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The book vs the film

posted 15 years ago by simonsoerensen
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First i saw the film and then i read the book

I noticed a few differences

1) Billy Bright has lost a hand and is an unemployed fascist, with no importance in the firm.

2) The book is much more darker, social realistic and nasty than the film.

3) The book gives a much more deep insight in the understanding of hooliganism.

4) Tommy Johnson, is the only drugdealer in the book.

5) A defense is put up for scousers, is it really true that the italians started with stabbing with knife(It wouldn´t surprise me, italians are well known to be cowards using knives.). But i also know that the scousers started the whole "casual" clothing style.

6) Still I think the film is good, it would have been at least 3 hours if it should have followed the book, but Nick Love made a great film.

[–] ClenRen 15 years ago

I think the book sucks I wasted 14$ on it and there wasn't even Zeb or Raff.

[–] Scary_Hours 15 years ago

The book was class, the film was mediocre but not terrible.

[–] Rocky15 (509) a year ago

Apart from the title they have next to nothing in common, Bill isn’t Tommys granddad in the book, in fact they don’t even know each other as far as I recall, it’s more of a commentary on the working classes, some of Tommy’s stream of consciousness narration is a lot deeper in the book which shows how he may be held back by the class he is born into and that’s where his anger and hatred come from