About A Boy
...favor the book more than that of the film (even though I watched the movie first), I could see pivotal circumstances in the writing of the book which I felt would have been hard for the screenwriters to accomplish or impossible for them to pull off. One major difference of the book and the film is it’s ending. They are totally different from one another. The book gave you further analysis and depth to the characters, which made its ending work. The relationship of Ellie to Marcus, and Marcus to his father became just as important to that of Marcus’s relationship to Will or his mother. It helped you feel Marcus’s change more than in that of the film. Although in the film, you could see Marcus and Ellie’s relationship forming, it wasn’t like the book where a lot of chapters were just about the two of them. I enjoyed both the book’s ending and the movie’s ending thoroughly, but if you tried to flip-flop them out, it would simply not work. I can’t see the book ending like the film, and it was impossible for the movie to end like the book (unless you wanted the movie an additional two hours long). Another difference was the main character's standpoints. About A Boy the book seems to be more about Marcus and his relationship to Will, his Mum, his Dad, and Ellie. The films standpoint seems to more on Marcus’s relationship with Will, and Will’s relationship with Rachael. Although it goes without saying if you have seen the film or read the book, the title About A Boy can be in reference to Marcus or Will, given Will’s boyish attitude, but I feel Marcus should be the major attraction of both. In the book, Will and Rachael’s relationship never really goes on the down’s as much as it does in that of the movie. They are still together before the Cambridge trip, where as in the movie the talent show plays a pivotal role in his “winning her back.” The relationship of Marcus and Ellie in the book however was more significant than that of the one in the movie. The movie had a brief scene in which it just showed clips of them together while music played and showed the time pass. In the book however, Marcus and Ellie’s relationship (and that of his father) is one reason the end is different than that of the movie and Marcus‘s change. I actually felt someone cheated that the movie did not make their relationship more important. I did like the way the movie chose to end, but the screenwriters could have at least dove into this relationship better than j...