Tommorrow when the war began, is a series of a group go young Australian teenaged who go camping and miss out on a military invasion.They all decide to stay hidden and stand up for themselves. They try many risk-full attempts to try and try to stall and mess around with the invaders before they controlled the country.
The book has a very engaging writing style, this helps set scene, stronger sense of emotion or feeling for characters. I also found this book to have a strong kind of similarity to my setting of where I live to what the book had. When I was reading the book I was automatically thinking of Kalbarri and its similarities to Wirraiwe. Cobblers bay made me think of the river mouth, Kalbarri’s national park reminded me of hell and just as well was the town wirraiwe the small country town so much similar to Kalbarri. The movie though destroys all of those similarities to what you have thought of in your head and could relate to with real life situations or people, places etc. Once you’ve watched the movie or the story being played out for you it is very hard to re-create the same kind of setting and everything else.
The movie was actually kind of upsetting again because I noticed how there were a lot of lines and identical scenes written just like the book. There is no obvious tweaking and re-creation from the Hollywood directors. And I always thought movies were always ‘tried’ to make better then the book. I mean that’s half the reason why people would make movies based on books.
When John Marsden was writing the book it wasn’t him writing it it was a character he created to narrate the book. Everything is from here loin tot view (Ellie). The movie I guess changed (her in the book) writing journal entires. Though in the movie it was video entires probably not a huge thing they changed but it was something that changed. Also probably the only other thing that was different from book to movie. Was Homer and Kevin’s snake scene.
This scene was kind of hard to not realise the switch of character. but I only realised this until it was pointed out. But the scene is still the same, basally in the movie Kevin goes over to his sleeping bag and there is a snake in it. Though in the book its Homers bag and Homer has to deal with the snake.
After comparing and contrasting the film and book. I would definitely prefer the book then the movie. Mostly because it had more detail and explanation to certain things that the movie failed to pick up on. The book also gives you your own certain kind of mental film, your own style of characters, settings and how emotion and things effect come characters in the book.
