Who wrote the novel 'Slaughterhouse Five'?
Slaughterhouse-Five (film) Slaughterhouse-Five (film) Slaughterhouse-Five is a 1972 film, often misconstrued as science fiction genre, based on Kurt Vonnegut's novel of the same name about a writer who tells a story in random order of how he was a soldier in World War II and was abducted by aliens. The screenplay is by Stephen Geller and the film was directed by George Roy Hill. It stars Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, and Valerie Perrine, and features Eugene Roche, Sharon Gans, Holly Near, and Perry King. The scenes set in Dresden were filmed in Prague. The other scenes were filmed in Minnesota. Vonnegut wrote
Slaughterhouse-Five after the war as Pilgrim comes in contact with the work of Kilgore Trout's novel "The Gospel from Outer Space". Trout's fictional novel within "Slaughterhouse-Five" explores the journey of a visitor from outer space who studies Christianity to determine "why Christians found it so easy to be cruel." This "cruel Christianity" presents a direct contrast to Billy's loving Jesus. Taking some of Trout's novel to heart, the narrator and Billy Pilgrim look to create a new sense of Christianity and a more human-like Jesus. The idea of the human-Jesus is a central piece in analyzing Pilgrim's eventual struggle with fate