The Kite Runner Movie Comparison

Khaled Hossieni, author of “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, published his first novel “The Kite Runner” in 2003, while he was in medical school. His novel, “the Kite Runner” went on to be an international bestseller, and stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for more than one-hundred weeks. Four years later, The Kite Runner, directed by Marc Foster, won the BFCA Critic’s Choice Award for Best Young Actor. Although Marc’s film was a beautiful piece in itself, as far as an effective adaptation of the novel goes, the film really left out and altered some major details; such as the characters, plot, and emotions This can lead to confusion and less enjoyment for someone who has already read the novel.
Marc has had a decent try at portraying the …show more content…
It felt like he was shown by a much smaller actor, and it didn’t portray the intimidating effect of his presence. Foster left some major detail out of his characters, which could have been because of not finding actors that match the description. The portrayal of actors definitely contributed to the characters’ appeal.
Foster’s film kept true to most of the story line, but left out some key parts in the plot. In the novel, Hassan has his cleft lip fixed for his birthday, which showed Amir’s jealousy over the attention Baba was giving him. This showed development and a change between the father-son relationship. This did not happen in the film, because Hassan never had a cleft lip to start with, causing a major plot …show more content…
However, the same level of emotion was missing at certain points from Foster's film. For example, when Hassan is first introduced, he is asked how it was possible that a Hazara was Amir’s friend. At this point, Amir had an internal moment when he questioned “whether Hasan was his friend or not. Thought that?” (Hosseini 44). This let us see Amir’s inner struggles on whether Hassan was considered a friend. Finally, there is one of the most exciting scenes in the whole novel; Amir and Assef's fight. When I read this scene in the novel, I was glued for a whole seven minutes, re-reading the scene. The fact that Foster’s film did not show all the details in this part had me feeling like I missed out, like the scene in which Assef says, “then the end that I'll take to my grave. I was on the floor laughing…” (Hosseini 303). This fight was supposed to show an intense life and death situation. Amir was near his end, before Shorab stepped in with a slingshot. Amir was hurt very badly and had to go to the hospital to recover. In the film, he had enough strength after the fight to climb a wall and run