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All quiet on the western front Book vs Movie
(sorry for spelling mistakes)
So i have just watched All quiet on the western front (2022) and it was good. I liked it. But if you didn’t the movie was inspiered (and there’s a reason why i am not saying based on) by the book All Quiet on the Western front by Erich Maria Remarque.the book is inspiered by Remarque’s time in WW1. And i have read the book. Which is the reason that i even watched the Movie. And liked it. It was also good.
But here’s the thing. The movie and book are REALLY different and i wanna talk about. It doesn’t mean the movie was bad. Like i said earlier i enjoyed the movie but i just wanna talk about the differcens
Btw is has been over a year since i read the book and i don’t own it. I lent the book so sorry for mistakes.
SPOILER FOR BOTH THE 2022 MOVE AND THE ORIGINAL BOOK
So the first differcens is the beginning.
The movie
In the movie we see paul getting inspired to enlist in the army with his whole school? we see him get enlisted and the promtly sent into the war front.
The book
we get told that they get double rations today by paul (this also happens in the movie just at the end/ last 30 mins i think) because the lost half of their betalion. When then get introdoced to some characters. Kat is in the book as well in the movie. We also meet Paul classmate who is in the hospital and has lost the leg (He doesn’t make it BTW) Someone else ask for his boots since he won’t be needing them. Which is fucked op but the boots are giving away.
The next big differcens is that there is a charcter in the book but not the movie
Himmelstross is an post office in Paul town. He some how gets a high postion and he trains pauls classmates before they get sent out ( this doesn’t happen in the movie) Himmelstross is a total dick and absolutly power hungry. He at some point gets actully sent out to the front where paul and the others (those who survive) make fun of him. Tho himmelstross redemis himself a bit by saving one of Paul’s classmate but before that he is a total coward. (I’m not sure if he dies but i am pretty sure.
This is a scene in the book which doesn’t happen at all in the movie.
At some point in the book Paul gets sent home on break. Everything is the same in his home town nothings change. Whing unerves Paul. You’d think Paul’s happy but when he’s home is kinda miserable. Everybody is glorifying the war and nobody is notice that paul is in pain.everybody is asking when are they winning the war and stuff- The only who gets him is his mother who is sick. Anyway paul regrets going home. which is sad because he is fighting to get home.
the last thing i wanna talk about is pauls death in the end.
The movie
stabbed to that heart after saving a younger kid. Died just before the end of the war.
The book
He gets shot after seeing a butterfly( i am not sure) on the barricade i think. When he dies we see that he had something in his hands. A note saying All quiet on the western front (this is where the tital comes from) this also happened a few days before the end of the war i think?
Personaly i liked pauls death on the book.
There’re diffently more differences but these are the ones i remember and think are inportend.
tl:dr there a big differences between the movie and book but both are good stories and perfect to tell that war is hell.
Remember the days of separate church and state…?