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There is much to like about "The Cider House Rules," starting with the simple phenomenon that Hollywood did not entirely screw up the job of making a film of the John Irving novel. No doubt that's because it was a non-Hollywood director, Lasse Hallström, at the helm, and because Irving himself wrote the screenplay. (Must have been a relief for Irving, after Mark Steven Johnson eviscerated Irving's greatest novel, "A Prayer For Owen Meany," with the movie "Simon Birch. " Of course, a major novel can simply not squeeze into a feature film's time limit of three hours or less, so much of the meat of the great novel is missing from the movie "The Cider House Rules," but enough of its great spirit and moving story are on the screen to touch the heart.
It is an epic, in the classic sense, with the old hero -- Dr. In these post-"Roe vs. Homer asks Candy and Wally for a ride. Theater or Video? John Irving's The Cider House Rules - the Book Versus the Movie. Over the past two weeks, I feel as though I have lived and breathed The Cider House Rules.
I have spent hours of each day diving into rural Maine with the characters I have grown to know and love reading, The Cider House Rules. Finally, after reading the entire novel, the next day I went down to my local video store and rented the movie. I sat down excited, anticipating the characters and stories of The Cider House Rules coming to life before my eyes. As I watched the movie, I discovered it was not quite what I had expected. Although the film version of The Cider House Rules accurately depicts many of the most touching moments of the novel, it changes the focus of the story. There are some similarities in what is presented in both forms.
The event that finally leads Homer to decide he will perform abortions is also the same in the film, as a young girl is the victim of an incestuous relationship and does not want to have the child. NYTimes. The Cider House Rules. Plot[edit] Wilbur's and Homer's lives are complicated by Wilbur also secretly being an abortionist.
Wilbur came to this work reluctantly, but he is driven by having seen the horrors of back-alley operations. Homer, upon learning Wilbur's secret, considers it morally wrong. As a young man, Homer befriends a young couple, Candy Kendall and Wally Worthington, who come to St. Cloud's for an abortion. Subsequently, Wally is found in Burma and returns home, paralyzed from the waist down. Many years later, teenaged Angel falls in love with Rose. A subplot follows the character Melony, who grew up alongside Homer in the orphanage. Background[edit] The story about Wally being shot down over Burma was based in part on that of Irving's biological father (whom he never met), who had been shot down over Burma and survived.[1] References[edit] Jump up ^ Mel Gussow (1998-04-28).
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