Freak The Mighty Movie And Book Comparison Essay

In the book Freak the Mighty, it was written by Rodman Philbrick. In the movie The Mighty, it was directed by Peter Chelsom. They both have the same characters with the same problem, same story plot, same everything. In the book it said how they met in the summer when Freak just moved in and he was having troubles with getting his robot bird, so Max helped him. In the movie they officially met during school time when Freak ended up being his tutor.
Some of the most important similarities is that they both have their arch enemy in the book and the movie. Without Tony D and his gang it wouldn’t seem as exciting as it is. Also, when Tony D and his gang were chasing Max and Freak at the fireworks, they ended up running into the millpond and Max’s
I think they made this change instead of keeping it the same to show how it took a while for them to be friends, even after Max still didn’t want to be friends because of what had happened at the millpond. Another difference is that Freak ended up dying in his sleep instead of dying in the hospital a few days after having a seizure. They made this change probably because it would be too expensive to get the hospital and everything, and in the book Max runs to the medical research and breaks through, but in the movie he just runs in and I think they did that because it would be too expensive.
I think it is very important to make changes in the movies from the book because usually in books they are so descriptive to the point where some stuff aren’t that important or just too expensive to have in movies. With books you have to describe a lot to really paint a picture in someone’s mind, but in movies it will show you the really important parts from the book to really make up the movie and the whole plot, and without the plot it isn’t really based on the