The book and the movie follow the river had many interesting differences and similarities. The movie as many others had to cut certain events that were demanded not necessary in order to have a realistic time frame. the similarities show what the director thought was important enough to be shown and the differences show what was either too expensive to shoot or was not important to show. The author spent a lot of time describing the scenery and surrounding which takes many pages and detail which are able to be done in a single scene in a movie but the author is not limited to the amount of material tha