I love to read and I love to see how the movie of a book I cherished comes out. While the book is almost always better, I'm normally satisfied with how things turn out. Rarely am I left angry because they changed it so terribly (Other Boleyn Girl, I'm looking at you).
Safe Haven of course changed some things but nothing that messed with the overall plot too much. They simply took out small details that would have made it a richer a movie.
SPOILERS
The main change is how she gets away. Granted you figure out the whole story through a series of flashbacks but they changed the frequency and details of them.
MOVIE: Katie is running away from a struggle that just happened where she stabs her abusive drunk husband and runs for her life. She runs to a strangers house and asks for quick refuge. She then cuts and dyes her hair and goes to the bus stop in a panic. Kevin is using his police privileges to search the buses for her and barely misses the bus she is on. She then stops in a small town and decides to live there.
BOOK: Katie plots and waits her escape to every last detail. She takes the smallest amount of change out of her husband's wallet. She buys a prepaid phone and sets the house phone to forward calls to the cell phone, testing it to make sure there is no noise when it forwards the call. She sneaks over to the neighbors house often and they are not strangers but close friends. She conveniently looks like their deceased daughter and she takes her information so she can use her ID so Kevin will have an even harder time finding her.
There are other changes but overall I loved both the book and the movie. Nicholas Sparks knows how to tug on the hearts strings and make you cry at least once by the end of the story.
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Friday, July 5, 2013
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Monsters University
I went and saw Monsters University with my friends Leah and Krysten, Krysten's boyfriend David, and my boyfriend Allen. We enjoyed it!
Every Pixar movie starts with a short film and while the girls thought the story of two umbrellas falling in love and watching other inanimate objects smile and help them was adorable the boys were not amused. They thought it was stupid and a waste of animation.
The actual movie though was great! We laughed and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. It was great to see how different character relationships formed and what younger Mike and Sully were like.
SPOILER ALERT
If you haven't seen it and hate spoilers stop here.
I was shocked and delighted to see that after cheating on the final exam Mike and Sully were expelled and did not magically find a special loop hole to get back in. They simply do not graduate college. I'm not happy that they failed but I was shocked. Most children movies have a happy ending and the ending is happy but not the way I expected. Instead of graduating and getting their dream jobs, Mike and Sully go to Monsters Inc. and start from the bottom until they get to the jobs they have when we watched them the first time. They go and start out in the mailroom and over the years they move up to a higher level until they reach the status of Scarer and Scream Tank monitor. They rough it and don't give up. They don't get the dream career simply handed to them, they work for it and never lose sight of their dreams.
That is an idea of life I feel people are starting to forget. No one wants to do the crappy job, instead they expect to start higher and higher simply because they went to school. And we look down on those who don't go to school. I myself am guilty of this, I judged one of my best friends for not going and we are no longer friends now. There is nothing wrong with entering the workforce right out of high school. College isn't for everyone and that's ok. As long as you work hard and can support yourself then you don't need a fancy degree. If you want a career where school is required like a doctor than by all means go to school. I'm not saying college is pointless but I am saying it is ok to admit that it isn't for everyone and there's no shame in that.
Every Pixar movie starts with a short film and while the girls thought the story of two umbrellas falling in love and watching other inanimate objects smile and help them was adorable the boys were not amused. They thought it was stupid and a waste of animation.
The actual movie though was great! We laughed and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. It was great to see how different character relationships formed and what younger Mike and Sully were like.
SPOILER ALERT
If you haven't seen it and hate spoilers stop here.
I was shocked and delighted to see that after cheating on the final exam Mike and Sully were expelled and did not magically find a special loop hole to get back in. They simply do not graduate college. I'm not happy that they failed but I was shocked. Most children movies have a happy ending and the ending is happy but not the way I expected. Instead of graduating and getting their dream jobs, Mike and Sully go to Monsters Inc. and start from the bottom until they get to the jobs they have when we watched them the first time. They go and start out in the mailroom and over the years they move up to a higher level until they reach the status of Scarer and Scream Tank monitor. They rough it and don't give up. They don't get the dream career simply handed to them, they work for it and never lose sight of their dreams.
That is an idea of life I feel people are starting to forget. No one wants to do the crappy job, instead they expect to start higher and higher simply because they went to school. And we look down on those who don't go to school. I myself am guilty of this, I judged one of my best friends for not going and we are no longer friends now. There is nothing wrong with entering the workforce right out of high school. College isn't for everyone and that's ok. As long as you work hard and can support yourself then you don't need a fancy degree. If you want a career where school is required like a doctor than by all means go to school. I'm not saying college is pointless but I am saying it is ok to admit that it isn't for everyone and there's no shame in that.
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