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Have you read the book? If so are you disappointed that they didnt ..

posted 9 years ago by Per-berglund92
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If so are you disappointed that they didnt include the part with Eli and the "father"? Or do you think it would have been too hardcore?

[–] Jameron 9 years ago

"If so are you disappointed that they didnt include the part with Eli and the "father"? Or do you think it would have been too hardcore?" - Per-berglund92

You mean the Zombie Vampire anal rape scene?

It wouldn't have fit in with the rest of the film.

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[–] awsmith 9 years ago

Not really disappointed. Not sure how they would've filmed that without running afoul of the movie ratings.

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[–] dongregg-953-168798 8 years ago

Yes, I read the book. For all of their similarities, the novel and the film stand alone as separate creations. I believe JAL said the script for the film was not a condensation of the book. Says he can't work that way. Instead, he wrote a 200 page screenplay from scratch. I think he said he had to keep cutting it until it ended up about 50? or 70? pages.

Then there is all of the film that ended up on the cutting room floor.

No, I don't regret anything in the 472 pages of the novel that was left out of the film. And I don't regret the opposite, stuff in the film that was handled differently than in the book.

But then, I didn't feel from my first viewing through many, many viewings that anything needed explained.

As I wrote on the We, the Infected forum, before I had read Let the Old Dreams Die,

"The gentle motion of the train calms her. She will sleep, and when she wakes, she and her beautiful Oskar will start a new life. What will happen to them? Good stuff, bad stuff. The same as for everyone. Life will happen to them."

[–] drakkar 8 years ago

The film does hint about the true nature of the relationship between Eli and Håkan, so it is included - albeit weakly.

Live pictures can be a much stronger medium than the written word, and they (Alfredson) realised that going explicitly about the paedophilia would overshadow the love story between Eli and Oskar. So, this is basically why they tread so lightly upon this theme.

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