Sometimes art, whether it is music, writing, or a poignant movie, is just too needlessly complicated. If there�s too much going on�too many instruments, too many color patterns, too many characters to keep track of�a movie, or album, or painting, or novel might suffer from the excess of �too.� We�ve probably all seen a movie and wished it were 40 minutes shorter or read a book and thought, damn, this really could have been condensed and lost nothing. Sara Gruen�s Water for Elephants is one of those books, but Richard LaGravenese�s screenplay does not suffer from the same overindulgence.
Because of this, Water For Elephants is one of those few magical times when a movie is better than the book it is based on, when all the little details that generally engender people to love a book are stripped away in order to make a better product. We may lose some characters and some turns-of-phrase we loved while reading; but as a result of the streamlining, we get a story that encourages us to better believe in its characters and a plot that makes a whole lot more sense. With this said, LaGravenese and director Francis Lawrence really worked to stay true to the core of Gruen�s ideas, even if they tweaked some things. Michael Mann could learn from their abridging.
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