Books are like creamily iced tiered chocolate cakes: rich, layered, deep. Meanwhile, movies, especially when based on books, are more like lemon-glaze angel food cakes, delightful and pleasing, yet not necessarily as filling as their densely layered counterparts. Having savored both the story and movie of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, I have found the movie more palatable because of it’s sublime characterization of Emma Bloom, condensed yet quality plot, and impressive ending.
The sugar necessary to quality cakes, Emma Bloom is an incredibly mysterious yet warm character, a young woman in her mid-teens with the “peculiarity” of control over air. In the movie, she is characterized as intelligent and warm-hearted, with extraordinary and impressive powers, whereas in the book, in a very cliché manner, she is characterized as over-dramatic, temperamental, and even pertinacious. While the book offers more detail of interactions between Emma and the other characters, she seems conceited in many instances. The movie offers a more reasonable, intriguing, and relatable …show more content…
A well delivered exposition provides a background for Jake, who is best described as a socially awkward teen whose parents lack genuine empathy. The gruesome death of his grandfather is followed by a series of rising actions that lead him farther and farther into the world of peculiars, or humans with astounding abilities like complete invisibility, revival of the dead, power over plants. Unlike in the novel, the plot is not overly drawn out. Viewers spend a majority of the movie in the edges of their seats or gasping in awe, fascinated and haunted by every scene. The mysteries are well woven and unwrap at the perfect moments, until the climax is reached, when the peculiar children choose heroism over cowardice, leading to a fantastic
The sugar necessary to quality cakes, Emma Bloom is an incredibly mysterious yet warm character, a young woman in her mid-teens with the “peculiarity” of control over air. In the movie, she is characterized as intelligent and warm-hearted, with extraordinary and impressive powers, whereas in the book, in a very cliché manner, she is characterized as over-dramatic, temperamental, and even pertinacious. While the book offers more detail of interactions between Emma and the other characters, she seems conceited in many instances. The movie offers a more reasonable, intriguing, and relatable …show more content…
A well delivered exposition provides a background for Jake, who is best described as a socially awkward teen whose parents lack genuine empathy. The gruesome death of his grandfather is followed by a series of rising actions that lead him farther and farther into the world of peculiars, or humans with astounding abilities like complete invisibility, revival of the dead, power over plants. Unlike in the novel, the plot is not overly drawn out. Viewers spend a majority of the movie in the edges of their seats or gasping in awe, fascinated and haunted by every scene. The mysteries are well woven and unwrap at the perfect moments, until the climax is reached, when the peculiar children choose heroism over cowardice, leading to a fantastic