5/27/2023 0 Comments Love Story by Erich SegalNothing much is changed except the last meeting between Oliver and his father Hiller felt the movie should end with the boy alone, and he was right. Both the screenplay and the novel were written at the same time, I understand, and if you've read the book, you've essentially read the screenplay. The interesting thing is that Hiller has saved the movie without substantially changing anything in the book. Things like color, character, personality, detail, and background. I think it has something to do with the quiet taste of Arthur Hiller, its director, who has put in all the things that Segal thought he was being clever to leave out. The fact is, however, that the film of Love Story is infinitely better than the book. Segal's prose style is so revoltingly coy - sort of a cross between a parody of Hemingway and the instructions on a soup can - that his story is fatally infected. I was so put off by Erich Segal's writing style, in fact, that I hardly wanted to see the movie at all. I wanted to discover why five and a half million people had actually bought it. I read Love Story one morning in about fourteen minutes flat, out of simple curiosity.
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