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The Book

posted 8 years ago by litlbit2001
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The book actually has the mother of Cody die at the end. I'm glad that they changed it for the movie. There are other great scenes that should of been in the movie. Like the nanny that Eric has for Cody. Jenna dies and seeks revenge against the demon nanny, I guess she goes after her sister or something. I got and read the book before I saw the movie like many other times and I have to say that reading the book first and then seeing the movie, you kind of remember the scenes that were in the book that might of made the movie a better the movie.

Dad wants us to start where he left off. Saving people,Hunting things,the family business.

[–] dysartmanach 8 years ago

I must've read the book 5 times. One of my all time favorites. Tragic what they made of it in the film.

[–] TMC-4 (19453) 6 years ago

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/film/081100bless-film-review.html

The screenwriters, Tom Rickman, Clifford Green and Ellen Green, have carved away all the surplus plot of Cathy Cash Spellman's novel, a potboiler crammed with incident: a custody battle from beyond the grave, with trips to Egypt and great, musty tombs.

Mr. Russell and the writers have also pared away the doom patrol Maggie assembled in the novel to fight the forces of evil for Cody. Her ally in the film is an F.B.I. agent, John Travis (Jimmy Smits), a former seminary student who is also an expert in santería (to whose forces Mr. Smits succumbed in "The Believers," another mediocre picture about Satan in New York).