Pretty dishonest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty3-8cn_Bs8
I wonder how many people went to see it and were shocked by the switcheroo.
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It's not surprising that they didn't mention that subplot, because they emphasized the romantic plot - of Tobey Maguire and Charlize Theron hooking up. I recall John Irving writing that he feared that the film-makers would emphasize that aspect in the marketing campaign; that is exactly what they did, of course.
shareYeah, the way Hollywood treats novels it acquires was memorably lampooned in the TV show Californication, whose central character writes an award-winning novel called God Hates Us All, which is optioned by Hollywood into a rom-com called Crazy Little Thing Called Love. (In a case of life imitating art, many people don't realize that the movie Girl with a Dragon Tattoo was adapted from a book whose original Swedish title translates to Men Who Hate Women, and it seems unlikely the very feminist author would have approved of the "Girl" title if he had still been alive.)
But getting back to this movie, I don't understand what the film's marketers thought was going to happen when audiences went to the theatre and unexpectedly found a heavy abortion plot running through the whole movie. That doesn't seem like a great way to build positive word of mouth. Even people who are moderately pro-choice are likely to be annoyed, I'd think.
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