The Time Travelers Wife - Movie and Book
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 10:11 am
So I've recently fallen in love with Eric Bana. SWOON! When I found out he was going to be in this movie, I went out and read the book. I looked all over the Lex for this discussion and I couldn't find it anywhere. I saw a few posts about people having seen the film, but I thought there might be some good discussion on book vrs film in here. Thus, I need to warn those who read the thread that if you haven't read the book or seen the movie there will be spoilers in here - especially considering that the book was different from the film. (Aren't they all?)
Anyway...
I was so very caught up in the book. I couldn't figure out how the author (whose name I can't even TRY to spell) kept the time line straight. There were some amazing stand out moments to me that the movie totally missed. Like Claire and Henry's first time together when she was 18 just before the 2 year separation. Or the time when they tied that creepy guy she dated to a tree and scared the crap out of him. And I just adored the time Henry and Claire go to a club in the now and Henry from the future shows up and she hugs him and says that she misses him! Talk about brain bending. UGH!
And the movie had some really great things, too. Eric Bana nekkid in the stacks NEVER gets old. Sigh... And the montage of their life together when he would just suddenly vanish. I liked the one where he was setting the table, rounded the corner, and CRASH goes the plate. I thought the wedding was done nicely and made it more obvious with the visual how odd it would look to the family that the groom suddenly had gray hair. I thought the aging of all the character was great. Costumes, too. The outfit he was wearing when his friend spotted him beating up that guy... PERFECTION! And probably the one change the movie made from the book that worked so much better for me was when she went to pick up a "past" Henry in the car and left the "Now" Henry on the couch... and that was where Alba came from rather than the kind of kinky and rather unbelievable way it was done in the book... if you know what I mean.
But what the movie missed... oh boy. Why oh why oh why didn't they keep the ending? I was so looking forward to seeing her in her 80's seeing him again. The ending of the film was nice, but the book did it better. And his feet? Seriously? Couldn't they have gone with the book and taken his feet? It made it more obvious as to how he was going to die. OH! And why did they change how he convinced his doctor what he was? I thought it was so much more meaningful having it be about the doctor's child than about some grant he was waiting for.
Still, anyway you slice it, I love the story. I heard she is writing a sequel. Anyone know about this? How can she write a sequel when she ended it the way she did? Maybe it's Alba's story and we get bits of Henry and Claire in it that way. Not sure.
Anyway...
I was so very caught up in the book. I couldn't figure out how the author (whose name I can't even TRY to spell) kept the time line straight. There were some amazing stand out moments to me that the movie totally missed. Like Claire and Henry's first time together when she was 18 just before the 2 year separation. Or the time when they tied that creepy guy she dated to a tree and scared the crap out of him. And I just adored the time Henry and Claire go to a club in the now and Henry from the future shows up and she hugs him and says that she misses him! Talk about brain bending. UGH!
And the movie had some really great things, too. Eric Bana nekkid in the stacks NEVER gets old. Sigh... And the montage of their life together when he would just suddenly vanish. I liked the one where he was setting the table, rounded the corner, and CRASH goes the plate. I thought the wedding was done nicely and made it more obvious with the visual how odd it would look to the family that the groom suddenly had gray hair. I thought the aging of all the character was great. Costumes, too. The outfit he was wearing when his friend spotted him beating up that guy... PERFECTION! And probably the one change the movie made from the book that worked so much better for me was when she went to pick up a "past" Henry in the car and left the "Now" Henry on the couch... and that was where Alba came from rather than the kind of kinky and rather unbelievable way it was done in the book... if you know what I mean.
But what the movie missed... oh boy. Why oh why oh why didn't they keep the ending? I was so looking forward to seeing her in her 80's seeing him again. The ending of the film was nice, but the book did it better. And his feet? Seriously? Couldn't they have gone with the book and taken his feet? It made it more obvious as to how he was going to die. OH! And why did they change how he convinced his doctor what he was? I thought it was so much more meaningful having it be about the doctor's child than about some grant he was waiting for.
Still, anyway you slice it, I love the story. I heard she is writing a sequel. Anyone know about this? How can she write a sequel when she ended it the way she did? Maybe it's Alba's story and we get bits of Henry and Claire in it that way. Not sure.