His reason, he explains to Marji, is that the said love affair is not possible as relationships between people from different social classes are not permitted (Tan). Satrapi, Marji’s father, is against the love relationship between his maid (Mehri) and his neighbor. But it is still easy to realize that two chapters in the book have been completely done away with in the movie: those of ‘The Letter’ and ‘The Jewels’ (Tan). The movie unites these chapters into a flowing story rather than bits of it. The chapters in the book are patches/bits of selected events of Marji’s life as she tells it. But the movie opens with Marji at the airport, who then goes to the bathroom and folds the veil on her head (Tan). The first chapter of the book, ‘The Veil’ opens with the description of Marji, 10, in 1980 wearing a veil. The first notable difference is in the opening.
For the scope of this paper, the focus will be on the major differences.ĭifferences in Plot. There are quite a number of differences between the book and the movie. The purpose of this paper is to pinpoint and discuss these deviations and differences. The notable thing is that, as is mostly expected when a book is adapted into a movie, the Persepolis movie also deviates from the book in certain ways. But that is expected as the book is what gives birth to the movie.
The movie shares a number of similarities with the book.
This effort came to fruition in an animation movie of the same name in 2007. Like most great literary works, there was hunger to bring the book to the big screen. Equally remarkable is the intelligence of the young narrator’s unrestrained voice. Marjane recounts the things to which she bears witness: the cruel impact of the war between Iran and Iraq and the success of the Islamic Revolution (Tan).īut what makes the book a great success is its black-and-white comic strip images that send powerful messages, and in spite of the strong themes that the story explores, it manages to be both funny and heartbreaking. Persepolis was originally a series of two books the story is a critically acclaimed Memoir by Marjane Satrapi in which she tells of her growing up in Iran in the days of the Islamic Revolution that saw Shah’s regime overthrown (Tan).
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