Harrison Bergeron - Movie and Story :: Movie Film comparison compare contrast

Harrison Bergeron- Movie and Story Awakening the Zombies Everybody was lastly equal. They were not only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quick than anybody else. This is a short, moreover powerful excerpt from the short story Harrison Bergeron. not only does it make you wonder why everyvirtuoso is equal, but as head makes you wonder how did everyone become equal? In the short story and the movie, Kurt Vonnegut presents a scary view of human society in the United States in the future, in which United States citizens argon all uniform. This then leads to their loss of individuality, and then to the absolute deformity of humanness. Both the movie and the short story bundle these themes, they also have a multitude of other similarities, but also have just as many deflections. These differences, irony and the symbolism surrounded by the two, be what I will be attempting to explore. The first apparent difference between the movie and the short story is that the short story takes head in 2081. In the story the government regulates everything, not just intelligence, but strength and beauty as well, and handicap people appropriately. The strong are forced to wear bags filled with lead balls beautiful people are forced to wear masks so others would not feel unequal to them in looks. The overly intelligent are forced to wear radio transmitters in their ears, that are tuned to a government station that constantly bombards them with horrible sounds to outsmart their thoughts. In the movie, the year is 2053 and everyone is forced to wear mind-altering headbands that rest on their temples. These headbands electronically modify intelligence, effectively decreasing everyones IQ to the coveted average point. Unlike the story, in the movie, no one wears masks to conceal their looks and many are better looking than other making them unequal in appearance to everyone else. Also the only system of weights bags that are worn, is by one dancer on the television that wore a small ankle weight with no resemblance to the enormous weight bags that are described in the story. Another difference is that in the story Harrison Bergeron had the apparent status of a god among these average people. He was fourteen years old, seven feet tall, athletic, unsloped looking, and a genius.