Filmmakers are granted artistic license because film is an art, and because film and literature aren't always exactly compatible. There are many artistic components to making a film. The plot or story behind the film is one of the most important components. The creators of Joy Kills, in making a film version of Kate Chopin's story, The Story of an Hour, have taken artistic license to its limits. The entire story was dismantled and then completely reinvented. Many characters who are barely present or don't even appear in the story emerge to play important roles in the life of this heart-sick young woman in the film. Louise along with the other characters has changed drastically in the transition to celluloid. The filmmakers, in an attempt to make a more appealing film, forgot the story they were supposed to tell. Louise has turned into a little girl who has to depend on man to take care of her. Louise begs Brently to go to the Paris Gardens. Beg like a child begging for something that is impossible to give. Brently has to lock her in their house to protect her from her curiosity and need to see the world. The filmmakers don't give her the common sense to realize the dangers she would face in seeing Paris and all the other places she would like to visit. Louise remains the child in the flashbacks, and Brently has replaced her dead father as the guardian of her world's soul. Brently must protect her from the world and from herself. She is made to be completely dependent on him for his daily needs to the point of being his only window to the outside world. There are no female positions of authority in his life. Aunt Joe remains in the background and Marjorie eventually has to answer to Brently. Louise sees men as the only authority in her life. She herself as a woman must feel helpless before the will of men. Brently also chooses the destinations of their daily visits to distant and exotic places. These excursions are Louise's only escape. Brently is meant to be her captor and savior at the same time. Her fate is completely dependent on his, but she is given no control over either of them.