Slumdog Millionaire- MOVIE Entry

This movie was absolutely amazing! I loved every single moment of it. I am usually picky when it comes to films, but this movie actually caught my attention. I would recommend it to anyone; its truly breath-taking and lets you go through all different feelings possible. There is a mixture of adventure, action, romance, suspense and comedy. Slumdog Millionaire is officially one of my top 5 favorite movies.

The book and the movies contain many differences and similarities.

Major differences:

• The movie provides more romance than the book.
• The characters in the book have different names and goals in the movie.
• In the book "Ram's" mother or family leaves him at the door step of a priest, in the movie his mother gets attack by Muslims and dies.
• In the movie Salim and Jamal(Ram) are actually brothers.
• In the movie Jamal(Ram) is trying to win the game show as he is in the book, but in the movie there is a twist to it. Jamal only does the game show mainly because he wants to get in touch with the love of his life Latika.

Connection: Text to Text- What Jamal(Ram) Always needed was love form another female that he never got to experience since he did not grow up with his mother. In the book he gets the loving figure from Smita. Who grows a strong relationship with him as the story goes on. In the movie Jamal becomes close to Latika, who he is in love with. After years and years of always being seperated from her, in the end he finally got her and the type of love he always needed.

Random Thought: Through reading this book and the movie, it made me more interested in the Indian Culture. Hopefully I can visit the Country some day. ( :