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In the Movie |
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The stories are presented in chronological order. |
The stories are intercut and presented simultaneously. |
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Five major characters have a comet shaped birthmark on their shoulders. |
Six of the characters share a common birthmark but it is on different body parts.
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Adam Ewing and Dr. Goose have separate dinners with Mr. D’Arnoq and Reverend Horrox. |
The dinners are combined. |
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Eva plays a large role in Frobisher's story. |
She is not present.
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Frobisher has an affair with Jocasta. |
This doesn't happen. |
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Sixsmith's death is made to look like a suicide. |
He is murdered by Bill Smoke.
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The cover up at Swannekke was done to sell more reactors. |
It causes an accident to create more need for fossil fuel. |
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Hillary V. Hush wrote Half lives. |
It was written by Luisa-Rey's neighbor, Javier.
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Timothy’s brother Denny dies. |
He does not. |
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Chang and Boardman Mephi removed Sonmi from Papa Song’s. |
Hae-Joo does it.
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This doesn't happen. |
Sonmi is captured by Unanimity. |
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Union was created by Unanimity in order to bring the people together. |
They are a real organization.
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Zachry is between nine and sixteen years old. |
Tom Hanks plays the role as an adult. |
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Zachry's father is killed and his brother is kidnapped. |
His brother and nephew are both murdered.
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Adam Ewing lands at several islands during his voyage across the pacific ocean. |
Only one landing is show where he meets Dr. Goose. |
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Ewing meets Horrox while he stops at an island during his long trip. |
He meets him at the first island.
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Adam hikes into a dormant volcano and finds several corpses. |
He doesn't. Zachry and Meronym find bodies during their hike. |
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Ewing is on his trip to find the beneficiary of a will. |
He is on a trip to sell a slave.
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Vyvyan Ayrs lives in a mansion in Belgium. |
It is in Scotland. |
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Frobisher writes letters to Sixsmith, but they are never together. |
They are seen together in bed.
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Luisa's mother is part of the story. She is from high society. |
She doesn't appear. |
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Luisa and Joe confront Bill Smoke on a sailboat. |
This happens on the streets of San Francisco.
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Cavendish has a secretary named Mrs. Latham who helps him. |
She doesn't appear. |
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This doesn't happen. Georgette is portrayed as having some mental problems. |
Timothy had an affair with Georgette, his brother's wife.
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Timothy suffers a stroke. |
He doesn't. |
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This doesn't happen. |
Timothy rekindles his lost relationship with Ursula.
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Yoona-939 tells Sonmi-451 a fairy tale about Timothy Cavendish. She later watches the movie version with Hae-Joo. |
Yoona-939 shows Sonmi-451 the video. |
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There is heavy use of a made up dialect in "Sloosha's Crossin" |
Many more standard english words are used to make the conversations clear. Regular english is used to converse with the home base.
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Son-mi was used for thesis |
Not shown in the movie |
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Ayrs' daughter |
Not in the movie
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Eva discusses things with Sexsmith before being killed. Enough so that she knew something was up. |
The do not talk about things. |
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Eva goes to the power plant for a press conference and not for an specific interview. She sneaks into Sexsmiths office while pretneding to go to the bathroom. |
She is on a tour and waiting near Sexsmiths office, sees it and goes in.
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Frobisher never steals the bicycle he has it lent to him by the police |
He steal the bike. |
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Ayers wife is in the bedroom the night Ayers comes into Frobishers room to compose. |
There is no reference to Ayers wife in the scene.
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Timothy Cavendish does not talk to his brother when he calls from the nursing home. |
He talks to his sister in law. His brother died and his sister in law appears to have dementia |
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Timothy Cavendish gets into an argument with his other escapees about escaping where he alludes to his Scottish friend being a drunk |
There is no fight.
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IN the book, en root to his 'escape destination' Timothy Cavendish stops at the house of an old girlfriend and is caught by the womans grandson. |
It does not happen. |
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In Sloosha's Crossin Story there is no reference to trading with the Prescients or other towns |
Trade was important.
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In Sloosha's Crossin Story the townsfolk go on a voyage to a trade event in another town where the town is invaded and many people were killed and taken prisoner |
This never happened in the movie. The event appeared to take place after the Observatory event. |
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There are many references to Somni and a church where religious artifacts represent souls |
No reference in the movie.
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In the Somni series Somni is found to be intelligent and goes to school |
Never happens in the book. |
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In Adam Ewings story, Autua commits suicide as the Capt sexually assaults him every night. |
No reference in the movie.
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In Sloosha's Crossin Story there is no reference to trading with the Prescients or other towns |
Trade was important. |
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In Sloosha's Crossin Story the townsfolk go on a voyage to a trade event in another town where the town is invaded and many people were killed and taken prisoner |
This never happened in the movie. The event appeared to take place after the Observatory event.
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There are many references to Somni and a church where religious artifacts represent souls |
No reference in the movie. |
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In the Somni series Somni is found to be intelligent and goes to school |
Never happens in the book.
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In Adam Ewings story, Autua commits suicide as the Capt sexually assaults him every night. |
No reference in the movie. |