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  • No, he was disappointed that he didn't get royalties off the story! If he had become a 'real boy' maybe he would have!
  • I don't know why, but Hollywood writers / producers / directors / whatever seem to believe that when creating a movie based on a book that they ABSOLUTELY MUST MAKE MAJOR CHANGES to the story. It doesn't matter how popular or famous or lucrative the story is as-is, it seems that they MUST make MAJOR changes to it (typically making the story MUCH less enjoyable and probably also MUCH less lucrative). Pick any movie based on a book: they've trashed the story that's in the book. There's only ONE movie I EVER recall seeing that "stuck to the book", although to be fair some movies (like "The Ten Commandments", for example) are based on a relatively unknown book that fictionalizes the well-known source book (that movie, for example, was based on the book "Prince of Egypt", which book fictionalizes the Bible account of Moses) and maybe those sorts of movies stick pretty close to the fictionalized book without me realizing it since I'm comparing to the well-known original source instead.
    • Linda Joy
      I agree! They ruined Game of Thrones putting it on tv. And The Bourne series was written during the Vietnam War era, if I'm remembering correctly.
    • www.bible-reviews.com
      Other than "The Gospel of John" (which sticks to the book word-for-word), and certain classic Disney cartoons, I can't think of a single book-based movie that doesn't make terrible changes to the book story. Even the hugely successful movies. Lord of the Rings (Merry and Pippin characters, for example). Ten Commandments (compared to the Bible - what's all this malarky about Moses being in line for the throne and trying to romance Pharaoh's daughter? Why isn't Aaron parlaying with Pharaoh? etc.) And don't even ask me about the horrible things they did to the wonderful series of stories in "I, Robot".

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