Talk:A Wrinkle in Time (2003 film)

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Y'know, I really don't think there was a consensus about doing this, although there may be a Wikipedia-wide movement in this direction for all I know. Frankly, I'm not at all sure the TV movie is notable enough to merit a full article. The main points of interest have to do with its divergence from the book and the fact that L'Engle turned down many previous attempts to make a film of it. Hmm. I guess I can come up with some sourced material to flesh this out a bit. Karen | Talk | contribs 10:02, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

boring movie —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.6.70.164 (talk) 23:57, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Is A Long Book

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Removed section: Comparison with novel

I've removed the following section as whole-cloth original research.

Comparison with novel

Among the many differences between the book and the movie are different first names for Meg's parents, and implied identification of Dr. Murry's colleague Hank (a character barely mentioned in the book) as The Man with Red Eyes. This identification is made explicit in one of the deleted scenes that is included on the DVD, which shows the disappearance of both Jack Murry and Hank from their lab. Hank is played by Kyle Secor, who plays the Man With Red Eyes in the later scenes. The deleted scenes also show Calvin in Dr. Murry's lab, which contradicts Calvin's unfamiliarity with Meg's father in the novel.

The Camazotz sequences are also quite different, with Charles Wallace succumbing to IT due to intellectual curiosity, and Meg and Calvin taking an active approach fighting the enforced conformity of the planet's inhabitants. The movie theater scene (advertising such films as Casablanc IT and IT Force) is additional to the novel, as is Meg's crowd-inspiring act of civil disobedience with a basketball at the end of the film.

The two versions are roughly contemporary in setting, with respect to the release date of each. The novel, published in 1962, is impossible to date chronologically (the author asserts that it is set in "Kairos", which she defines in the front of the Many Waters hardback as "real time, pure numbers with no measurement"), but seems to be set in the 1960s or very early 1970s. The TV movie, based on clothing styles, technology, etc., has a present day timeframe, sometime around 2001 or later.

Meg is given a more contemporary and attractive look in the film than in the novel, with neither glasses nor braces, and only a passing indication that she believes herself to be "ugly". Calvin, too, is visually different, with brown hair instead of red. Charles Wallace has brown hair and eyes, as opposed to blond and blue respectively in the novel. Even IT is significantly different, a room-sized writhing mass resembling a human cerebrum as opposed to the book's "oversized brain, just enough larger than normal to be completely revolting and terrifying."

Significantly, religious elements of the novel are largely omitted. For example, the name of Jesus is not mentioned as one who fought against evil; and when Mrs. Whatsit asks Charles Wallace to translate the song of the centaur-like creatures on Uriel (which in the book is essentially a psalm), he simply says "it's about joy".

It hasn't the barest of citable references, and therefore cannot remain in the article. Find cites and it can return in some form to the article. It cannot in its current state. - Jack Sebastian (talk) 21:05, 6 November 2012 (UTC)