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<blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 6211366" data-attributes="member: 32740"><p>It was immediately apparant that the book must have been cut pretty heavily to fit it into a standard length movie, and also that there were almost certainly a lot of scenes left on the cutting room floor (which we'll probably see in a Special Edition or Directors Cut DVD release) even after the screenplay had shaved and compressed. No Oscars for adapted screenplay here to be sure.</p><p></p><p>I thought the main character was adequately written and performed but the climax of the movie wasn't handled as well as it should have been. It definitely needed more of an emotional payoff and just didn't have it - the result of either screenplay or editing room cuts in all likelihood. The denouement held no emotional impact for me at all because the climax actually played too much like a non-event. [spoiler]Going into the final battle we are given too few clues that it's a real battle and NOT just a test. This severely diminishes the impact of the twist that it was really happening and that he had just orchestrated a genocide. That's just the trap of so many adaptations - in movies you have to SHOW on screen what a book would be able to spend entire chapters on internal doubts and struggles and set you up properly for the big reveal.[/spoiler]</p><p></p><p>It was an okay movie. Not great, but it made sense to me and <em>basically </em>worked as it should.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Man in the Funny Hat, post: 6211366, member: 32740"] It was immediately apparant that the book must have been cut pretty heavily to fit it into a standard length movie, and also that there were almost certainly a lot of scenes left on the cutting room floor (which we'll probably see in a Special Edition or Directors Cut DVD release) even after the screenplay had shaved and compressed. No Oscars for adapted screenplay here to be sure. I thought the main character was adequately written and performed but the climax of the movie wasn't handled as well as it should have been. It definitely needed more of an emotional payoff and just didn't have it - the result of either screenplay or editing room cuts in all likelihood. The denouement held no emotional impact for me at all because the climax actually played too much like a non-event. [spoiler]Going into the final battle we are given too few clues that it's a real battle and NOT just a test. This severely diminishes the impact of the twist that it was really happening and that he had just orchestrated a genocide. That's just the trap of so many adaptations - in movies you have to SHOW on screen what a book would be able to spend entire chapters on internal doubts and struggles and set you up properly for the big reveal.[/spoiler] It was an okay movie. Not great, but it made sense to me and [I]basically [/I]worked as it should. [/QUOTE]
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