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Savages (2012)
Savages- loved the book, CONTAINS SPOILERS
I loved this book so much so I knew I was going to have to be forgiving. However, I was a little disappointed by the casting of Blake Lively because she seems to old and is definitely too tall to play O. But I feel that she still could have captured the character- the direction of Oliver Stone prevented that.
O is a fun-loving young lady who doesn't take anything seriously, not even during the first part of her kidnapping- she wants her own reality show. In the movie she is melancholy and the music is too. The book is hip and fun- what the hell was with the opera music. This story is not an epic drama-it's more like Chon should have been the narrator if there had to be one. This book has a matter-of-fact tone to it. The only character the reader really has sympathy for is the young kid in charge of O during the kidnapping.
Don't get me started on the ending. Two separate endings? Why? The whole point of the book is that it's either all 3 or none- there was never any other option.
With all of that said, I thought Salma Hayek was amazing and that the other actors did what they could with the tone they were given by Stone. Still glad I saw it.