A couple of years ago, I finished reading the humorous and creative book, The Westing Game. At the end of the school year my 2 teachers let me and my class watch this movie to compare to the book. My teachers had hinted that we would be very disappointed. After watching the movie, the whole class, thought the movie was much, much more than disappointing.
A few reasons why this movie was bad: They excluded many important characters. I understand it would be hard for directors to have many characters, they probably thought it would confuse the audience. The book had clever humor in it and it made you fall in love with the characters and the whole story. Again, this was probably hard for the directors, in the book, there was a narrator.
One of the biggest mistakes that the director made was having Turtle Wexler as the main character. She solved Westing's Game and none of the others seemed important besides Sandy/Westing. The Westing Game was not really about Turtle, it was about all the tenants in Sunset Towers. In the book, she later becomes more of the main character; you follow her story and others.
Many plots were also excluded, many characters, their personalities were changed. For example, Angela Wexler, she was a timid, shy and she had a do-anything-your-mother-says attitude, but not in the movie. I was sorely disappointed with this film and I hope they have a whole new film about the Westing Game and that everyone will eventually forget about this film. It has already begun to fade from my memory.
A few reasons why this movie was bad: They excluded many important characters. I understand it would be hard for directors to have many characters, they probably thought it would confuse the audience. The book had clever humor in it and it made you fall in love with the characters and the whole story. Again, this was probably hard for the directors, in the book, there was a narrator.
One of the biggest mistakes that the director made was having Turtle Wexler as the main character. She solved Westing's Game and none of the others seemed important besides Sandy/Westing. The Westing Game was not really about Turtle, it was about all the tenants in Sunset Towers. In the book, she later becomes more of the main character; you follow her story and others.
Many plots were also excluded, many characters, their personalities were changed. For example, Angela Wexler, she was a timid, shy and she had a do-anything-your-mother-says attitude, but not in the movie. I was sorely disappointed with this film and I hope they have a whole new film about the Westing Game and that everyone will eventually forget about this film. It has already begun to fade from my memory.