#differences between book and movie

[jackklinemybeloved]

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Percy’s warning to fellow half-bloods in the audience, across different mediums.

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan (2005) The Lighting Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical (2017) Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series Teaser (2023)

#I have been thinking about making this for SO long #but this semester sucked #anyway I love it when adaptations play to their strengths and make changes to fit the medium #and these little differences tingle my brain a little bit #I didn’t want to check if the movies had something similar because I am Tired and the show and movie version would be pretty similar #anyway #the musical line always gets me #‘better get headed to the exits now’ is such a good adaptation of the ‘close this book idea’ #and I know I could’ve just done one of the excerpts from the book but I like both #and I didn’t want to have the paragraph in between to make it just like. a block of text. #percy jackson #pjo #pjo disney+ #pjo Disney #walker scobell #pjo show #percy jackon and the olympians #web weaving #riordanverse

[critical-chris]

All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)

"Germany will soon be empty"

For a handful of years after college, I never read a book. I obviously had to read things in everyday life, but the most progress I made in any single book was getting halfway through American Psycho before putting it down for three years. By the way, that book gets batshit disgusting in the second-half stretch, and makes me shudder at the thought of a rat as much as the book our film of the day was based upon.

When 2022 rolled around, I thought about what resolutions I could pretend I'd follow through on. Exercise, diet, all the usual ones you give up by the Lunar New Year (January 22nd this year, I had to look it up). After looking at the near empty bookshelves in my office, I thought 'why not start reading books this year?' And a resolution was born, and I'm proud of myself for reading 12 titles total, one per month, before Christmas. My last book ended up being Stephen King's It. A book so thorough in it's set-ups, themes, and length (1100 pages, go fuck yourself Stevie) that it made me hate the 2017 movie adaptation and its sequel after revisiting them. For the record, I think the TV movie with Tim Curry is a better adaptation of that story.

I kept today's movie in my Netflix queue forever, waiting to get done with It and move to this title so I had a chance to read the 1929 novel before seeing the most recent adaptation (apparently there were 1930 and 1979 movies made about the book). 159 quick pages breezed by, and I finally sat on my bare mattress, with the sheets in the wash, to watch Edward Berger's 2017 offering.

When I was reading All Quiet on the Western Front, I realized I was becoming the very thing I rolled my eyes at for years: people who can't stop telling you how much better the book was than the movie. Even when I was a kid, I loathed the classmate that talked about how much better the Harry Potter series was than the films. Yeah, shithead, we all read them and yeah, asshole, they were mostly all more detailed and richer than the movies. Except Order of the Phoenix, yeesh that book is a slog to finish. Snooze city.

Therefore, I'm not going to spend much of this review talking about the differences between All Quiet on the Western Front (2022): the book and the movie. I'll save those points for the end if anyone is interested in reading the major ones I noticed. With that out of the way, let's get on to the review--

First, the movie is all in German (as it should be) so make sure you're in for 2 1/2 hours of intently watching this film. I have no idea if there is a dub available since I know Netflix likes to do that sometimes, but please don't watch anything dubbed. Just read the damn movie, it's so much better when you don't have to suspend belief when words don't match moving mouths.

This movie follows a group of bright-eyed, young adult German recruits enlisting in the army during World War I, sent to fight in the trenches on a path to Paris in what they believe will be three days long. They are subjected to the brutal, grim, unforgiving reality of trench warfare and beaten down from idealistic teens to emotionally dulled war fodder. It is realistic and critical of its depictions of combat, war politics, and loss.

I'm a big fan of war movies, and was always fascinated with World War II history like every young white boy who couldn't fight to save his life. However, I had not researched World War I as much but was fascinated with the release of 1917 and was looking forward to this film, expecting it to be another vicious depiction of The Great War. And fuck was this movie heavy and took a more Hacksaw Ridge approach to the violence.

The cinematography in this movie is perfect in my opinion. The trenches and battlefields are constantly muddy and fog mists down and blinds the viewer and soldiers from the terror hiding within. These scenes are countered with the warm-lit luxury of political leaders' offices far from the front lines, and French countryside. I've seen some complaints about the movie feeling dreary and depressing. Uh, yeah that's the point. Nobody claims Saving Private Ryan is too dreary because it's the fucking point.

The acting, all by German actors I've personally never seen before, is also great. I swear the lead actor Felix Kammerer who plays Paul is just the German version of the kid in 1917. Albrecht Schuch is fantastic as Kat, who ends up having the closest bond with Paul. Everyone else is decently well-rounded or just play their character trope before being horribly killed, frankly.

I liked the addition of the political storyline headed by Daniel Bruhl negotiating Germany's terms of surrender (although refusing to say it). I thought is was a good underline of the movie's theme that government and politics think of soldiers as means to an end and second priority to their own desires.

There's nothing I can really mention that could have been done better in this movie. While it was an important part of the book, maybe they didn't have to show the scene of Paul stabbing the French soldier half to death and watching him die in a crater. That could have taken the 2:30 hour runtime and cut it down to 2:15 by cutting that alone, which is a bit more palatable of a runtime. I'm annoyed by the recent wave of movies with 2:30+ runtimes that really have no business being that long. Marvel, I'm looking at you in particular.

Overall, this is a very successful war film, a decent adaptation of the source material, and a movie I'm sure will garner a few awards.

All Quiet on the Western Front: 8.2/10

Now, for those of you interested in differences between the book and the movie, and what I thought of their choices, here we go-

The major difference I noticed is the removal of the plotlines where Paul goes on leave to visit his family and when he serves as a prison guard, and when he and Kat lie in the hospital. Instead, they have written out the political storyline of the generals hammering out details of surrender, and giving background on the mustached general who eventually sends off the troops on a fools errand at the end of the movie. Personally, I liked the political storyling to emphasize the disconnect between the government and it's soldiers, but I think the book did it the better way.

In the book, it shows not only the disconnect between the leaders and men, but also the soldiers and their families, neighbors, and fellow citizens. They've been through so much shit they can't function normally in society, and begin feeling sympathy for their captured enemies. I think that would be a bit more interesting than the film's choices. If you haven’t read it, I recommend you do so.

#all quiet on the western front #book #book adaptation #differences between book and movie #differences between movie and book #edward berger #netflix #netflix movie

[tainebot01]

A silly little drawing from January last year, based on the difference between book and movie Toothless.

#httyd #httyd fanart #httyd books #httyd fandom #my art #I also posted this to instagram but that accounts pretty much silent now #direct quoting from my instagram: I always felt the difference between book and movie Toothless was hilariously jarring #if the met I feel they would either be best buds or it would immediately be on sight #probably the latter

[blueskittlesart]

uh oh sisters. hunger games hyperfixation

#^ guy writing a mental essay about a largely trivial difference between the movie and book versions of ABOSAS #i apologize in advance

[violentdelvghts]

With all my knowledge and intrusion... I could never entirely predict you. I can feed the caterpillar and I can whisper through the chrysalis, but... what hatches, follows its own nature and is beyond me.

#hannibaledit #clannibal #hannigram #hannibal lecter #clarice starling #will graham #silence of the lambs #tvedit #movieedit #filmedit #mine* #mine*gifs #i love these two ships so much and enjoy both books/movies and the show #i want people to appreciate clarice and hannibal's relationship more tho #the fandom is so small it's unbearable #but overall i cannot stress it enough how beautiful their dynamics are given all similarities and differences between them

[queenofalmosts]

I've literally seen multiple people in published article reviews of red white and royal blue say that one difference between the movie and the book is that in the movie alex already knows he's bisexual but in the book he doesn't and it just makes me wonder if we watched the same movie??? Like his coming to terms with being bisexual is obviously not as involved or detailed in the movie as in the book but he doesn't already consider himself to be bi in the movie until after his conversation with Nora... just like in the book he doesn't place any significance on his prior experience with guys until Henry and then he realizes that he is actually bi and that wasn't just guys being dudes lmao... like it's just driving me crazy that people are writing full published articles while misinterpreting what actually happens in the movie... like people's media literacy really does suck sometimes... the reason it's a big deal for him to tell Henry and his mom that he is bisexual is because he literally just realized it himself!!!!! He didn't already know!!!! where the fuck are people getting that from????

#its just annoying that people keep saying that's a significant difference btwn the book and movie when its literally not #and they just didn't understand the movie... #🙄 #like talk about the actual differences between the book and the movie but that's not one... #red white and royal blue #~

[sejjiplinth]

sejanus and marcus truly have one of the most insane dynamics from the franchise, like i have never been this crushed over a story between two characters in my life. 😭

i was really expecting the movie to take advantage of their past, to bring that raw emotion to the screen. because even after a whole DECADE, sejanus still remembers and cherishes marcus for what he did for him when they were children. marcus helping sejanus with his hurt finger on his own, showing him kindness, never left him. sejanus never experienced that level of generosity in the capitol, i don’t think he was treated that way ever again.

it breaks me reading their scenes in the zoo and during the questionnaire, because sejanus so desperately wants to make amends with him. but marcus has made up his mind, he doesn’t say a word to him, he doesn’t trust him, and he never gives in. the plinth’s are despised in two, sejanus being his mentor won’t change that. sejanus bringing him food, and offering it to him multiple times won’t either. sejanus goes as far as to ask coriolanus to trade tributes because marcus being his tribute is taking that much of a toll on him, while he clarifies that it’d be terrible with anyone, it’s marcus that brings him so much emotional distress.

marcus’s torture being displayed as a message, but also to get under sejanus’s skin… dr. gaul teases him about marcus’s disappearance, (most-likely) knowing they’d already caught him. and looping back to the reaping, strabo buying the district two boy… done only to shove it in his face that he could never go back to two. sabotaging him with marcus seems to be a common theme.

when marcus dies, sejanus honors him. sacrificing himself just to do so. he’d planned to die in there with him, too. and if coriolanus hadn’t been sent in, it would’ve worked. when he agrees to leave with coriolanus, he doesn’t want to go without marcus’s body.

marcus, undeniably, had a very large role in sejanus’s actions, in his resistance, and once he was gone, sejanus doesn’t have a purpose to live anymore. he tells coriolanus in part three that after the arena, he had planned to end his own life, one of his reasonings being because of what happened to marcus. and that was not the first time he’s considered suicide over marcus’s fate, he feels that guilty over him.

sejanus still keeps pictures of marcus, takes the childhood class photo where marcus is standing behind him to district twelve. ma comments on how she knew marcus’s dismay “hit him hard”. coriolanus calling sejanus dramatic over going into the arena, and sejanus reacting as if coriolanus had slapped him across the face.

they met for the first time in district two, then again in the capitol, and eventually in death. just . MY GOD!!!!!!!

#can’t get them out of my head HEELLPPPP #typed all this at like 2am sorry for any mistakes lord #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #the hunger games #sejanus plinth #marcus tbosas #actually praying that they get some deleted scenes #the difference between their book and movie relationship….. sejjiplinth’s villain origin story…… #sejanus / marcus you will always be loved by me

[5-pp-man]

no you don't get it. i literally love stories where they dive into people's hearts/minds (literally or figuratively) sm it's my favourite type of storytelling.

#p5s #fairy ranmaru #shiguang daili ren #limbo the king #king in limbo #pet anime #pet manga #pet 2020 #dmmd #homunculus #homunculus manga #sankaku mado no sotogawa wa yoru #the night beyond the tricornered window #sarazanmai #id invaded #paprika 2006 #wonder egg priority #tedpost #it allows them to portray emotions in such visually interesting ways #and is a great way to make parallels between the person who's mind they're in and the main characters #these were all the ones i could think of rn but i bet theres more that i havent seen yet #also i only mentioned scramble here because i think it does this concept better than regular p5 lmao. #FEEL FREE TO SUGGEST ME MORE OF THESE #doesnt matter what medium or genre!! could be a book a movie idc i eat stuff like this upppp #EDIT; updates the post after reading ltk and checking if tricorner fit this desc #EDIT; added homunculus too because whilst technically he never actually enters anyones minds he does visualise them into the real world #so its the same end result of seeing a person's true thoughts and feelings. but a slightly different method to get there

[midnightstargazer]

There's a tendency in the Marauders fandom that I don't think I've ever seen to this extent before, of making no distinction between headcanon/fanon and canon. Granted, I only started getting back into fandom stuff within the past year, but I was involved with a lot of different ones in my teens and early twenties, including an earlier version of the HP fandom. There was always a distinction.

With Marauders fandom, it's not just "I totally forgot Remus isn't obsessed with chocolate in canon" or "it never actually says Mary and Lily were close friends, but I think it makes sense if they were." A lot of the time, there's no distinction at all between what was in canon, what was in a really popular popular fanfic, and what somebody just made up five minutes ago. It's more like:

"I think people forget that [headcanon]"

"It's so sad that [headcanon]"

"When [headcanon happened], [character] totally [did/felt/thought] [whatever]"

And it's so often totally out-of-left-field stuff that has nothing to do with canon - ships that are never even hinted at, details about characters that are literally mentioned once, etc. Or even things that directly contradict canon, not as AU/canon divergence ideas, but as facts.

Is this because we all hate JKR? Because a lot of newer fans haven't read the books/seen the movies? IDK, but I feel like there's an issue with just stating things as fact when they're very much not. Like, I'd rather read about why someone thinks [insert headcanon here] - whether that involves analyzing and critiquing the canon text or something as simple as "I think it would be cool." Headcanons are great! But I think something gets lost when we forget they're headcanons.

#sorry if this is too harsh #I love developing these background characters from canon #I love that there's such a huge part of the fandom wanting to do that these days #I just miss having the basic understanding that we all are familiar with the same source material #and that there's a difference between what comes from the books/movies and what was invented by fans

[jacksoldsideblog]

just randomly floored again by how good fight club is. thinking about the scene where the narrator is desperately tracking tyler across the country. both the book and movie do it perfectly, though in different ways. the movie is very intentional, there's a sense Tyler is playing with him, the narrator is desperate and his only goal is to track down Tyler. i do love the added Tyler was setting up franchises line. but also, it's interesting to think about how it wouldn't work in the book because the tone of all of it is different.

in the book, he's actually still working. it's after he — he alone — takes the sacrifice of hessel, and has 12 licenses in his pocket, he's searching for Tyler not out of suspicion but because Tyler dumped him and he wants to find him. in the book the narrator is much more on board. during his search there's a sense that he's starting to realize, doesn't want to realize, and then the bartender spills it all and he hates it. he hates it because it means Tyler isn't real. and when Tyler establishes the new status quo, there's a distinct sense that the part the narrator hates the most is simply that Tyler isn't real. yes, all the project mayhem is horrifying he guesses, but that pales in comparison to the fact that Tyler isn't real and he can't unlearn that. And Tyler says he won't disappear, but he won't see him either, and that's when the narrator gets all pissy.

#fight club #theres like no coherent thought here really #i think the differences between the movie and the book are interesting #both are very good but i think theres more depth in the book partially due to just like. time allowance of medium #and also because as a movie it got processed by more people #distracting myself ..

[sugarcoatednightshade]

Tired of seeing fic on ao3 claiming to be based off dune the book series when it’s very obvious that the writer has only seen dune the movie(s).

Yes, it matters. Yes, these are very different works. You’re probably doing this for visibility; I don’t care. Archive Of Our Own is a fucking archive, stop labeling your works with a tag you know is factually incorrect. It makes it impossible for me to filter for fics I want to read.

#ao3 #dune #dune books #dune messiah #written because I’ve seen so many fics claiming to be based off the book who have no idea who Alia is #like girl! that’s my girl!!! #if your fic doesn’t contain Alia The Murderous Toddler then I don’t want it in my house in my home in my life #also the fight between feyd and paul went so differently in the books vs the movie. like it’s barely even an obstacle for Paul in the books #the differences are subtle in fic but really obvious if you’re expecting to see one thing and then all of a sudden it’s something else #(did I just describe all of fic? yes. but I hope y’all know what I mean. we are working off of different canon baselines) #seriously Alia is 15 pounds soaking wet three year old child. and she kills the baron . for fun… #also the fremen are not prudes. most people get this. but really neither is the rest of the empire??? I mean the harkonens obviously were. #.like that.. but also I get the feeling that no one else really cared #I’m only on the second book so I could be wrong. but from here it seems like the dune universe has a very fluid understanding of gender and #and sexuality. and polyamory. and drug use. #shout out to face changers gotta be one of my favorite genders btw #anyway. ugh. #long rant is long

[after-witch]

me, trying to explain to Mahito why the scene in Emma (2020) when Mr. Knightley asks Harriet to dance is heartwarming and heartwrenching and makes me tear up and twist my metaphorical old timey handkerchiefs: okay so you see Mr. Elton just publicly snubbed Harriet, right? he first asked Mrs. Weston to dance but when she says no she's like hey here is this lovely lady who needs to dance and Mr. Elton then pretends he can't dance because he's old and married EVEN THOUGH he just asked Mrs. Weston to dance so he's obviously snubbing Harriet specifically and she's just been publicly humiliated at this event which is comprised of people in a higher station than she is and she's already in such a precarious social position and--

mahito: why doesn't Harriet just kill Mr. Elton

me: BECAUSE

#I love the idea of watching horror movies with mahito for obvious reasons #but like #I wanna watch other stuff with him too #HE WOULD LIKE IT #what if he reads the book!! and we can talk about the differences and nuances of adaptations #in between him horribly mangling people and doing unholy experiments on them that make me vomit #just couple things <33

[jackmkelly]

i can not articulate with words how much i adore jack kelly.

#newsies #newsies uk #jack kelly #specifically Michaels jack #but really Just Jack #i love that little guy #my bubba :( #i have so many different versions of him in my head #between hard promises the book the movie the stage show and all the actors who have played him . there is a lot #i just think he’s genuinely such a Good character #hes been through soooo much

[deepfriedcacti]

i had my friend/beta reader proofread an essay i wrote and he said it reads like a fanfiction. what does that even mean.

#how does the differences between the count of monte cristo book and movie read as fanfic. #fanfiction #fanfic #the count of monte cristo #archive of our own #...i need a new beta reader i think. /j

[irenespring]

As I make progress on my Hilson hs reunion fic (6500 words and counting!), I am also beset by ideas for a House MD School for Good and Evil AU. So far I am leaning towards the second option I previously laid out, where House is sorted into Evil and Wilson is sorted into Good.

Although the option of doing the reverse is interesting, I think exploring how the School for Good (which lures people in with promises of love and acceptance and then turns around and kills its gay students, and forces all students to conform to a perfect, smiling rigidity under pain of death) is actually more evil than the School for Evil (which pretends to torture its students but often encourages them to look outside the norm, and teaches discarded kids to fend for themselves in a world bent on killing them) is more interesting. So while Wilson is driven deeper and deeper into a pit of having to conform and smile unless he dies (representative of some of his canon mental health struggles)--- House comparatively thrives when given attention, guidance, and scary magic. An example of how this works is that House's father was sorted into, and did well in, the School for Good.

This also sets up a possible dramatic payoff where House chooses to give up the School for Evil to help Wilson escape, in order to pursue a life with Wilson as perpetual outsiders (similarly to how he in canon gives up his career for Wilson).

Also I think Student!House and Lady Lesso would be excellent foils for each other, as they are remarkably similar characters in many ways, and would make for interesting kindred spirits. Similarly, Dovey and Student!Wilson could be interesting foils, with Dovey as a repressed probably gay character who chooses to perpetuate systemic violence against queer people, and Wilson as a repressed gay character who chooses to risk his life to survive as he is.

This could be really fun, guys.

#house md #hatecrimes md #fanfiction #gregory house #james wilson #hilson #school for good and evil #lady lesso #clarissa dovey #A big difference between the SGE book and movie is the treatment of queer students #In the book amab and afab people must present as they are assigned and must take a partner of the opposite gender to the mandatory Ball #Anyone who fails to do this basically dies (has their humanity systematically stripped from them) #Especially afab people who are instantly made into magic wolf slaves #I wish I was kidding #So a queer student's options were closet or death for 200 years in book canon #They conveniently left this out in the movie mainly because I'm 98% sure the author only accidentally put it in in the first place #Whereas Evil is like “we don't care what you do as long as you make it a problem for Good”

[if-only-we-could-read-it]

I recently rewatched jurassic park and decided to read the books for the first time, and theyre actually so good

#i was nervois because sometimes older books wth such a huge movie fanbase wind up being totally different to the movie #in a way thats kind of disappointing if you liked the movie #but while it has flawed (ellie sattler and ellie sattlers legs are basically two different characters lmao) its actually really well written #and toes the line between sciencey and fun really well. it also explains a lot of the science very well which i appreciate #i havent even got to the actual dinosaur attacks yet (ive just stopped right as they break down in front of the trex cage lmao) and im like. #96 pages in. to a 216 page book. so hypothetically the pacing could be faster but it doesnt feel SLOW at all #anyway. so far would recommend