There are some major discrepancies between the two versions – perhaps most significantly is the film's lack of character development.
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Sure, the movie trailer (above) looks really great and powerful – I agree! But it comes nowhere near the emotion and message conveyed by the book. Now, I must preface this by saying I always find the book better than the movie, but I don't think I've ever been so let down by a book-to-film adaptation in my life.
And that's when the story really begins.Īfter finishing the book with tears in my eyes, I decided to rent The Book Thief movie from my local library to compare the two mediums. The stranger turns out to be Max Vandenburg, a Jewish man with a unique connection to the Hubermanns, and they proceed to hide him in their basement. One fateful night, a young stranger appears on the doorsteps and is quickly ushered inside before collapsing. After some initial resistance she manages to find love for her new family, especially her accordion-playing papa, Hans Hubermann, who gives her the magical gift of literacy. Using Death as the story's narrator, The Book Thief follows the life of Liesel Meminger, a young German girl who is sent to live with foster parents after her Communist mother flees the country during Hitler's rise to power. But if the book was a peacock, then the movie version must have been a pigeon. Luckily, it was an assigned reading for one of my classes, so I managed to kill two birds with one stone, and let me tell you – what a beautiful bird it turned out to be. After years of having it on my to read list, I finally got around to reading The Book Thief.
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