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Book to movie inconsistencies that are genuinely annoying and unneeded
rynne:
I Am Legend? The theatrical cut omits the entire theme to which the title refers.
Book: Neville is a "legend" because the vampires have a functioning society and, to them, Neville is some monster who kills them in their sleep.
Film: Neville is a "legend" because he figured out how to cure vampirism and save humanity.
The alternate ending to the film retained some of the Neville = monster theme, but it's still nowhere near the book, where humans are completely wiped out and vampires basically took their role.
Nodaisho:
Man, all of the I Am Legend adaptations change things.
Tom:
To be fair, I actually like both the novel and the latest movie adaptation equally.
Border Reiver:
--- Quote from: TheFuriousWombat on 17 May 2009, 09:15 ---Whenever I watch the battle scenes in Braveheart I think "man, if they really wanted to be authentic all those Scots would be naked right now" and then I thank god that they didn't concern themselves with being that accurate.
--- End quote ---
Wallace and the Anglo-Scottish Wars took place in the late 13th century - the Scots stopped fighting "skyclad" about the time of Boudicca (approx 70 AD, or 1200 years earlier).
If they'd wanted the scenes to look authentic - William Wallace would have been attired as the knight he was (he was the son of a minor knight), the Scots wouldn't have looked too different from the English (kilts were not that common outside of the Highlands, and most of Wallace's followers came from the Border Regions), and NO ONE would have worn facepaint.
Stirling would have had the battlefield cut in half by a stream with steep sides crossed by a single bridge.
The moive was fun - not as fun as Starship Troopers (which I define as a "turn off the brain and watch Michael Ironside chew scenery" flick) - in a "I'm Mel Gibson, and I really don't like the English, so please ignore the historical inconsistencies" sort of way.
Josefbugman:
Why does he hate the english so much? I mean we have done a lot of bad stuff but the scottish have been fighting each other far more effectively than they had been fighting us since the end of the dark ages.
Its the same with "kingdom of heaven" the actual history of that time period was interesting enough, hollywood only embellished it so they could have some clearer characters. Oh well.
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