Movie vs. Book

Rating: 10/10 (21 February 2012)

I understand the need to condense a book down to a time suitable for a movie, and I understand what is meant by "screenplay adapted from the book by ...". But some changes make no sense, and in my opinion are an insult to the book author. In TTSS, for example, the Guillam character is portrayed as being gay. But in the book, he is not only heterosexual, but is a renown skirt chaser in the Circus. I do not understand the need for the movie to make this change. It did not matter in the story. Was it done to make it more "relevant" to current Hollywood standards? To be more "PC". But I thought the movie was excellent. It required paying attention, just as the book did. No insults to our intelligence, no pandering to the teenagers with violence, explosions, car chases. An entertaining movie.