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Compare And Contrast The 5th Wave
Have you ever read a book, and then they were going to make it into a movie? This happens many times, it is one way to get inspiration for the movie process. The trouble is, they don’t always transfer the same over to the big screen. As an audience, we tend to compare the two, and decide which one we would recommend, either the movie or the book. For the most part, the difference between the two are just minimal details that they decided were not needed. On some instances, the audience may get disappointed when they leave out details, even if they are limited. When some people read the book first, they want to rely their imagination from what they made out in their brain to their own eyes. That is difficult when they leave out parts from the …show more content…
The basic illustration of the features of characters were slightly altered. The main character, Cassie was described in the book with strawberry blonde hair. As pictured in the movie, the role played for Cassie was just blonde. Just as same as Sammy’s bear was expressed. Rick Yancey defined that his bear was old and chewed up. In the movie, the bear was in perfect shape. I know something like this might seem small to you, but when you are reading the book you instantly have a picture of what that character or objects would look like formed in your head. When the appearance of these instance’s change, it throws off the perspective for the viewer. Another difference was, when Cassie entered the camp her brother Sam was at. Everyone was mandated to go into a check-in, where they would be greeted with a doctor to implant a tracker into their neck. As constructed in the book, Cassie met a doctor named, Dr. Pam, and attacked her to get through to find her brother without the tracker. While in the movie, Cassie met Sergeant Reznik (played by Maria Bello), and killed her to get through, with no introduction of Dr. Pam at all. One of the sentimental event that changed was when Cassie realized her father was gone forever. At the camp, her family was staying at in the beginning of the book, Cassie witnessed Colonel Vosch (played by Liev Schreiber) kill her father. In the movie, Cassie does not witness the shooting at all, but does realize that all adults at the camp will be

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