I really do not like being a drama queen, but I'm gonna make no bones about by discontent.
First and foremost, I'm speaking on behalf of all those who read the book beforehand.
The book was completely underwhelming, a huge let-down, a total fiasco. It doesn't live up to the book's reputation at all. The characters are clumsily portrayed, to begin with. On account of the Unskillful actors (except some of them) for one, and because the story not only was truncated excruciatingly short (that could be a good thing in some cases, but in this one, believe me , it is not), but a great deal of key moments were altered, which can't be but a shortcoming, at least for the readers.
Some of us, the readers, resolve to watch the movie, if there is an adaptation, after liking the book. One of the chief reasons being to see how the way we imagined the characters contrast with the way they are enacted in the movie. And there is a huge difference.
Because Beverly sounded a lot more beautiful in the book, and in the movie, while in her childhood, she is , well... not so much so. Ben was described as quite fatter and shier and here he was all cool smiles, ballsy and stuffed with innuendos. Stuttering Bill - same situation. In the book he is , at adulthood, BALD. and he has reddish hair, the same way as Beverly should be an auburn-haired chick and she isn't. All of them are more or less messed up in comparison with what the book's describes them to be like.
Also, the movies seemed to me as really , really fast-paced and an outsider could hardly make sense of the events.
I didn't see the whole movie, because ,Like I said, I was nothing but struck dumb by the movie's incapability to rise up to the mark. An because the book's finale was as well a bit anticlimactic. But that's a whole other story.
Long story short, readers of the book, beware of this smoke-and- mirrors thing. It is nothing to it, really. If you want to see something else and not a time-waster, a warm recommendation would be Psycho (yep, the 1960 black and white,antediluvian thing).
First and foremost, I'm speaking on behalf of all those who read the book beforehand.
The book was completely underwhelming, a huge let-down, a total fiasco. It doesn't live up to the book's reputation at all. The characters are clumsily portrayed, to begin with. On account of the Unskillful actors (except some of them) for one, and because the story not only was truncated excruciatingly short (that could be a good thing in some cases, but in this one, believe me , it is not), but a great deal of key moments were altered, which can't be but a shortcoming, at least for the readers.
Some of us, the readers, resolve to watch the movie, if there is an adaptation, after liking the book. One of the chief reasons being to see how the way we imagined the characters contrast with the way they are enacted in the movie. And there is a huge difference.
Because Beverly sounded a lot more beautiful in the book, and in the movie, while in her childhood, she is , well... not so much so. Ben was described as quite fatter and shier and here he was all cool smiles, ballsy and stuffed with innuendos. Stuttering Bill - same situation. In the book he is , at adulthood, BALD. and he has reddish hair, the same way as Beverly should be an auburn-haired chick and she isn't. All of them are more or less messed up in comparison with what the book's describes them to be like.
Also, the movies seemed to me as really , really fast-paced and an outsider could hardly make sense of the events.
I didn't see the whole movie, because ,Like I said, I was nothing but struck dumb by the movie's incapability to rise up to the mark. An because the book's finale was as well a bit anticlimactic. But that's a whole other story.
Long story short, readers of the book, beware of this smoke-and- mirrors thing. It is nothing to it, really. If you want to see something else and not a time-waster, a warm recommendation would be Psycho (yep, the 1960 black and white,antediluvian thing).