The Actual Movie

As I watched the movie, The Soloist, I noticed a few differences between the movie and the book. The movie was quite interesting, and it felt familiar. This is because I’ve been reading the book. As I watched the movie, I felt like I knew what was going on the entire time, and I felt like I’ve seen it before. As I watched it, I felt like I knew what was going to happen next, but in some situations I was wrong. The movie changed a few things from the book that I noticed.
The first thing I noticed changed was the fact that Steve Lopez worked with his wife. In the book, I believe he had a wife and a child, a little girl. But in the movie, he had no little girl, and his wife, or girlfriend (they never specified) worked with him at the office. In the book, I don’t even recall any conversations between him and his wife, yet in the movie, they were constantly talking and going out together and things like that. Another difference I noticed is how quickly Steve Lopez got into Nathaniel’s life. In the story, he always talked about trust between them and him trying to connect with him. But in the movie, their relationship grew fairly quicker than it did in the book. In the book, it took time for Steve to think about the situation when people were shipping him the instruments for Nathaniel. He thought about it and told Nathaniel about what was going on before he brought them. In the movie, he just one day showed up to Nathaniel with a new cello.
Another thing I noticed and liked about the movie was that I got a chance to visualize all that I’ve been reading. It was nice to actually hear Nathaniel’s playing and see how much he loved and got into his music. And even though it was a horrible sight, it was nice to actually see skid row as described in the book. Not good because of what was happening there, but good because it helped me realize what the place was really like and how hard life was to live there. Overall it was just nice to see everything I read.
In short, I enjoy reading the book, and even though there are obvious differences between the book and the movie, I still enjoyed the movie better.