The book, The Last of the Mohicans, by James Fennimore Cooper was occasionally a bit tedious and difficult to follow due to the elaborate descriptions and the slow action. The movie was a bit awkward to watch, especially because it is so different from the book. There were some similarities but the differences left me shook. These differences include things such as the movie killing off characters that didn’t die in the novel. The movie removes rivalry’s and conflict between the characters that were clearly depicted in the book. Not only that but the movie butchered Cooper’s theme of adventure and twisted it to be romantic. So, what the fuck just happened?
Before I go off on a tangent about the differences between the book and the novel, can I just mention how badass Hawkeye is? His abilitiy to do pretty much anything is one aspect of the book that the movie maintained. Although all his feats from the movie don’t necessarily happen in the book, including jumping into a huge waterfall and surviving, fighting off any Indian that
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The movie fails to follow the book at all. At the beginning, there were only minor differences, however, as the movie progressed things became more and more fucked and took a completely different path than the novel. I suppose the filmmakers felt the need to change the plot of the movie because it was “boring” and didn’t have enough romance in it. The characters were changed for this purpose as well. When I read the book, I imagined Hawkeye as a middle-aged, weathered, gruff man, but in the movie, he is portrayed as a young, noble, and romantic guy. Also, the Indians who are key to the book because they and Hawkeye save the settlers multiple times, are not especially important to the plot of the movie, except for Uncas is Alice’s love interest. The last of the Mohicans is not even mentioned until the final scene of the movie even though it is the