Eragon, By Christopher Paolini

Eragon: The Book vs. The Movie, Different interpretations of a story
The process of changing a book into a movie is a very difficult task since everything that is appealing in a book is not necessarily going to work out great in the movie. This requires directors and writers to modify some of the story to fit nicer with the movie environment. The book Eragon, written by Christopher Paolini, is the first book of the series called inheritance cycle which consists of four books. Paolini wrote Eragon back in 2001 and a movie based on the book was made later in 2006. Although the movie is based on the book and shares a lot of similar things but it did not impress the readers, got a lot of negative feedback and it didn’t get the credit it deserved.
Removing characters is a normal thing in the movie industry since the factor of time limitations comes into the play. This movie is not an exception but some of the characters deleted can be considered pretty impactful in the novel. The character Orik, the dwarf that introduces Eragon to Tronjheim (capital city of the dwarves), has no mention in the movie. In the novel, Orik is a nice and friendly dwarf that taught Eragon a lot and is one of the only familiar faces when Eragon needed him. He gains the readers’ attention and trust which creates a link that is unquestionable. Although this secondary character is very impactful, but he is removed from the movie and it is for acceptable reasons. The novel uses Orik as a tool to introduce the reader to Tronjheim but the movie doesn’t seem to have a problem introducing to the reader without Orik and the director manages to handle this huge intro with some impressive techniques and camera shots. So having Orik as well is not going to help the movie and is just redundant. Another character that is eliminated from the movie is Jeod and his family. Jeod is a good friend of Brom and he helps the Vardans (The alliance against the king) a lot to fight against the king. Jeod isn’t as impactful as Orik is but he is still treated with decent respect amongst readers. The movie simply doesn’t see him impactful enough to be included and this decision seems to be the right decision from a neutral perspective since Jeod doesn’t play that big of a role in the shaping of the story or any major character. The exclusion of these characters doesn’t hurt the plot and doesn’t ruin the novel experience but it just has a slight effect on the impact the movie would have had if it had included