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docterd262004
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The Old Man and the Sea (1990)
Pretty Good but a few problems
WARNING!!! SPOILERS!!! I have seen this movie and well it isn't the best movie but it was pretty good. I also read the book and there are lots of differences. The book and the movie starts off as Santiago not catching a fish for 85, or so, days. But his luck is about to change. The characters are different and some of the conflicts are different because there is a part of the book where Santiago starts talking to the sea gull. They tooked that part it out of the movie maybe because they couldn't get the bird to land. But the movie was pretty good at making the scenes look pretty good because there are lots of movies that look really fake. The movie was kind of different from the book because in the book Santiago had dreams of lions on the beach and in the movie, Santiago had just flash backs about when he was getting. The only flash back that they had in the book and in the movie was the arm wrestling match back when he was young. Also in the movie, Santiago had a sister that was living in the city, and in the book, Santiago was lonely other then the boy that was with him all the time. The boy in the book was named Manolin but in the movie, it was Manalo (I think). But the only fake part in the movie was when the sharks had eaten the marlin. At first the marlin only had pieces of the body taken off and then when Santiago was heading towards the shore, the marlin's bones were the only thing showing and his head. The bones look like pieces of cardboard sticking out. The new parts of the movie such as the sister did kind had meaning to the book because in the book, he was lonely, and in the movie the sister didn't do anything to try to help him. So it's like Santiago was lonely. The movie did help me understand the book better because at first I thought that Santiago was only fishing with a piece of the fishing line, but he did use a bamboo stick as a fishing rod. (Even though it didn't make a different because he still cut his hand).