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Natter. Also moved an example pertaining the film tpo its own YMMV tab. Lastly, since when is Promoted To Love Interest YMMV?
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* AdaptationDisplacement: The book was a bestseller when first published but quietly faded in popularity, while the film started off strong and remained so. These days people might not even realise there ''was'' a book.
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** When Evelyn and Ninny discover at the end that Idgie's still alive in the present day, Ninny gives Evelyn a smile. Does Ninny know where Idgie is, or is Ninny actually Idgie herself?
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation:
** When Evelyn and Ninny discover at the end that Idgie's still alive in the present day, Ninny gives Evelyn a smile. Does Ninny know where Idgie is, or is Ninny actually Idgie herself?
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* AdaptationDisplacement: The book was a bestseller when first published but quietly faded in popularity, while the film started off strong and remained so. These days people might not even realise there ''was'' a book.
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation:
**AlternateCharacterInterpretation: When Evelyn and Ninny discover at the end that Idgie's still alive in the present day, Ninny gives Evelyn a smile. Does Ninny know where Idgie is, or is Ninny actually Idgie herself?
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** Ed's chief "villainy" is not that he does anything bad to Evelyn, or that he tries to prevent her from doing what she wants. It's more that he seems blind to his wife's growing unhappiness. In fairness to Ed, Evelyn believes that she is at fault and doesn't express her concerns to Ed until she's [[DespairEventHorizon well past despair]] (the film plays this for laughs while the novel shows her frequently fantasizing about suicide), but once she does so, Ed seems responsive to the idea.
*** There's also a little difference in the film (where Evelyn's personal growth is the main focus) and the novel (where we have a little more time to see how their marriage is going). By the end of the film, Ed's just warming up to his wife's new ideas; in the book, he comes around a little earlier and the book ends with indications that their relationship is in the midst of a happy upswing. Plus, there's something to be said about a man who visits his belligerent elderly aunt in a nursing home every week, even when he knows she's just going to throw things at him.
*** There's also a little difference in the film (where Evelyn's personal growth is the main focus) and the novel (where we have a little more time to see how their marriage is going). By the end of the film, Ed's just warming up to his wife's new ideas; in the book, he comes around a little earlier and the book ends with indications that their relationship is in the midst of a happy upswing. Plus, there's something to be said about a man who visits his belligerent elderly aunt in a nursing home every week, even when he knows she's just going to throw things at him.
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* PromotedToLoveInterest: In the film, Grady has a bit of a crush on Idgie, to the point that he's apparently asked her to marry him a couple times (though in fairness, he clowns it up a lot, meaning it might be an old gag between them). It's still an upgrade from the book, where none of Idgie's male friends, including Grady, ever regard her as anything but one of the boys.
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** "Just let her go. Miss Ruth was a lady, and a lady always knows when to leave."
*** The entire scene from that start could probably qualify including Buddy Jr and the lake story.
*** The entire scene from that start could probably qualify including Buddy Jr and the lake story.
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** "Just let her go. Miss Ruth was a lady, and a lady always knows when to leave."
***" The entire scene from that start could probably qualify qualifies, including Buddy Jr and the lake story.
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* TheWoobie: Buddy is such a loving, and charming young man, who tragically is hit by a train right in front of his beloved little sister!
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** Buddy is such a loving, and charming young man, who tragically is hit by a train right in front of his beloved little sister!
** Buddy is such a loving, and charming young man, who tragically is hit by a train right in front of his beloved little sister!
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** In the novel, George's two twin sons find themselves reminiscing at the ends of their lives: Artis remembers his youth as a popular ladies' man in a vibrant, exciting, black-centered Birmingham, while Jasper looks back on the hardships of a life spent in deference to white people, reflecting that the one thing that sustained him was his love for trains. Both the Birmingham of Artis's youth and the time of trains has long passed; both old men can find comfort only in their memories.
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* PromotedToLoveInterest: In the film, Grady has a bit of a crush on Idgie, to the point that he's apparently asked her to marry him a couple times (though in fairness, he clowns it up a lot, meaning it might be an old gag between them). It's still an upgrade from the book, where none of Idgie's male friends, including Grady, ever regard her as anything but one of the boys.
