Review of Papillon

Papillon (1973)
5/10
Good film but book is even better...
13 August 2008
Warning: Spoilers
Who reads book Henri Chariere: Pappilon know that in film was many many lies, wrong situations, writings and even more.... I know that they cant film everything but if you wanna see "scenes" from book then you will not see them.....only the main ones. Same thing with actors, in book when Pappilon is at Georgetown he looks like 28-30 years old but in film when he is jumping to sea he is looks like 50 years old man with white hair. Another thing.....film is showing only painful parts of his life (exemption of indians). The worse part was when Pappilon escape with Dega and Maturete, in book it was Pappilon, Maturete and Clausiot. Then when they stopped on tropical forest everything happened on 5 minutes (no ants, no 7 days of camping, nothing....just 5 minutes of lies). It will be better for you when you first look the film, then read the book and then again film. You will see differences. I am very disappointed.... :( (sorry for my poor English)
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