The Book Fahrenheit 451 has been turned into a movie.
In the film adaptation, the plot line is slightly altered, for example, at the beginning of the novel, the main character's, Guy Montag's, wife has overdosed on some pharmaceutical drug and she needs to have her stomach pumped. In the novel, the first time he comes home, she is laying on the ground like this, whereas in the movie, it is the second lime he comes home, and the events which occur after this occurrence in the book, occur before this in the film adaptation. The reasoning for changing parts around like this is most likely because they make more sense in relation to the other alterations in this film. Reason for cutting sections out of the book is simply because there are time restrictions on how much can actually be used to make the movie, and these may be over the limit, so cuts need to be made.
I thought that the film adaptation of Fahrenheit 451 was an alright creation because the story is still the same, just with semi-minor alterations. Generally, the film adaptations are not as good as the books anyway, and it is the same for essentially everything else as well: video games made into films are often not that great (the movie, I mean, not the video game itself) It is still a good story, no matter what changes are made, unless the film director really messes up in recreating the storyline from the novel into a film.
I am also reading this novel. I had no idea that it was a movie. I think you did an excellent job of describing specifically what had been changed and gave logical reasoning behind it as well. I can agree with you as well about books being better than the films, I find that no matter how much they try the detail in a book in always better than a film's because it a book has no time restraint.
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