village, the neighbours' proximity to each other.
There are differences in the book and the film. Some I like. Some I don't.
I am using it as a teaching tool and my students like this film (and book) very much.
Movie Review: Poor Richard Harris
Summary: 2 Stars
I teach this novel in junior high and the students love it; unfortunately I could not recall a video/dvd other than the black and white version from the 1930's. When I searched youtube for an idea for students to make their own video, I discovered this version and was so excited! Richard Harris has been one of my favorite actors since Camelot and A Man Named Horse (plus the Harry Potter movies). After viewing The Pearl, I was saddened and disappointed at how the screenplay writers changed up the story, making the greedy, obese doctor of the novel into a feeble-minded, stool pigeon in cahoots with the priest and pearl buyers to swindle Kino out of his "pearl of the world". The scene with Harris running back and forth looking to see if Kino is on his way to the pearl buyer is ridiculous! The screenwriters also added a woman in the doctor's bedroom which will surely have to be "fast forwarded" IF I dare to show my students. Just before I found out about this version of the movie made from the novel, I was telling the librarian about the book and she and I were both wondering why Hollywood had not grabbed this fantastic story and made a major motion picture out of it. Now I know why....someone took this story and made a mess out of it. The surprise ending was also changed in the movie. This is an unjustice to Mr. Steinbeck almost as pitiful as the way Hollywood changed the last scene from The Grapes of Wrath. The original endings are SHOCKING but I guess Hollywood wanted a happier ending. Steinbeck surely has rolled over in his grave!Movie Review: What ever happened to political correctness?
Summary: 2 Stars
I teach the novella -- The Pearl. I bought this movie to show my students. I had high hopes, but this movie departed from the events of the novel in a serious way, was badly acted, and literally had actors in "face paint" portraying Hispanic people. I wish I hadn't wasted my money on it.Movie Review: The Pearl
Summary: 2 Stars
This movie is based on the book by John Steinbeck. This DVD follows the book pretty closely, and I use it after I read the book with my 8th grade students. If you are watching the movie for pleasure, it's not that great!