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The Giver: Comparing The Book To The Movie

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The saying “never judge a book by its movie” should definitely apply to The Giver. When comparing the differences between The Giver book and movie, the movie was an utter disappointment. All in all, I saw several book to movie changes. All of these detrimental changes that were made to the movie negatively transformed my view of The Giver. Some changes that stuck out to me while watching the movie were a lack of an exposition, bad dialogue, not clear relationships, and added cheesy romance. Overall, most of these changes were made to target teen audience. Because of this, they wanted to get the plot moving quicker to keep the attention span of younger, teenage viewers.

A main difference I saw while comparing the book and movie was the change in the plot format. In the book, there was a really nice plot with an exposition that ran nicely into the climax. However, in the movie they completely got rid …show more content…

In The Giver book, there was meaningful dialogue between characters, creating a depth in the understanding of character relationships. However, because The Giver movie had a lack of dialogue between the characters, character relationships were not established. This made the character relationships in the movie a complete, confusing mess. For example, when Jonas assaults or “kisses” Fiona, it is a very confusing scene because you aren’t sure if Fiona only feels this way towards Jonas because she actually likes Jonas or if it’s because she didn’t take her medication this morning, so her hormones are off. If there was more meaningful dialogue between characters, we would’ve had a deeper understanding of each character relationship. This would help the viewers figure out what was actually going on in many scenes. Once again, I feel as if the creators of The Giver movie made these changes in order to target younger viewers who couldn’t care less about meaningful

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