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What Fiamma did... (Book and Movie)

posted 13 years ago by coleburg83
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The whole situation seems so confusing. She's begging her father to come and get her while at the same time she is still trying to write to Pablo. Which means that she intends to run away again back in Spain? If that's the case, then why wouldn't she have run away as soon as she got there? It wasn't secure, she could have left.

Fiamma really doesn't seem like the type that would leave everything she had to be some dirty peasant housewife. What were the circumstances around her "failed elopement" in the book? Did she regret it or was she still trying to foolishly contact him and would run away again?

I'm surprised her father even wrote her or sent her anything really. Based upon the time period and especially the division in pre-Civil War Spain.

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[–] Lizzard420 11 years ago

Fiamma's character was quite different in the novel than in the film. In the book Fiamma is blonde and an Italian princess. The subplot involving her running away with some guy is completely absent. She is overly attached to her father and is not used to being without him, as it had only been him, her and their servants all her life. I feel that they probably added the subplot involving Pablo to add some realism to the age change they needed to do for the film. In the book the girls were much younger (about 11 - 14 range), obviously given the subject matter this would not have translated well into film, so they changed the ages to 16- 18 and added more age appropriate issues to the plot.

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