Michael Palin is a famous comedic actor, and has travelled the world repeatedly, each time with a different path and purpose. I will be looking at a scene and the accompanying entry from his travel diary of Around the World in 80 Days. The scene I will be specifically focusing on is the scene where he attends a football match in Cairo, and will be talking about how the different mediums show different fan environments.
In the film, the fans come across as very enthusiastic and …. This is done by using lots of shots where you can see many fans all at once, but not showing the game. This means that they can be cheering for something that you cannot see. In addition, in most of the shots, Michael Palin looks more relaxed than the rest of the fans, which also makes the rest of the crowd seem riled up.
As you can see in the image above, the spectators all seem to be very riled up, while Michael Palin looks more calm, and you cannot see the play going on, meaning you have no idea what they are cheering for, and it might just be a normal play.
The book chose to describe the fans as much more violent towards the game. In the text, in the third paragraph, it writes about how riot police had arrived for the end of the game, and were surrounding the pitch. This leads the reader to believe that the fans might attack the players, as well as the referees if the game does not result in a home team win.
While each medium chose to show the general environment in the stadium, both of them chose to highlight one key element that the fans were welcoming to Palin. Both the scene and the text chose to talk about how Palin was cheering for the wrong team, and the fans, instead of being hostile towards him, helped point out which team was which.
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