Movie Poster |
the Foxes were moving houses from the hole to the tree, I was "Animals do that?!".
The way the characters were portrayed in the book are very different when compared to the movie. For example, the protagonist of the movie - Mr. Fox is showed as the ideal father figure, but, in the movie, he is showed as a father who's running away from his responsibilities and sounds very sophisticated, thanks to George Clooney (voice of Mr. Fox). Mrs. Fox is represented like a 60s housewife in the book, but in the movie, an independent, hippie-looking housewife. Ash as a dis-obedient kid who's still figuring out who he is but in the book, an obedient child who listens to his parents without a question. The farmers, Boggis, Bunce and Bean are not represented very different from the book though. In my opinion, the movie has a much more realistic feel to it than the book.
The Book |
Wolf Scene |
If I wanted to, I could talk about the wolf scene in this entire paragraph... but I won't do that :| I think the biggest difference in the movie and the book is the representation of women. As I mentioned before, in the book Mrs. Fox is shown as a woman who always supports her husband but in the movie Mrs. Fox is independent and tells her husband to change, for example one of her quotes "If what I think is happening is happening - it better not be." Other things that caught my attention were that, the film actually had a life lesson - everyone has to grow up! As Mr. Fox was running away, he realizes that and he goes to face them. Whereas in the book - there's nothing like that. Another thing was that during the wolf scene Mr. Fox tells the wolf that he has a phobia of them. He faced his fear, what's better than that?
I think this is one of the rare cases where I actually preferred the movie over the book! and the reasons, well, the MAIN reason is the wolf scene (it's amazing) but other things were, the way they showed Mrs. Fox as being modern and independent and the way I could connect with Ash in ways. For example the way that he's 'different'. The future of story - telling will hopefully be books, but if these types of movies come out... I think movies would take over.