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Follow the River: Movie and Book differences

             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 that they can write but a director is because the attention spans of the audience could wander. .
             The author James Alexander Thom spent a lot of time describing every detail and where every item is place in the room or surrounding and every encounter and memory that occurred on the journey. In the movie whilliam nd mary had only one child at the beginning, Tommie. In the book there were two Tommie and Georgie. On the morning of the Indian attack when john and whilliam went to work they did not go the field as in the book but to a fence and they worked on that instead. Then when the Indians attack cornel pattan does not behead one of the Indian attackers as he does in the book. instead he takes his sword and then is killed. In the movie, after the attack when bettie mary and Tommie are being taken to the Indian village they do not ride any horses as they do in the book.
             Once the group reaches the Indian village in the book bettie runs a gauntlet but in the movie she does not have to. When the French trader approaches mary with his proposel for shirt making in the book the offer is only open to mary but in the movie bettie also makes shirts. .
             He talks about how on the journey the two women stop and massage their feet for awhile. The director showed this as well hopeing to capture this very fact.


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