16 Times Source Material Was Changed (For The Better)

While Hollywood loves to butcher source materials, sometimes it's for the good.
16 Times Source Material Was Changed (For The Better)

Stanley Kubrick used to have a propensity for causing controversy among the creators of the works he adapted. Whether or not his notorious film adaptation of ‘A Clockwork Orange’ truly did "glamorize gratuitous violence," as writer Anthony Burgess claimed, it significantly changed the original book.

Literature, dramas, as well as comics have always been a rich supply of inspiration for movies - just glance at Even a Christmas Carol, which was initially published in 1901 but has been adapted innumerable times since.

However, though some films meticulously imitate the original, others use it as a jumping off point, resulting in significant changes between both the source and its adaptation. These are amongst the most significant deviations from the classics that the movies have ever produced.

We frequently chastise Hollywood for mutilating the source material for their films. On its journey to becoming a CGI turd, The Lorax drastically distorted the original's meaning, The Hobbit added personalities and love tales, and Super Mario Bros. destroyed all of our young hearts.

However, those merciless Hollywood butchers may sometimes improve materials. For instance...

BANE became Batman's enemy BECAUSE HE USED TO DREAM OF A BAT. CONQUER THE FEAR IN YOUR HEART AND you MAY HAVE ANYTHING THAT YOU DESIRE. YOU WiLL BE SE
In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, we learn that Arnim Zola transferred his consciousness into a supercomputer. In the comics, Zola creates a dev
In the original story of CNDERIUA The evil stepmother cuts off the heel and toes of the stepsisters So their feet will fit the glass slippero
In the MCU, Vision is created by uploading Iron Man's AIJ.A.R.V.I.S. into a synthetic body. Vision's comic book origin is much weirder than that. His
GONE NID the with Scarlett O'Hara's life-long romantic obsession, Ashley Wilkes, was a member of the KKK.
In the fairy tale, Rapunzel's parents sold her off. In the Brothers Grimm story, Rapunzel's pregnant mother craves rapunzel plants in Gothel's garden
BIG HERO IN THE ORIGINAL COMICS, HIRO WAS A CHILD PRODIGY WHO WAS FORCED TO FIGHT IN ORDER TO SAVE HIS ABDUCTED MOTHER FROM EVERWRAITH, AN ENTITY MADE
2005's Fantastic Four took many liberties with the mythos of Marvel's first family. The changes weren't all bad, FOR instance, it made their exposure
In Thor, Odin banishes Thor to Earth and strips him of his powers. In the comics, Odin banishes him to Earth and traps him in the body of a crippled m
Beauty Beast and the ARE FIRST COUSINS. In Mme. de Villeneuve's original story, the Beast is the son of a king and a queen, while Beauty's real parent
AFTER LOSING HIS COMPANY TO OBADAH STANE, TONY STARK GOES ON A YEAR-LONG HOMELESS BENDER. cues euoe m OYING. M DOnT MATTE One of the bleakest story ar
In The Princess and the Frog, the prince's curse is broken by a romantic kiss. In the original Grimm fairy tale, the prince's curse is broken when he'
Shrek in was hatched a pit and then abandoned there by his parents. NO WONDER HE HAS TRUST ISSUES.
Originally, CRACKED CO Harvey COM Dent is fascinated by coins due to abuse from his father. In The Dark Knight, Harvey Dent has his father's lucky co
In The Little Mermaid, Ariel's voice is taken away by Ursula. In the original fairy tale, her tongue gets cut off. CRACKED.COM
THE MCU FALCON IS A RETIRED USAF PARARESCUEMAN. FALCON'S TRUE ORIGIN IS HE WAS GIVEN THE ABILITY TO CONTROL BIRDS WHEN THE RED SKULL GROT FUSED HIS BR

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