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Originally Posted by HarryT
Dumbed down? You can't get much more violent than committing genocide, and that certainly wasn't dumbed down.
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I think a lot was lost in translation. Many elements from the book appeared in the movie - but seemed out of context, and undeveloped as ideas. I was rather disappointed, since there were so many bits which the movie included but never built up to or explained - they just occur out of nowhere (consider, for example, "the enemy's gate is down" which in the movie is shoved in with a single spoken line - with no experience or discussion having developed and lead to the idea.)
Of course this is almost always the case with a film translation - they have to be cliff notes of the story, sketches that leave most of the book out and include only the major events. In this case, however, I think too much was lost to call it the same story - or at least viewers who haven't read the book aren't watching the same story as those who have.