Whenever a movie comes to the big screens, the first thing I do is check to see if it's based on a book. If it is, I will take the time to read the book before seeing it in the theater. I cannot believe how many movies are completely destroying the book. Just to name a few that I've read recently, My Sister's Keeper and Dear John.
Usually, most of the movie is accurate. I understand that they have to take out some of the details in order for it to fit into an hour and a half period. However, when they completely change the ending of the story, that's when it hurts.
SPOILER ALERT
In the book, My Sister's Keeper, Kate has cancer and is fighting her parents in court for property of her own body so she won't have to go through anymore tests. In the end, Kate ends up winning the case. There's a car accident that her sister, Anna, is involved in. She's close to death, but then Kate dies and is able to donate her organs to Anna, who survives the accident. In the movie, Kate beats the cancer and Anna ends up dying in the car accident.
In the book, Dear John, Savannah ends up marrying another man and breaks John's heart when he comes back from the Middle East. Of course, this other man, Savannah's best friend from growing up, now has cancer. He survives and John ends up alone, watching Savannah and her husband from a distance in the woods (creepy?). In the movie, Savannah's husband dies of cancer and John wins Savannah.
I don't get it. Why would you completely change the entire ending of the story when the original ending was amazing in itself? Who has the answer to this? Anyone?
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