A Monster Calls Movie Analysis

A Monster Calls: When a bad book becomes a good movie
“I wish I had a hundred years, a hundred years I could give to you.” Something Conor’s Mum said to Conor when she was laying in the hospital bed in “A Monster Calls”. This happened in both the book and the movie, but way more emotion came out when it happened in the book. Conor got to develop things within himself and speak for himself more often because Lily was not in the book, and he developed a stronger relationship with his family. The intensity with the monster was always high and keeping the book and the movie alike by adding that high degree of excitement. The thing to top off then movie was when we find out secrets about Conor’s Mum, that left everyone with chills. Overall, the movie, “A Monster Calls” achieved more than the book, because the movie was able to relate to the book enough but add things that were needed to make it way better. It also took out things that weren't needed that were useless.

First, with Lily not being in the movie at all but being in the book, there was scenes that happened in the book but not in the movie. By this happening, it changed a lot of things in the movie and was a very huge difference. This was a good thing that she was not in the movie …show more content…
So people wondered why she said that the yew tree was their friend. I never thought much of it until we found out something very interesting and new to end the movie.After Conor’s Mum passed he found something. It was one of his Mum’s sketch books. One that he’s never seen before. Conor opened it and started to look threw it. He noticed that there was pictures of the monster. They ended off the movie by letting all viewers know that Conor’s Mum knew the monster. He helped her through everything when her grandpa was dying. This ending was very different and a way to have viewers who read the book first, something new and