we were originally expected the movie to be at least 2 hours, minus the credit roll. However, it was chopped down to nearly 90 minutes due to rush production.
In the book, Artemis's sick mother is a crucial anchor to his humanity, as he must balance his criminal scheming with caring for her. But in the Movie, Disney goes for the missing mom approach with Angeline fowl being deceased.
Either way, Artemis Fowl immediately joins such theme-squandering examples as the Ender's Game movie, which sacrificed much of the book's empathetic message in search of a kinetic space romp, and the Golden Compass movie, which removed much of the book's religious criticism for fear of offending viewers.
In the movie, conversely, they develop trust after a single conversation because their fathers, one wildly different from his book series portrayal, one invented for the movie, were allies. It certainly seems easier to just tell the audience that two characters are friends, instead of actually showing that progression over time.
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Yongma Lee
Ignored the plot that's prove to please the audience
that decision was perhaps most glaring in Artemis Fowl, both because that sensation of jumping around jumbled the various character motivations in addition to the plots and because the book plot should have worked perfectly well as a movie without any meddling. Audiences adore Die Hard, and audiences adore magic, and audiences adore heist stories%u
Artemis Fowl is no different. The book climaxes with the "coup de grace" to Artemis's grand criminal conspiracy, which involves feints and double bluffs and receives plenty of clever foreshadowing throughout the story. The movie instead climaxes with an explosion that seems certain to kill Artemis, yet amid all the chaos and difficul
The movie instead climaxes with an explosion that seems certain to kill Artemis, yet amid all the chaos and difficult-to-track action, somehow, he escapes destruction. It's unclear how and it's unclear why, but it happens. And isn't that fun?
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Yongma Lee
removing Hong Chau's character and entire scene from the final cut
