![]() ![]() While in the novel she is cartoonishly evil, she is painted to be much more understandable in the film: a protective mother who is also the victim of tradition. ![]() In the movie, Michael is a tortured trope, a man who can't stand that his wife wears "the money pants in the family." In the book, though still villainous, he also seems to be the only person with his head above the water: "I can't watch these people spend a gazillion dollars on a wedding when half the world is starving," he tells his wife.īut the biggest change of all is to the character of Nick's mother, Eleanor. One character who gets a makeover in the film is Michael, a not-quite-as-wealthy man married to an extremely rich socialite. Also gone is the bachelor party's visit to a dogfight in Macau. Cut is a scene where Nick and his friends spontaneously jet to Australia on a Cessna Citation X to get a proper flat white latte. ![]() In fact, it's telling what the film changes. While the joke works in the film, delivered by the buffoonish father of Rachel's friend, it is ripped straight out of the novel, which is far more over-the-top than Chu's adaptation. ![]()
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