The Maze Runner - Book-To-Movie.

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Finally what you have all been waiting for:)

Emma's Rating: 4/5

Ashvini's Rating: 4/5

Emma:

That movie was one of the most relatable movies to the book. Wow. Their were a few small details that were so small that I am not even going to mention them. Like the fact that the maze had windows so you could actually see the grievers were as in the movie they just magically know.

While their were smaller things their were also bigger things that were harder to pass by. For instance in the book the characters did not swear. Instead the gladers had their own swear words, (shuck, shank, ... and so on) but in the movie the characters swore 24/7. (Ashvini: Not 24/7...)  Oddly though, about once or twice they said shank and that really struck me as weird because their was no point, they were already swearing.

In my opinion the books were more detailed. I knew where every thing was and everything was so organized. I knew that in one corner was the gardens, I knew that in another corner was the bloodhouse, in another was homestead and so on... In the movie I felt like I didn't know where anything was.

The personalities of all of the characters were slightly different as if outlined with sharpie in the book. I can't say that Alby was the sweetest person that you will ever meet in the movie but in the book he was definitely the leader for a reason. I also felt like in the movie you didn't see much of Newt or Chuck which was a shame. I also felt like in the book Chuck and Thomas were much closer. When I was watching the movie I couldn't help but notice that some of the major events were "shuffled" surprisingly the producers still managed to not totally change all of the events.

Ashvini:

In terms of book to movie adaptations, The Maze Runner was a pretty solid one. 

They included a lot of the minor details that I thought they might take out: Newt's accent, the name carvings on The Maze's walls, Thomas' first face plant, etc. 

However, that doesn't mean they didn't change anything. They missed the beetle blades, Newt's limp/backstory, Teresa comes up the box the next day in the books, which is all okay beacuse they're trying to make a 375 paged book into a 2 hour movie. The biggest thing really that they changed was the whole Thomas/Teresa telepathy thing, which, I didn't exactly mind that much because it was out of the blue and unfitting in the book. The only problem now is how they're going to continue the movies without the telepathy.

They also changed up the personalities slightly: Alby was really sweet in the movie (That's a bit of an understatement - Emma) , unlike in the books where he was very gruff and stern, and I kind of like him better this way. I feel like it had a greater effect on me when he died in the movie than it did in the books. Newt was also slightly different, unlike Alby he was a teensy bit more blunt in the movie which again I feel suits the role he plays in the movie better. We also saw less of Chuck in the movie because again you can only include so much in 2 hours. I also feel like you were able to understand movie Thomas than you were book Thomas because of how they portrayed him in the movie. Teresa as well. She definitely seemed more strong and sensible in the movie than she did in the books. I feel like in the books her personality didn't match her dialogue, it was kind of like she knew she was awesome.

Something I really admired about the movie was how diverse they maintained to keep cast and characters. It was truly amazing!

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I am sure Ashvini would say that I am not the best person to watch movies that were based off of books with because it gets really loud. Ha Ha:)

     - EMMA

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Yours Truly,

Ashvini and Emma