I don't remember this movie (saw it once in the theaters) but I'd recommend just reading the book for yourself. For one thing, it's not that long at all. It was written for the author's sons, iirc. It's not the easiest book to read, as the dialogue is extremely realistic, ornate, and uses many uncommon words...
but that's what makes it one of the greatest pirate stories told.
Quite a bit actually. It's not so much an adaptation as an endless stream of easter eggs for the book.
"I said no camels, that's five camels, can't you count?"
Very actually. Like almost shockingly so given the kinds of liberties Disney movies usually take with the original stories. It loses a few memorable elements like the character of Blind Pew and the black spot superstition but really almost everything that happens in the movie has a direct analog in the original book and the story beats are almost to the letter from the book.
shareInteresting...what about Jim's relationship with Silver? Is it as well developed in the book as the movie?
shareExactly HOW paternal the two are can be open to interpretation, and honestly it's been so long since I read the original book that I don't know how much various adaptations are clouding my memory on that. But to my memory it's pretty much the same: Silver is using Jim but also cares for him and those two things are in conflict to some extent.
shareIt's like A Christmas Carol. It's not the type of story that really can't stray far from the book because it's such an easy story to reproduce. I grew up with the book and every version of the story ever put on film. They're all the same, but they're all good
shareIn a way close but...the original wasnt set in space :P
shareIt follows the book somewhat faithfully (with most of the significant differences being character-based) up until the mutiny. After that it deviates quite a lot:
Ben brings the captain's group (Jim, the the captain and the doctor) back to his place, whereas in the book they occupied a stockade, and with the exception of Jim didn't even meet Ben until later on.
Although there is a very brief battle at Ben's place, roughly approximating the battle at the stockade in the book, the non-mutineers don't abandon it after striking a deal with Silver. Instead, when Jim returns from the ship, he is captured by Silver along with the captain and the doctor. This is when things really start to deviate.
It turns out Ben hasn't dug up and secretly hidden the treasure, which in the book led to a confrontation between Silver and his men when they find nothing where the treasure should be, and then the intervention of the remainder of the captain's group killing several of them and scattering the rest. Instead Jim straight up leads the pirates to the treasure cache with his map, and there's a brief moment of triumph for the pirate crew until Flint's booby trap goes off and everything goes awry leading to the big explodey climax of the film - obviously totally different to the book. (Also, as an aside, Flint's skeleton is found with the treasure, whereas in the book he died off-island)
Really, really not. Which is a shame. All the changes take away from it.
________
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-21AtiWV3TE