Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Divergent- Movie vs. Book

Are you all enjoying spring break? I sure am! I went to Nashville and I got to see the movie "Divergent" with one of my besties (I promise I will limit my use of that word :3). I've spent the past couple of hours in the car re-reading the book. I must admit that the movie was pretty darn close to the book. Here are a couple of things that I noticed were different:


  1. Four is supposed to be 18 in the book; Theo James is 28. Apparently the producers were shooting for 24. I guess they couldn't have actors who were too inexperienced...
  2. Uriah! He's not in the movie! WHAT?!
  3. Peter is ruthless in the books; Peter is rude and cruel, but not quite ruthless in the movie.
Overall, the movie was a really great supplement to the book. I think that it wouldn't be necessary to have read the book to understand much of the movie, so I'd definitely recommend the movie to dystopian-city-lovers.

(Connections: Text-to-Film)
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3 comments:

  1. UnknownMay 16, 2014 at 1:08 AM

    I have read and seen the movie for this book and it was really good! Hope you enjoyed it!

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  2. UnknownMay 18, 2014 at 3:46 PM

    Really good job with noticing the differences. I haven't read Divergent, but I've read Catching Fire and also noticed the differences right away! I really wish they would have added them too because they played a big role in the book:( Great observations!

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  3. UnknownMay 24, 2014 at 6:34 AM

    I like this blog post. You accurately explained the difference between the film and the movie. This is very true; films are almost never lined up completely with the books they spin off of.

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