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Differences between book and film
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• In the book, all characters are American and the story takes place in Maryland. In the film it takes place in Romania and some characters have English, French or Romanian accents. Vivian and Aiden are the only characters with American accents. • In the novel, none of the wolves' eyes change to gold when they smell the scent of blood. • Vivian's mother Esme is alive and her father dies in the novel; in the film both her parents are dead. In the book Vivian is an only child, but in the film it is shown that she had siblings, who were killed along with her parents. • In the film Vivian blames herself for her family's death; she explains to Aiden that her paw prints were found by the enemy, leading them to her family. In the book, only her father dies and it was caused, albeit indirectly, by the Five. • Aiden, Vivian, and the Five are all high school students in the book. In the film, Aiden appears to be older than Vivian, who is nineteen, and the Five appear to be in their late teens to early twenties. • In the book, Astrid and Gabriel were never mates. Rafe is not their son nor is he Vivian's cousin. Astrid is not Vivian's aunt and is actually the main antagonist in the book, but in the movie she takes on the role of Esme, Vivan's mother in the book. • Rafe and the rest of the Five romantically pursue Vivan in the novel, and she and Rafe had dated at some point before the story takes place. This is not mentioned in the film. • Rafe and Astrid are lovers in the novel; in the film they are mother and son. • In the film there is no Ordeal between the male loup-garoux, and no Ordeal between the female loup-garoux. Gabriel is the leader from the start, instead of participating in the Ordeal as he did in the book. In the film leadership of the pack is based on bloodline rather than triumph. • In the beginning of the novel, a character named Axel - a friend of the Five and Vivian's former romantic interest - was mentioned several times. Axel does not appear in the film. • In the novel, it was Axel, and not Rafe, who murdered a girl because she rejected him. • Vivian has an Uncle Rudy, Esme's brother, in the novel. In the film, she has no uncle. • Vivian works at a chocolate and sweets shop in the film; she has no such job in the book. • In the novel, when the pack leader takes a mate, she is his mate for life unless another female loup-garoux challenges and defeats her. In the film, the leader takes a new mate every seven years. • Vivian is presumably a gray and brown loup-garou in the book. However, in the film a white wolf was chosen to depict Vivian in her wolf-form. • In the book, there is no prophecy. • The book mentions an elderly female loup-garou, Aunt Persia, who cures every ailment the loup-garoux may have including Vivian's silver poisoning. In the film, she is not mentioned and an old pharmacist gives Vivian an antidote. • In the book, Aiden gives Vivian a silver pentagram, which he later melts down into the bullets he shot Vivian and Rafe with. In the film, Aiden owns a pentagram necklace that he uses to kill Rafe. • In the book, silver can only kill a loup-garou if it enters his blood stream. In the film, a loup-garou need only touch it for poisoning to occur. • In the book, Vivian's parents had been the leaders of the pack before Gabriel, but the film never mentions this. • When Vivian reveals her secret to Aiden in the book, he is terrified and wants nothing to do with her. In the film, Aiden initially feels that Vivian betrayed him and leaves her, but he reconciles with her after she saves him from the other loup-garoux. • In the novel, the pack members shape-shift into their alternative forms. In the film, the transformation is much more spiritual, depicting Vivian and the others as humans who almost seem to ascend into a higher (or at least different) state of spiritual being, glowing mystically as they transform into wolves. • In the book, Vivian enjoys changing into her wolf form, and does so frequently. In the film, she struggles to prevent the change and only does so when necessary to save Aiden from the hunt. • Gabriel is twenty-four in the novel; in the film he is of indeterminate age, though clearly old enough to have fathered Rafe with Astrid. • In the book Gabriel truly loves Vivian, but in the film he wants to marry her to fulfill the prophecy. • In the film, Vivian shows a great amount of resistance to pack tradition and to Gabriel's laws, whereas in the book she displays general care and affection toward her pack. • In the film the pack participate in special hunts, which take place in a forest. The prey is human, usually one who has done wrong to the pack, and is told that he must run through the forest in order to win his life back - if he passes the river in the forest then he can survive, if he is caught by a loup-garoux then he is killed by it. In the novel, however, there is no such practice since Gabriel does not advocate the killing of humans. From wiki :)
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Ultimately, Aiden is portrayed as weak, fearful, unfaithful, and intolerant: he dumps Vivian and immediately starts seeing another girl.
Gabriel represents the best elements of the wolf pack: strength, loyalty, pack pride.
The movie portrays the wolf pack as evil, out of control: I think the movie caved in to the short-sided romantic view that love conquers all. Why couldn't the readers and viewers see that, in the book version, ultimately, love did conquer all? Vivian found love from someone who accepted her for who she was, claws and all?
I, for one, think there should be a sequel to this book: I'd like to see how Gabriel and Vivian learn to adjust to their new life, together, in Vermont. Just a thought!
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