The Glass castle is a memoir of the peculiar childhood and family of Jeanette Walls. The memoir was turned into a movie, which was released August 11, 2017. The movie was written by Destin Cretton and Andrew Lanham. Over 5 million copies of the book have been sold and the movie and the movie has grossed approximately twenty million dollars. Movies that are derived from books usually come across complications when they are compared and critiqued from the standard of the book. When movies are created from a book they have to cut scenes and important details from the book. In the article “The Trouble with Making Books We Love into Movies” by The Atlantic, says, “But any way you look at it, the movie version of a widely successful book is bound to go wrong”(Paragraph 4, Doll). This helps solidify that movies are a compromise for the masses to get a version of the book that will give them interest. Limited to a couple hours to condense an entire novel the movies. When I watched the movie I noticed the movie skips and rearranges …show more content…
In the book, Rex asks Jeanette what she wants as a birthday present. Her father promised anything that he could get for her. Jeanette asked him, “Do you think you could maybe stop drinking” (116). Compared to the movie in which she asked him to stop drinking. But it was also after a scene in which she stitched up Rex’s arm, which happened later in the book. Switching the order of the scenes changed the flow of the movie. The book also had more important conversation piece that read into Rex’s drunk character and his recovery from his alcoholism. In the movie, Rex screams at Jeanette to get him a drink while he is bound up to the bed. Where as in the book his audible actions are limited to moans. Also saying small phrases such as “No”, “Stop”, and “Oh my God”(117). The movie also skipped over the next conversation between Jeanette and Lori, having already deviated from the order of the