The Perfect Storm, originally written by Sebastian Junger, has developed into a very well known novel and an icon to the Gloucester fishing community. Because of its widespread interest, a film company has taken it upon themselves to create a visual of what the crew of the Andrea Gail went through those few days before the destruction of the vessel. This turned into a massive motion picture and just like the book it became a large hit throughout the United States. I started reading the book initially forgetting that I have watched the movie. Within the first chapter I had realized I actually have seen the movie before. The connection was made when jflska’s wife asked him “did I do that” as she looked at his black eye. I am now about halfway through the book and have recently watched the movie again to compare and contrast the plot, themes and accurate story depiction. The plot of both the book and movie are the exact same but similar to all movies written about a book some parts are either skipped over, not given the same attention or given too much attention.

One example of this is the communication between the Andrea Gail and ground control about the upcoming storm. The book goes through no dialog about the communications but in the movie much of it is present. My best guess as to why this is the case is because in the book, the readers are given what is almost data about the storm. This is truly needed in order to understand what the crew is going through. Facts and descriptions like how waves are formed initially by a storm and how the storm faced by the Andrea Gail relate to other storms are all explained in the book but not in the movie at all. There are just a few scenes of the control room in a state of bedlam as they try to figure out what in the world this freak of a storm is doing. There is also a noticeable difference in the themes presented in both the book and the movie. In the movie, a theme of love especially between jfkdls and jhfsdlkajk is clearly represented. In the book, love is really not presented between human and human but is very evident between human and sea. In the beginning of the movie, when the Andrea Gail and crew set out on their voyage to the north Atlantic seas in search of great fishing out on the Georges Bank, fjkdsl and jfkldsa go through this full love scene. He “needs to go fishing” but she doesn’t want him to leave and she “has a bad feeling” and “its gonna be the last one” he promises and so and so. His love for the sea takes over and he leaves and throughout the entire movie their love is represented with constant flash backs and refrains back to Gloucester of her missing him and such. At the end of the movie, the rest of the crew sinks down with the ship and he floats up to the surface and he says in his mind something to her as he gets pounded by waves and she is listening to him speak and it somewhat kills the accuracy and validity of the movie but not to an extent of making it a bad depiction. Overall, I feel like both the movie and book do a great job accurately representing what the crew of the Andrea Gail went through during that violent tempest that cost them their lives. I recommend to anybody who has read the book to watch the movie and vice versa.