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About About a Boy
I reread the book About a Boy over Memorial Day Weekend. I really shouldn't have. About a Boy was a good movie. You should go see it and THEN you should read the book. And then you should read Bridget Jones's Diary and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. They were good movies of better books.
I was a bit spoiled for About a Boy because I'd read the book so recently and I was disappointed when they didn't follow it exactly. Of course, that would difficult. The problem is that the book uses the death of Kurt Cobain as an important plot point, which wouldn't work well with Will being "cool". If we took the movie back to 1994, Will wouldn't be cool anymore. 1994 isn't cool anymore. Nothing that happened in 1994 is cool anymore.
So I guess they had to work around that, and they did a good job. Hugh Grant was great, he was actually cute for once, and there were some things in the movie that were better than the book. I just missed Ellie. She was a character in the books, rather than just scenery.
srah - Wednesday, 5 June 2002 - 8:39 AM
Tags: books, movies
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