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What's the worst change made in a movie adaptation of a book? (lemmy.ca)

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[–] MrRazamataz@lemmy.razbot.xyz 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh, I quite liked the film but didn't know there was a book. What did they mess up?

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

In the book (short story?) the protagonist dies and the reason he is legend is that he was the last human and was like a boogeyman because of his hunting and killing them.

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Going over the wikipedia article as a refresher and I totally forgot about how he (author Richard Matheson) had some cool biological explanations for the vampirism.

From Wikipedia:

Neville additionally discovers that exposing vampires to direct sunlight or inflicting wide oxygen-exposing wounds causes the bacteria to switch from being anaerobic symbionts to aerobic parasites, rapidly consuming their hosts when exposed to air and thus giving them the appearance of instantly liquefying. However, he discovers the bacteria also produce resilient "body glue" that instantaneously seals blunt or narrow wounds, explaining how the vampires are bulletproof. Lastly, he deduces now that there are in fact two differently reacting types of vampires: conscious ones who are living with a worsening infection and undead ones who have died but been partly reanimated by the bacteria.

[–] MrRazamataz@lemmy.razbot.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

Oh interesting. Does indeed sound different from the film. Might give it a read.