You guys know shawshank redemption by Stephen King? This is just a shot in the dark, but I need to formulate a thesis. I'm comparing things between the movie and the book.
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You could write about why they changed what they changed for the movie. Like what elements of the narrative in the book wouldn't have worked or wouldn't have appealed to movie audiences in the narrative of the movie, and why.
I don't know how true this is but I've heard Morgan Freeman say in interviews that the reason it didn't do well in the theaters is because no one could remember the name and it was just referred to as some prison movie.
How about comparing Steven King's version with Leo Tolstoy's version? I bet that hasn't been beaten like a dead horse that was buried in the pet sematary and brought back to life to be beaten to death again.
Maybe something about why they cast Morgan Freeman as a Caucasian Irishman?
Are you aware of the original denoument that was cut from the film on Kubrick's order after the opening weekend?
Is this for a school assignment?
In my teaching, what I try to hammer into my students' heads is that a "thesis," properly speaking, is your answer to a question. Without a question, you have no thesis, just a statement of your topic. So what you need to start by doing is brainstorming questions about how to interpret the movie. The question you choose to pursue should be a difficult one, not too easy to answer, that different people could disagree on. That way your thesis becomes the basis of an argument rooted in analysis, not just a report of interesting information about the film.
In my teaching, what I try to hammer into my students' heads is that a "thesis," properly speaking, is your answer to a question. Without a question, you have no thesis, just a statement of your topic. So what you need to start by doing is brainstorming questions about how to interpret the movie. The question you choose to pursue should be a difficult one, not too easy to answer, that different people could disagree on. That way your thesis becomes the basis of an argument rooted in analysis, not just a report of interesting information about the film.
Hmm, come to think of it, my essay on The Shining was not a thesis, but an analysis. I've never done a thesis in my life.
