I'm just reading this book, and came on to see who played whom in the film (I haven't seen it yet)I can't see any mention of Melony in the cast....am I going senile and missed her,or is her character cut from the film version? Seems odd as she's such a pivotal character in the book.
shareWell, I've just skipped through some older messages, and have discovered that Melony was cut....must see the film as I just can't visualise the story without her!
shareMelony was just way too much of a bad@$$ for Hollywood, haha. They take a few of the less hardcore lines and qualities of Melony and and implant them in Mary Agnes (who you may remember from the book) and Buster (who the movie made up in order to replace Melony as a person Homer can talk to). The movie, like most scripts taking from a novel, leaves a lot of details out and takes place over a year rather than twenty (or however many years the novel goes through), but the movie does a pretty good job of keeping the same theme, it just isn't nearly as powerful.
If I hadn't read the book before the movie, I may have enjoyed it a lot more (although I was able to put pieces together they skipped in the movie), but the discrepancies, although understandable, irritated me (ex. Candy is just as beautiful if not more so than I pictured her in the book, but her character is pretty lame in the movie).
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Well, to do Melony's story justice, you'd have to dedicate a considerable chunk of screen time to her, which would have taken the focus away from Homer a bit. But then again, her character was a bit risque anyway lol. I wish they'd left the name as Melony though instead of changing it to Mary Agnes, who was a totally different character in the book.
shareI read the book after seeing the movie, and I, too, was disappointed with the nixing of Melony *sigh*. Although her character was risqué, so was a lot of the rest of the book inaccurately portrayed in the film including Dr. Larch being in love with Homer (and not just in the fatherly sense), Homer having been adopted a couple of times before making St. Cloud's his "final" home, and quite a bit more.
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I never got that Dr. Larch had sexual feelings towards Homer in the book, I just thought that evil little wench from the board said he was gay because he wasn't married and she wanted to discredit him. With that said Dr. Larch certainly never had the feelings for Nurse Edna the movie led you to believe he had (but Hollywood always has to make up romances).
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