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Research question:

How do movies adapted from books differ from the book itself?

Explanation of our research question:

Nowadays lots of people prefer going to the movies instead of reading a book. However, a lot of movies are adaptations of literary works and other books. But how much of the original work can be seen in the film? Can the experience of a watcher compare to the experience of the reader? Results of the investigation can help shed light on how much of the original work is lost in a movie adaptation. One could get insight in whether a watcher of a movie is able to get the same experience from the movie as the author of the book intended for the reader.

Approach:

In our approach we make use of “Unix for Poets” by Kenneth Ward Church. We are working with two data sets. The first data set contains a digital version of the book “Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban”, the second data set contains a digitized version of the movie script of the book’s movie adaptation. Firstly a standardized version of each data set was created by using the following commands:

cat FILE1 
wc -l FILE1 
wc -m FILE1
tr -d [:punct:] < FILE1 > FILE2
tr [:upper:] [:lower:] < FILE2 > FILE3
tr -d '\r' < FILE3 > FILE4
tr ' ' '\n' < FILE4 > FILE5
sort FILE5 > FILE6
uniq -c FILE6 > FILE7