This month our book club met Thursday March 8th & we all watched previews for the movie & bought tickets online to go & see it with each other. Only 3 of us ended up showing up to watch it together. The others broke off & watched it on their own. But the group was very split after I talked with everyone. Half really liked the book & the other half really liked the movie. Personally I liked the movie better. The movie made the story easier to understand & visualize.
These were some of the major differences that were noticed by the group & myself:
Meg is in jr high in the movie but in high school in the book
Meg's mom is slightly different in the movie although she fits in with everyone else pretty well. In the book she is described as having red hair. This may also be because the family in the book is white & in the movie they are mixed.
In the movie the twins do not exist, only Meg & Charles Wallace. Overall the story wasn't any different without them. One thing someone mentioned in our group was that the twins have their own story/book later on so now that they are not there the story changes for future movies.
The Mrs. in the movie were slightly different than in the book. Mrs. Whatsit (Reese Witherspoon) was beautiful! In the book she is more like an old hag covered in layers of scarves & hats. She was just a little bit off like she is in the book. Then Mrs. Who (Mindy Kaling) was very accurate compared to the book. Finally Mrs. Which (Oprah) was supposed to have a studder but she obviously did not. I could never picture Oprah with a studder.
When the group makes their first tesser onto Uriel the scenery is just as beautiful as I expected. But when Mrs. Whatsit transforms & takes the kids up the mountain to see the black thing she is not a horse type creature but a pretty leaf animal. I think that really fit better with the scenery than a horse would have.
Their next stop is Orion where they get to visit the Happy Medium. This portion of the movie was rather important in Meg finding herself & learning how to help. The Happy Medium is played by Zach Galifianakis, in the book the Medium is a girl.
When the kids get to Camazotz the scenery is quite different from the book. In the book they go all over a dark & disgusting city to get to a building that is the Central Central Intelligence Office. In the movie they go through a few different scenes including a field, a storm, & a beach. Then they meet the man with the red eyes. In the movie it is the same as the book where Charles Wallace is taken over by IT & they find Megs father. But in the movie when Meg''s father tesser's them all away Meg is stuck behind with Charles Wallace & she saves him.
In the movie Meg has the ability to tesser herself away from the direction the group is going. She does that twice throughout the movie. Once when they go to Camazotz & once again with Charles Wallace.
There is no Aunt Beast in the movie. I think the whole scene was too weird to put into film.
Both of the stories end with the group safely back home & happily ever after.
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Our book next month is Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie. The meeting will be April 12th @ 6 p.m.
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