When reading a book and watching a movie readers and viewers often ask themselves why did director make the changes. What is the purpose? The movie adaptation of The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey is much different from the book. The movie director has excluded some very important characters and content, along with many prominent relationships. Director Jonathan Blakeson’s justification in making all these changes was to attract a more mature audience. This was accomplished by removing the teenage romantic feel in the novel, shortening the time that five-year-old Sam spends on screen, and by reducing the emphasis placed on the significance of Ben and Ringer’s childhood games. These changes rendered the movie more interesting for a mature audience; allowing for the film to appeal to an older group of people.
The first significant way that the director creates the movie is through the elimination of teenage romance between Cassie and Evan. For example in the book Cassie and Evan have a very close relationship. Evan saves Cassie from death after a
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This is done by rushing through the movie and limiting their childish relationship to improve the movie. For example, in the book, since Ringer and Ben first met they become very close, Ben is the only person that Ringer likes, trusts and talks too. Also when their group goes on a mission to kill the Others Ringer only tells Ben how she truly feels. However, in the movie version Ringer does not trust anyone, they do not play chess together and instead of only telling Ben how she feels she tells the whole squad. Moreover, the director decides to cut out some very important details. Like removing the Wonderland program and not really emphasizing on the training in Camp Haven. This shows that the director rushes through Ringer and Ben's childish friendship to make a more engaging movie for an older