Journey to the Center of the Earth from Jules Verne
The book involves three explorers (all men) trying to get to the center of the earth.
The 1950s movie somehow adds a woman to the traveling party (maybe eliminating one of the original three from the book), and also adds another pair of explorers trying to beat them to the center of the earth.
I’m not sure if this is really adding characters, or just wholesale changes to the source material.
I’m guessing that many other Verne adaptations had the same random additions.
Poorly, which was sort of the point. They reach their destination and it sort of dawns on them that they can live there and hang out but they’ll need to get some does to have a lasting warren. It highlights the by-the-moment nature of their ordeal and how they’re learning as they go along.
Having a doe in the film changes that since now they didn’t lack females due to a lack of foresight but through accident. Although I guess poor Violet would have been one busy doe had she made it alive.
In Kathy Reichs’s books, Temperance Brennan’s daughter is named Katie. In Bones, she’s Christine.
/Arguably a minor point about the name. The books’ Temperance Brennan is much older and Katie is a college student, whereas in Bones, Christine is an infant. Too early to tell whether Katie and Christine are supposed to be the same character, different names notwithstanding.
Wait. Is it true Booth isn’t in the books? You picked her daughter, does that mean the other show characters are in the book, or that you didn’t think their additions/substitutions were interesting?
It wasn’t that it was a well considered plan to leave the warren and start a new colony either. The crazy prophet character had a dream that a catastrophe was about to occur. He managed to convince his brother, who convinced a few other rabbits, and they’re the ones who left - because they thought they were going to die if they stayed. The leader of the warren refused to listen to to the prophet, and tried to prevent their departure as well. So they didn’t manage to convince any does to go/weren’t allowed to speak to does/none of the rabbits they did convince had a doe of their own to bring with them - take your pick.
The one Reichs book I read had two guys. One was an ex husband who she still has feelings for, and a current boyfriend. Neither are named Booth. I can’t remember what their jobs were but I think one of them was a cop.
They also changed her relationship with Robb somewhat - if I’m not mistaken, Jeyne was the noble maiden who was nursing Robb back to health over a long period of time when he got wounded ; which is a much more “intimate” relationship than “the girl I chanced upon sawing legs after the battle”.
Other than Oona Chaplin being insanely hot, there’s no real reason why Robb would want to know a random camp follower better, let alone marry her, so the Talisa plot makes him look more shallow (as well as a lot more “modern”, in that he ostensibly ignores their difference in station and social castes - a very un-Westeros thing to do) than his mostly “off-screen” relationship with Jeyne did in the books.
Doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things, but it’s still a non-trivial change.
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I’ve heard rumors that they’ve added a female elf character to the new Hobbit movie, to be played by Evangeline Lily. anyone know?
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Don’t know about that, but for *The Lord of the Rings *they certainly altered the Arwen character a lot. Notably, she speaks (!) and even does stuff (!!) instead of being more or less a pretty flower pot in the background (that for some reason Aragorn cares for)
The series Bones and the books that Reichs writes are two different continuities that just happen to both have a main character named Temperance Brennan who is a forensic anthropologist. Reichs is a consultant on the series, and the TV show makes nods to the books from time to time, but they have nothing more in common. Even the books that TV-Tempe writes aren’t meant to be the ones Reichs writes in real life – they’re based on the cases her TV-team works on.
I’ve read the books, and I’ve seen most of the show, and they’re both pretty awesome, but the tone is quite different. Most notably, Tempe in the books doesn’t do the anthropologist-on-Mars thing, and though she does have a variety of regular contacts at a few universities (and the love interest cop), she works mostly by herself. Thus, everyone at the Jeffersonian is a character not in the books, which are not really the source material anyway.
In the beginning of “Bones,” author Kathy Reichs stated that the TV series was a prequel to the books, telling what Bones did before the series. However, the TV series has gone so far off track that this explanation no longer holds water.
Quite right – and many of them added women who weren’t in the originals. This hads happened with Five Weeks in a Balloon
From the Earth to the Moon
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (not the Disney version, though)
**The Island at the End of the World
The Mysterious Island
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and probably many others.
They added a woman to H.G. Wells’ First Men in the Moon, too.
Curiously, although Verne did write novels withstrong female characters, they generally haven’t been filmed. (Around the World in 80 Days has Princess Aouda, but she’s not a particularly “strong” character.)
Virtually all Verne novels have been considerably changed in adapting them to the screen (as have most Edgar Allen Poe stories and H.G. Wells books)
