“Really enjoyed this. I'll have to watch the movie next!”
“Honestly...I'm no filmmaker but I think Brad just "sounds" better than Todd.”
“EXCELLENT”
“Todd was the name of the director, but that seems like a silly reason to change the name of a character.”
“I agree. I was completely surprised when the book ended. I didn't realize that they changed Todd's name either, it's been a while since I saw the movie. That is weird. Who knows why they did these things. Maybe wikipedia knows.”
“I thought the movie was brilliant. It affected me way much more than the book. The movie is an excellent pages-to-pictures adaptation, in my view. I didn't even realize the endings were different! Or that Todd's name had been changed to Brad. (Shows how forgetful I am, I guess.)”
“And Why in the World did they change Todd's name to Brad in the movie??Todd means Foxy or Fox like- seems a better choice.”
“The difference in endings completely bamboozled me. It almost seemed like they wanted to wrap things up in a neat little package for the movie, but WHY--especially since the rest of the movie was slavishly adherent to the book (as another commenter said, eerily so). It's not like the movie abandoned the book's nihilism; what good did the (marginally) neater ending do? Strange. I still enjoyed revisiting this world through the movie (seen about a year and a half after reading the book), though I certainly left it puzzled.”
