Of course, Homer later breaks this promise.

She introduces him to his first sexual experience and feelings of love, even eliciting a promise from him never to leave her. Melony is an older girl Homer meets in the orphanage. Eliminating & Creating CharactersĪ significant and powerful character in the novel is eliminated from the film. Homer is the one who directly discovers Rose Rose is pregnant by Mr. In the film, Homer only stays away from the orphanage for 15 months, Wally and Homer do not become best friends, the significance of the affair between Homer and Candy is diminished, and the two do not have a child together. In the novel, Homer has many more adventures than in the film – there is just no time for them in the movie. Homer’s and Candy’s son, Angel, falls in love with Rose Rose and discovers she has been impregnated by her own father. Wally becomes aware of Homer and Candy’s tryst but remains friends with Homer. In the book, Homer remains away from the orphanage for 15 years, during which time, Wally and Homer become best friends, Wally and Candy marry, and Homer and Candy have an affair and a son together. Irving removed any extraneous material that did not convey the central conflict or move Homer’s goal forward. The plot of the novel is far more complex than the film adaptation. What else could I have showed you, Homer? The only thing I can teach you is what I know! In every life, you’ve got to be of use. Larch, Homer’s disdain for performing abortions. Larch’s willingness to provide abortions and his personal feelings on the morale doctrine of the day, and establishes in the first scene of dialogue between Homer and Dr. He uses a montage over the opening credits to reveal Dr. Irving sets up the central conflict immediately. His goal in the book and the script remains the same: to avoid performing abortions (though he has be trained how) and to see and experience something more of the world than just the confines of St. In the film, Homer becomes the main character.

Larch delivered, portrayed by Toby Maguire in the film) who refuses to perform abortions. Larch (played onscreen by Michael Caine, who won an Oscar for this film for Best Supporting Actor), an orphanage physician who performs illegal abortions, and his protégé, Homer Wells (an orphan Dr. The novel revolves around two main characters: Dr. He achieved this brilliantly – the script won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay – by focusing the screenplay on the central conflict. Screenwriter John Irving had the formidable task of condensing his own 550-page novel into a 136-page script for the 1999 film The Cider House Rules.

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