Review of East of Eden (1955) by N.a 6 — 02 Oct 2013
The novel East of Eden by John Steinbeck is a great book with a wonderful story. The movie on the other hand was messy and missing the key elements of the book which made it very hard to follow. To be fair if you watched the movie without reading the book it probably seemed alright.
This movie was missing a lot of the key concepts of the book and important details. The movie started out with Cal following Kate around but if you didn't read the book you wouldn't know who they were or what was happening.
Another problem about this movie is they completely missed the themes of the book. They sliced up the book, selected a few random parts, added a few new details of their own, and just threw it all together.
What happened to the very important Timshel? Where was Lee? He was a major character and very important to the story. All the biblical allusions got left behind too along with the first 3/4 of the book.
Like I said before though, if you had just watched the movie and not read the book the movie was probably decent and interesting but at the same time confusing.
This review of East of Eden (1955) was written by N.a 6 on 02 Oct 2013.
East of Eden has generally received very positive reviews.
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