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The Reckoning: the Ugly Concluded

posted 19 years ago by BoyScoutKevin
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Sites change in size. The town is apparently much larger in the book, than it is in the film.

And they change in location. The castle is some distance from the town in the book, but it is right next to the town and looms over it, in the the film.

The characters change in age and appearance. The corpulent, older King's Justice of the book, becomes a middle-aged, more muscular King's Justice in the film.

And the reverse is also true. The preteen 12-year-old Thomas Wells of the book, becomes a teenager in the film.

[–] trees345 19 years ago

ur such a dork. do u realize like 95 percent of these threads are filled with you.

[–] grenier_liliane 18 years ago

Well, I for one, appreciate your observations.:) I agree with most of them. I read the book after I had seen the movie...so it was surprising to get a somewhat happy ending in the book universe. (Wich I much prefer, although Paul Bettany made a good job of his final scene.)

[–] Rackon 17 years ago

...what?

Filmmakers often change things in adpatations of books. The castle was moved and the village made smaller I'm sure for reasons of budget, but it also works well as a thematic device with it looming over the village...either type of seting would have been possible back in the day.

I, for one, am happy to trade the fat old King's Justice of the book for the gorgeous and prefectly wonderful (though still pragmatic and cynical) Matthew Macfdayen in the film. And how old are you, lol, to call the 28 year old Macfadyen "middle aged"?

I suspect the fimmakers decided not to focus on a young child victim for several good reason.