Comparison between the films "Charly" and "Flowers for Algernon".

Charly. The movie "Charly" and the book "Flowers for Algernon" have quite a few differences. Charlie's intelligence grows and drops again in both stories, His romance with Ms. Kinnian, and his Doctor were different in the two stories as well. In the movie Charly, Ms. Kinnian was already engaged. As Charly became more intelligent thanks to the female Dr. Strauss, Ms. Kinnian became more involved with him. But when Charly started to lose his mental …showed first 75 words of 207 total…

…showed last 75 words of 207 total…intelligence failed. Between the two works, there are also some similarities. The basic plot of the story remains the same through- out both. The characters are the same, with the exception of Dr. Strauss' gender. Not anything other than that though. The movie version and the short story of Charly's life have differences and yet all at the same time many similarities. In both works the audience comes to care abut charly and his future.