The Book Thief Movie Analysis

When books are adapted to movies Directors will usually change a number of things and change unnecessary details. However, for the movie The Book Thief the director did not seem to consider all that he was getting rid of that helped the story flow. There were many differences and similarities between the book and the movie. However, the film adaptation does not measure up to the original due to some incorrect order of events, certain details, and the characters. Even though the Movie and the book had some major differences they had some important similarities. Some character relationships remained the same. Examples of this would be Liesel and Han’s father daughter bond, Max’s lasting friendship with Liesel, and Rudy liking Liesel. They show Liesel stealing the Gravedigger's Handbook at the beginning of the movie. At the end of the movie and book, everyone on Himmel Street died except for Liesel. In the movie, the order of events was significantly altered for some parts. Others were
For Liesel, they did not show her drastic character development throughout the movie, unlike the book. For Death, since he did not narrate as much this lead to some parts of the movie lacking dramatic feeling. Since death was the narrator of the book it would be expected that he would have narrated the movie just as much. Another character that was vaguely different was Ilsa Herman. The book made her sound like a weak and frail women who was very shy. She lacked sensitivity when she was talking about her son in the movie. Directors will change a number of things when they are turning a book into a movie. Some of these things maybe are orders and details of events that are taking place. The movie version of The Book Thief did not measure up to the original because of the amount of detail taken out. The movie it was not as emotional and dramatic as the