The Secret Life Of Bees Movie Analysis

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The Secret Life of Bees book and movie have many similarities, but at the same time they are both very different. Both the film and the book are great. Now, no movie based off a book is exactly the same, but it can come close and I thought they did a good job making it a close as possible to the book.

One difference I noticed was that in the book Zach got beaten up for sitting with Lily in the white people section of the theater, but in the movie he just gets kidnapped. Also another thing that is different is that in the book Black Mary’s role was not as important. She was still in the movie but they took out the whole Mary Day detail and everything that came with it. One more thing is that in the movie all the weird and uncomfortable
The movie did a good job of capturing his intent to be a lawyer and how he gets offended when Lily says he should play sports. The part I never understood is how Zac got kidnaped and reappears a few minutes later, they probably had a hard time working around him going to jail in the book. I pictured Zac a little different, in the movie he was a well built man who wore a tank top and jeans and ate funny cakes May made for him. I pictured him as a skinny, serious boy with glasses while reading the book. For someone who doesn't want to play sports he sure looks like he plays a lot of them. The ending to the movie was fifty fifty, they got some of it right and got some of it wrong. How T-ray found Lily in the movie is very different from the book. In the book he receives a phone bill and sees the call Lily made and travels to the town she is in, but in the movie he does the whole tack and map thing which was kinda cool but wasn't at all accurate. Then he travels to where Lily is staying, but he doesn't bring a knife like he did in the book. In the movie he sees the whale pin and starts calling her Debrah. And then Rosaleen and August appear and Lily says that this is her family now and T-ray drives away. The movie did a good job on capturing the key moments from the book but also left out/changed some key points. Overall I enjoyed the movie more than the book but both were a little lacking in action for

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