Basic Trope: An adaptation is less action-focused than its source material.
- Straight: Charles and Diane is a novel focusing on the adventures of the titular Battle Couple, but Charles and Diane: the Movie tones down the action and focuses more on Charles and Diane's relationship, making it more of a romance movie.
- Exaggerated: Charles and Diane is absolutely action-packed, but Charles and Diane: the Movie is a straightforward romantic film that has no fighting whatsoever.
- Downplayed: Charles and Diane: the Movie still has plenty of action, but some iconic fight scenes from the novel were cut.
- Justified: Charles and Diane are taking a break from adventuring in the movie in order to focus on their relationship.
- Inverted: Actionized Adaptation
- Subverted: Charles and Diane: the Movie spends the first several minutes developing Charles and Diane's relationship, initially with no sign that there'll be any of the action that the story is known for. However, there's a fight scene soon afterwards.
- Double Subverted: This turns out to be the only fight scene in the movie.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Charles and Diane: the Movie keeps the action sequences in.
- Enforced:
- Charles and Diane: the Movie is of a genre not typically known for action and/or is Lighter and Softer than the source material.
- The removal of some of the violence was because of Bowdlerization and Executive Meddling - the original novel had content violent enough to potentially get an R rating, but the movie studio wanted a rating of PG-13 at the highest.
- The action sequences would be difficult to film for any variety of reasons, so they're mainly left out.
- Some of the action sequences didn't fit with the plot, and were left out.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "There were a lot more action sequences in the original book."
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