Stone Angel Characters

Though I know it is easy to be critical and it is a hard task to make a movie from a book, I think "The Stone Angel" was a poor representation of the book, almost worst than "Eragon" and that's something.

One of the biggest problems I found with the movie was its characters; each and every one of the novel's characters was either missing or incorrectly portrayed.

Bram is a good example of this, if you could say that he was even in the movie. When I thought of Bram from the novel I saw a large, untidy, filthy mountain man, not some cowboy straight from a Western romance. In the movie, Hagar's marriage almost seems justified by Bram's appearance rather than being a rebellion against her farther thus taking away another example of Hagar's pride. The director probably did this to attract a larger audience, but I think he would have been better off adding to John's appearance rather than Bram's.

Another character with serious issues was Murray Lees, or rather the "Murray character" since Murray himself was not in the movie. In the novel, Murray was a character that could relate to Hagar. Also, despite the fact that Murray had vices (mainly drinking), he has a reason, his grief, and we the reader's can sympathise with him. The "Murray character" however was nothing than a sexually motivated, drug smoking ne'er-do-well punk with nothing relative to Hagar besides a scandalous, sexual relationship loosely similar to John and Arlene's. I don't know why the director made this change as Murray would have only cost him five more minutes or so.

If anyone has other ideas about characters left out or modified, feel free to comment.

Mark