# Works where you liked both the book and the movie, but for different reasons

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**Created:** [August 11, 2012, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/works-where-you-liked-both-the-book-and-the-movie-but-for-different-reasons/631154 "2012-08-11T03:04:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![oreally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7ab992/32.png) [@oreally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oreally)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/works-where-you-liked-both-the-book-and-the-movie-but-for-different-reasons/631154/41 "2012-08-15T14:12:07Z")

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> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> He didn’t play the Abominable Snowman (which is never called that in the book – it’s a Charles Beaumont imposition. The book calls it a Russian ot a Bear or something) or the Giant Serpent

Well the serpant was an “animation” and I think he did the voice, so yeah he was that character.

eh on the others. You could have inserted any of a zillion other actors in there and not lost a thing (assuming the Eden character was hot 😉 ). Randall was the movie.

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/works-where-you-liked-both-the-book-and-the-movie-but-for-different-reasons/631154/42 "2012-08-15T14:54:23Z")

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> [@oreally](#):
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> Well the serpant was an “animation” and I think he did the voice, so yeah he was that character.
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> eh on the others. You could have inserted any of a zillion other actors in there and not lost a thing (assuming the Eden character was hot 😉 ). Randall was the movie.

I’m not sure he did the serpent voice – it sounds like O’Connell (who it resembles in some scenes), so I’ve always suspected _he_ did the voice. But I admit I dpon’t know for sure. (By the way – the scene between a businessman and the serpent is in the book, so at that point the movie’s being fairly faithful. It goes on much longer in the book.)

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**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/works-where-you-liked-both-the-book-and-the-movie-but-for-different-reasons/631154/43 "2012-08-15T15:21:20Z")

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\*Moneyball. \*  
A fascinating book for baseball fans, but probably nobody else.

The movie somehow turned a book that was primarily about how to best interpret baseball statistics into an engrossing dramatic narrative about how people relate to and value one another. A different kind of fascinating.

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