Lone Survivor: Comparing Book And Movie

Matt 'Axe' Axelson said, “If I die I need you to make sure that Cindy knows how much I love her”. Marcus Luttrell replied, “She knows”. ‘Axe’ then lastly said, “And that I died with my brothers - with a full f***ing heart”. The Navy SEAL Operation Redwing is the most tragic mission is SEAL history, with everyone died, but one man who was able to pass on the story in the novel Lone Survivor which was also later adapted into a movie. Although the book and movie both have the same story about a SEAL surviving against all odds, there are still some differences between the book and the movie.
In the movie, Lone Survivor, there are a lot of similar things that also happened during the tragic real life mission. For example, the author of the book and main character, Marcus Luttrell, was saved by Afghan villagers that helped him and protected him from the Taliban till he was able to be rescued by the US. According to Schneiderman, “That’s when a few Afghan villagers appeared before him. ‘No Taliban!’ one of them shouted. ‘No Taliban!’ He gave Luttrell water and helped carry him back to their
For instance, in the movie it portrays that there are three goat herders, one is a man and two are boys. In the book it is different, “But unlike the movie, only one of them was a boy, not two”(Similarities & Differences). The people the portrayed the goat herders is a small difference, but the number of Taliban the the four SEALs fought off has been a very big controversy. In the book the number of Taliban is a lot bigger than the ones in the movie, “In the Lone Survivor movie, the SEALs are ambushed by approximately 50 Taliban fighters. However, the book asserts that the Taliban fighters consisted of between ‘80 and 200 armed men’” (Similarities & Differences). Overall, Lone Survivor is a great movie and Berg did a great job from transitioning the book onto the the big screen even though there are