There are a few movies which depict the same theme and
storyline from the short story "The Most Dangerous
Game".
First, there is one which depicts the story with a
few minor changes to the script. In the movie "The Most Dangerous Game" (1932), this
depiction shows Rainsford meeting Zaroff in the midst of already having two other
"parties" tagged for the hunt. In this adaptation, Rainsford pairs with Eve to escape
Zaroff's deadly game. Zaroff has already disposed of her brother and now she must face
Zaroff with the help of Rainsford. (I show this movie to my students after reading the
story.)
Second is a comical adaptation of the story. It is
called "The Pest" and stars John Leguizamo. It was released in 1997. While the movie is
far from the original text, the story-line is based upon Connell's "The Most Dangerous
Game".
Thirdly, this list includes other films based either
on the actual text itself or as loose adaptations (I have not seen any of these). I
found the list on
Wikipedia:
- title="Battle Royale (film)"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Royale_%28film%29">Battle
Royale, a Japanese film, could be viewed as an adaptation of the
concept, where a class of students is abandoned on an island and only one is allowed to
leave alive.- The href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction">sf/horror films
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predator_%28film%29">Predator
(1987), href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predator_2">Predator 2 (1990)
and, more obviously, href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predators_%28film%29">Predators
(2010) can also be seen as loose adaptations of this plot, although they differ by
having a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterrestrial_life">non-human
hunter.
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