In Reply to: Friday Night Lights posted by jamesgarvin on February 16, 2005 at 08:23:15:
Those differences, like how the Boobie character really got hurt and how the school treated him afterwards are done for more dramatic effect and soft peddled in the movie (the dramatic effect being how the injury happened and the soft peddling being how the school treated him and how the coaching staff felt about him).This is just one of many differences in both content and tone.
The book is for sure a couple of orders of magnitutde better than the movie.
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- The book is much better and there are significant differences between the real story and the movie. - sjb 11:28:16 02/16/05 (5)
- Well, one shouldn't compare apples and oranges. How - tinear 17:03:12 02/16/05 (2)
- Re: Well, one shouldn't compare apples and oranges. How - sjb 07:38:54 02/17/05 (0)
- Re: Well, one shouldn't compare apples and oranges. How - jamesgarvin 06:26:19 02/17/05 (0)
- Re: The book is much better and there are significant differences between the real story and the movie. - jamesgarvin 14:58:19 02/16/05 (1)
- Re: The book is much better and there are significant differences between the real story and the movie. - sjb 07:37:12 02/17/05 (0)