The movie is different from the original book. Have you ever felt that a movie based on a book you loved didn't quite turn out to be the same? Turning a book into a movie can change a lot of things about the story. The Westing Game was made into a movie, but the movie is different from the book in many ways. Most of the big details are left out in the book. Some of the changes are characters missing, characters changing, and changes in events. There were some characters from the book that didn't appear in the movie, including Denton Deere, Flora Baumbach, Madame Hoo, and Theo Theodorakis. In the book, Flora Baumbach was important to Turtle and even braided her hair(pg. 75). The syllable of the syllable. However, in the movie, Grace played a more significant role in Turtle's life. Denton Deere, who was about to be Angela's fiancé in the book(pg. 69), was replaced by Plum in the movie which she later denied. Theo was also absent from the movie because Chris was the one playing chess. Additionally, Doug Hoo and Jake Wexler both appeared in the movie but not in the Westing game itself. In the movie, …show more content…
The book had 16 heirs who tried to solve the mystery of Sam Westing's death, while the movie focused on Turtle and only had 10 heirs. Sunset Towers was presented as luxurious in the book ( pg. 2) but was an unpleasant place to live in the movie. The value of the Westing game also changed between the two versions. In the book, it was worth 200 million pg. 22. But in the movie, it was worth only 20 million. In the movie, the Wexler family moved to Sunset Towers because they had no money, but in the book, they moved because they had money and a good salesman (pg. 4. The adage of the adage. Also, the movie had only two bombs, compared to four in the book (pg. 145). The. In the book, Turtle confessed to all the bombings(pg. 156. But in the movie, she did not. Finally, the book was set in 1960, while the movie was set in
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin is a thrilling and mysterious novel that could be tuned into a great movie; that is if the director bothers to read the book first! The Westing Game book have many details, some very important, that were left out in The Westing Game movie. Recently, the 6th grade students at Gull Lake Middle School read and watched The Westing Game, and were underwhelmed when many details were left out of the movie. The Westing Game book and novel have many similarities and differences