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Diffrences between Book and Movie


I'm a person who likes spoilers so if someone could tell me the diffrences between the book and the movie that would be great.

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Well, a few characters were either dropped or combined.
The Allertons were dropped altogether and it's Miss van Schuyler who takes Linnet's pearls instead of Tim Allerton, who took and replaced them. Signor Richetti, James Fanthorp, and Cornelia Robson were also dropped, though I heard that a bit of Cornelia was written into Ms. Bowers. Because of these deletions, different characters do what the deleted characters did in the book. Rosalie Otterbourne witnesses Simon's "shooting", not Cornelia, and it is Ferguson who falls in love with her, not Tim Allerton. Fanthorp's role in investigating Pennington's embezzlement is given to Colonel Race.

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Movie!Ferguson is still a Marxist, and occasionally quite arrogant, but seems to have a good heart beneath it all.

Book!Ferguson is utterly obnoxious, coldhearted, and nasty. He brushes off Mrs. Otterbourne's death, for example, dismissing her as a "useless fool" without considering the heartbreak of her daughter and the hardship Rosalie's gone through. The irony at the center of his character is that he talks of a better society, but doesn't really seem to give much of a damn about PEOPLE--about the individuals who'd make up that society. (Or, to paraphrase the song "Easy To Be Hard", cares more for the "bleeding crowd" than for a "needing friend.")

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Basically, the book has many more characters than are in the movie. In my opinion, the book is extremely tedious to read, whereas the movie is great fun from start to finish.

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There are several more characters in the book. One of the main changes in the character of Linnet - they have made her a lot more obnoxious in the film than she is in the book.

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hahaha I had the same exact comment

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