• Andrzej3K [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      12 days ago

      Imo those changes were one of the few things about the film that truly slapped — the UK is quite capable of going full fash without a nuclear apocalypse

      • Riffraffintheroom [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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        12 days ago

        Even when I was a lib, it chaffed me that they changed the violent uprising/riot from the end of the book to blowing up a single empty building and taking to the streets in an unrealistically controlled, directed manner. It’s been a while, but I think the monologue even implied that the country’s government isnt even being overthrown, just reforming as a liberal democracy with this single bombing acting as a “warning” towards them.

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          11 days ago

          The ending of the original is quite pessimistic though iirc? I take your point, but imho giving it a big emotive movie-style ending wasn’t a terrible choice. See also, Fight Club