2/1/2024 0 Comments Darkest dungeon stack of books![]() ![]() In the book, the victim is Enrico Mantoli, a famous musical maestro who is in the middle of organising a music festival which it is hoped will bring much need employment and generate income for the town. None of these things matter to the story nor seem to make the slightest difference but perhaps there’s some subtlety I’m missing.Ī bigger and more significant change is in the name and character of the victim, but here it’s easier to guess why Jewison did it. Even more baffling to me is that in the book Virgil Tibbs works in the police department in Pasadena in California, while in the film he works in Philadelphia in Pennsylvania. As an ignorant Brit, I have no idea if there is some significance in this change of venue that may explain, or be caused by, the change in emphasis over the questions of race between the book and the film. The name of the town has changed from Wells to Sparta and we seem to have moved from South Carolina to Mississippi. However, on rewatching the film, there are actually lots of differences, some minor and frankly inexplicable to me, while others add together to make a pretty major change to the tone. I’d seen the film more than once before but quite long ago, so only remembered the main points of the plot while I was reading the book, and they seemed very similar. ![]()
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