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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HRSegovia" data-source="post: 6053585" data-attributes="member: 99950">It is, however, an integral part of who he is and how he learned humility.  I understand the process of adaptation and how a film adaptation is never like the book (even certain liberties are taken), but changing the pronunciation has a certain sense of "wrongness," almost blatant defiance.  What harm would it have done to pronounce it correctly and keep that element of the character?  I'm not implying they should have stuck with calling him pissing, but Pea rather than Pie.It seems petty - I know - but simple things like the pronunciation of the protagonist's name are what make the books personal.  What good is a book if you can't identify with, and sympathize with, the characters?  So, of course, maintaining the pronunciation of the name is an important part of the story.</blockquote>