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I can barely watch it....

posted 18 years ago by kei8ht
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I just read this book about a week ago and decided to watch the movie again which I haven't seen in a very long time. I can't even get through it, it is so unlike the book! There are so many jumbled parts, weird things added in, and Pollyanna's personality is COMPLETELY different!! Examples: she doesn't say a word the whole car ride home, stands there when meeting Aunt Polly (in the book Aunt Polly doesn't even get a look at Pollyanna before she is hanging around her neck!), and what was with her treatment of Jimmy Bean??? "Go away from me little boy!"?? Please!! In the book she was trying to get him to talk to her!!!

Now I KNOW that when you make a movie out of a book you have to cut things and some things do need to change, but whoooaaaa.... you would think the scriptwriters read Cliffs notes!
Are there any book lovers out there that are just as appalled as I am???

[–] bpardee-1 8 years ago

It's a movie. It's not the book. No one ever said it was the book. The idea for the movie was from the book. They are not required to make a movie exactly like the book. Enjoy the movie for what it is and the same goes for the book.

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