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The BFG is definitely in the medium category. It keeps the general storyline and certain details, but also adds senses and characters that weren't in the book. Such as when BFG first takes Sophie to his home in giant country he gives her a nightmare so she doesn't run away. This is added for dramatic effect I think and to tye in a posthumous character that defiantly wasn't in the books. There are some other added senses like where the other giants are playing with cars and poor Sophie is in one. The ending and what happens to the other giants is altered as well as where Sophie and BFG live. The other giants in the book are dropped in a pit in England and only fed from a patch of "Snozzcumbers". The book even says that officials had to put a sign up saying "Don't feed the giants!" after some drunk men fall in on accident. I think that the men Sophie yells at in the first part of the movie are a nod towards those men who fell in the hole. In the book...

How to Train Your Dragon movie is a classic example of the Major category. There are Vikings, there are dragons and that's about where the similarities end. Don't get me wrong I love the movies, but I think I love the books just a little bit more ( I'm a bookworm, can't help it). Other differences: Toothless: Movie, Dark, large, and mysterious "night fury". Books, small, green, and mischievous. Snotlout is Hiccup's cousin is the books. Astrid in the main girl protagonist in the movie seems based off of Camicazi, a clever if not too boastful heir to the big burgler tribe. Here's the big difference int the books dragons are everywhere, with all sizes, and they are the quite literal slaves to the Vikings. Hiccup can speak to dragons in Dragonese and wants to convince the tribes of the archipelago to free the dragons (and some human slaves of a certain uncouth tribe). I could keep going, but the differences are too many for just one review. Some im...

I'm going to start with the first (and in my opinion the best) of the Chronicles of Narnia movies. In The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe very few changes were made, something I value highly. The scene where the Pevensie children follow the robin through the woods to Mr. Beaver was so greatly shortened that in the movie the kids simply hear the robin, step outside of Mr. Tumnus's house and run into Mr. Beaver. This eliminates a conversation between Peter and Edmund which has Ed putting doubts of the Narnians into Pete's mind. In the story the conversation's point was to show how Edmund was already going to betray his siblings. In the movie though I think the acting of Skander Keynes, and dialogue show this well enough without the long trek and conversation. Other details omitted for time were the three maid servants that worked in the Professor's house, they did little past the first chapter, and that the house was toured frequently. In fact Mrs. Macready is leadi...

Welcome to Pen to Film! This blog is, as the name suggests, about book to movie adaptations. While each post will independently go over the pros and cons of each adaption, a scale will be used so that at a glance you can tell how close the film is to the book. Major: This is the most disappointing kind of adaption for a bookworm. Perhaps it's a great movie, but it seems the screenwriters took the characters names and the setting then threw out the rest. Major plots are different, characters are added and/or subtracted, bottom line you can barely recognize the book it came from. Medium: This is the movie that does a few changes here and there. They might add/subtract some important plot points/characters, but for the most part you can really see the story it came from. Minor: This is the gold of book to movie adaptations. Little to no changes have been made and if any it's only rearranging/subtracting scences to fit movie formats. Consider yourself lucky if your favorite bo...