Twilight

I suppose I am not as fluent a follower of the Stephanie Meyer Books as others. The first thing I was told by and English Major upon exiting the theater after viewing "Twilight;" was that the movie and the book were so different. I found the tone and the plot were unchanged. There were two small sub-plots and minor character actions lost in the film, but after all-the plot was the same and the basic storyline was exactly the way I had experienced it in the movie.

Of all book-to-movie stories out there, I found that Twilight was the most unchanged. The story of Alice and her lack of background/history in the movie was a non issue because it was only a side/sub-plot to the book. Whether it becomes important in later movies/books is not at dispute at the moment. The story of the multiple groups of people in school and the subplot of the girl who despised her due to "Tyler's" advances were non existant in the movie because from a producer's standpoint they're not even relevant to the two characters the movie wants to protray. In the book I found that sub-plot a diversion from the main story.

The only difference I found at all unnerving between the movie and the book is the characters themselves. The movie made that characters a "torn and tortured" version of that which was in the book. The book was much more sarcastic and humor-filled than the film. The characters in the book were more easy to understand because they seemed more on par with real emotions. The movie versions were well developed as far as movies go, but they lacked the essential character in the books. The chracters seemed different and the goals of each character different. To me this is the sole difference.