differences. The Beach directed by Danny Boyle and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Guillaume

Canet, Robert Carlyle and Virginie Ledoyen. The genre of this film is Adventure/Drama because

of the intense moments in the movie and because the movie is one big trip to an island. I think

this film is overwhelming because of the extreme details. For instance the starting of the film when

Richard describes how travelling should be done, I also love this film because of the unique

The Beach is about a traveller named Richard (Leonardo DiCaprio) who sets off to

Thailand searching for an adventure. Accepting every offer, he feels like nothing can stand in his

way. When he is lying in his bed that night he hears an obnoxious Scottish man named Daffy Duck

(Robert Carlyle) who breaks into his room and tells Richard about an exquisite beach. The

following day he finds a map to this infamous beach; when going into Daffy's room to thank him

he finds him dead. Richard immediately accepting the offer of the map goes and asks two other

people to join him on his trek, Francoise(Virginie Ledoyen) and Etienne(Guillaume Canet) who

part a little bit better as I found when he was happy in the film it looked like he was faking it.

the beach shows that not even friends can be trusted and that she was doing it for the beach shows

story takes place in Thailand and more specifically in the city of Koh Panhagen and in the isles of

rememberable because of the special effects and the camera angles, and because it is like no other

importance about society and human behaviour. This film teaches us the lessons that people are

are missing play a key role in the story, for instance, in the novel Jed is the person that takes care

film fully. It presents a good message to us on how we act and that we our destroying our world.

of Christo(the dying Swede) whereas in the film Etienne is the one to care of the Christo. Also

Richard's new best friend whereas in the film we barely see him. One major problem left out in

The most outstanding scene in this movie to me is when Richard is running through the

what I would do in their situation and their reasons for acting the way they do. The more

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