Anyone read the book, was thinking about borrowing a copy from the library. I've read reviews about the book, people saying the characters are unlikable but that's fair given that they real people.
Do you think the movie will play down the unlikability of the characters, or keep them as they are in the books.
They will probably play them as a mix of likeable and unlikeable. If characters have uniformly no redeeming qualities, the movie will be almost unwatchable. I remember a tv show my mother, who had dementia, used to watch over and over, Reba, starring Reba McIntyre. That show was totally awful, because the writers didn't give their characters anything to make them sympathetic. They uniformly were portrayed as having not one redeeming quality. Except for Reba, who is a decent actress. Show lasted 2 seasons.
It surely depends on how skillful the writers are in creating sympathy for these people.
It's not the best written book in the world but it gives a good insight into the trip they went on and what went wrong.
Sarah
www.dan-radcliffe.co.uk
I didn't finish the book because I wanted to be surprised by the movie. But I read about half of it and the characters weren't unsympathetic but you had that thing going on where when you spend a lot of time with people in bad circumstances, everyone starts to get irritated with even well intentioned acts. The traits of your friends that you can overlook when you only spend a few hours with them become unbearable on a trip for instance! From the book, I felt that Ghinsberg was really a blank slate that could really be developed later in the book or in the movie.
shareAgreed! I love my friends, but if I had to live with some of them....!!!!
shareI really liked it. Would NEVER want to be in his situation.
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