Compare And Contrast Most Dangerous Game And High Noon

The movie High Noon written by Carl Foreman and the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell are very similar yet very different at the same time. In High Noon the main character Will Kane is conflicted with many miniature conflicts, but the main one is he has to take down Frank Miller and his possy. On the other side in the story “The Most Dangerous Game”, the protagonist Rainsford gets stranded on an island, and then is hunted by a man named Zaroff who is a superb hunter and Rainsford has to survive a hunt against him. “The Most Dangerous Game” and High Noon are different in their own ways, but they also share similarities in its main characters, they are also similar in the conflicts and different in settings. In both the short story and the movie conflicts are presented, but all those little conflicts add up to the …show more content…
“His eyes made out the shadowy outlines of a palatial chateau; it was set in a high bluff, and on three sides of it cliffs dived down to where the sea licked greedy lips in the shadow.” (Foreman 7). This citation explains that in the “Most Dangerous Game” it is more of a jungle setting, while High Noon is set in the west. In Hadleyville a palatial chateau would not even be seen around town. In the short story there are trees and leaves everywhere as to in the movie it’s a desert. In the short story Rainsford arrives on an island that is deserted and completely covered in trees. The movie portrays a different picture of a western town with plenty of people. The town is also in the desert which is opposite from a jungle that is covered in trees. In the town of Hadleyville trees are nowhere to be seen instead tumbleweeds are everywhere. In the short story and the movie the settings are not very similar yet pretty much different, but both the characters manage to find their way around the diverse