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Eragon book vs. Movie

I just watched the movie Eragon, It sucked and I knew it would but still, I love the book and I thought ti might be fun (it wasn't, it sucked really bad).


The book in complex and slow and beautiful with a lot of emotions and questions about the way people make choices and the effect of those choices, the dragon is as much a character, with a sense of humor and strong feeling as the main human character and there are a lot of technical details about magic and strength and fighting.


The movie however looks like an hour and a half music video with no music, there are barely any dialogs, the characters are flat, and a beautiful deep debate about the nature of choices and taking sides and freedom is turn into a basic shallow good and evil battle.


IK was wondering if Christopher Paolini made any statements regarding the movie, if he liked it or hated it? 


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Why not hear hin talk about it in person , in general he says it's "strange".

1:44- he starts talking about it. 
Posted 2007-08-14T08:44:08Z
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Hi Lilly,


An excellent question.  I followed it and since no one dared to answer I'll take the lead.  Anyone who reads a lot knows that the book is 99 out of 100 better than the movie.  Years ago I wondered why and came to the conclusion that the events, as written in the book, leave much to the reader imagination. The characters are built slowly, the emotions are built page by page, the dialog is set with hints and guesses, all is built step by step, interelated.... at the movie all has to be quick and focused .....
I absoletly agree with your comments (very smart & sensitive) I felt the same.  It happend to me many times B4 (e.g: Papilon). 
So, take it easy, lower your expectations, and always remeber that the book is 99 out of 100 better than the movie.
Best regards,
Posted 2007-08-13T07:37:32Z
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Thanks! I goess this is as close as he could get to saying he didn't like it without getting into trouble with the production...

The interview was really cool by the way. 
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I like the movie though I must say that the book was better.. just like in Harry Potter the books are better than the movie.  There are some scenario that they didn't  include in the movie.  But the only thing that made the movie good is that you will not imagine you will see clearly the characters the book was portraying. ^_^
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I guess that's why I was so disappointed of it - It was totally not the way I imagined it. I listened to the audio book versions and the guy who was reading it did such an amazing job bringing everything to life.

 

One of my favorite things  about Eragon was that there are a lot of evil people but no side is totally good or evil and each choice changes things and effect the future in both good and bad ways. In the movie there was no explanation about any of this and it was such a typical good vs. Evil story.

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i already read the book but i havent seen the movie yet,.thanks for the information,.now im so curious to watch it on dvd to campare what better..the book or the movie!
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