Differences Between Book and Movie. Spoilers Ahoy!

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Enright, here is the passage where we find out the difference between Michael and Vito - that Michael can move against family, while Vito can’t:

Book VII

Emphasis mine.

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So, how long has Hollywood been changing endings? I just watched Alice Adams on TCM, 1935. I was tickled pink that they took much of the dialogue and scenes straight from the book (and Hepburn was marvelous), but boy howdy did they change the ending.

At the end of the book, Alice is dumped by her boyfriend Arthur, and she ends up going to the secretarial school that she’d been dreading. Alice father’s new business goes kaput and the family has to take in boarders.

In the movie, Arthur and Alice are happily-ever-after and her father becomes a business partner with the man who, in the book, ruined him.

I suppose the change was to be expected, it being the Depression and all, but the ending of the book wasn’t all that bad, really. All the characters learned about themselves, and Alice was gonna be okay.

I wonder how Booth Tarkington felt about it.

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Since before it was in Hollywood. Edison’s 1910 version of Frankenstein is not only abbreviated, but has a happy ending, with the monster vanishing. The silent version of Moby Dick, The Sea Beast, has Captain Ahab killing the whale(!!) and returning home to his sweetheart (!!!)

The semi-silent version of the Mysterious Island differs so much from any Jules Verne book that it’s essentially a made-up film.
and so on, and so on, and so on. They completely changed the ending of The Phantom of the Opera (and mucked around with the film itslf about four times after the initial release). They changed The Lost World to accommodate nw special effects and to avoid hurting the sensitivities of the audience (and to keep the makeup budget low). Nosferatu and Dracula differ significantly from the book (more understandable in the latter case – it’s adapted from a stage play, rather from the book), and even by 1931 the film frankenstein is so radically different from the book that it’s practically a new story.

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In the classic Day The Earth Stood Still 50s movie , the “robot” Gort appears subservient to the humanoid Klaatu , but in the original Harry Bates short story “Farewell to the Master”, it is the Robot who is the “master”.