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Actually the original author considered the 2004 version to be closer to the book than the 1987 version. http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20050714/social/social-and-personal.84184
"In 1987 the book was made into a lack-lustre movie starring Scott Glenn and Joe Pesci with Jade Malle as the young kidnap victim. The screenplay went through several transitions under Italian-French direction. At one stage, reading the script, Mr Nicholson mentioned that it did not appear to be following the line of the book. The script-writers replied: "You mean, there's a book...?"
Mr Nicholson, who had imagined his hero as looking like Robert Mitchum, was unimpressed by the outcome, as was the majority of the cinema-going public.
When Hollywood remade the film last year, director Tony Scott cast Denzel Washington as the hero and Dakota Fanning as the young victim but he used Mexico as the location because of the inordinately high number of kidnappings in Mexico City. It received high critical acclaim, not least from Mr Nicholson himself who was happy that it used a lot of his original dialogue."
Ironically Creasy sleeps with Lisa Ramos in one of the deleted scenes (he protected her from gunmen who attacked a shoppng center and she fell for him). This is an scene taken straight from the original 1980 novel, which was set in Italy. Creasy is not a religious Christian in that version.
I suppose they deleted the scene to make Creasy more "pure"?
That's how it was in the source novel by AJ Quinnell, so I don't see how it would be different in an adaptation. Creasy wouldn't be Creasy anymore.
The original author, Phillip Nicholson (AJ Quinnell) did prefer the 2004 version over this one simply because it mostly used his lines https://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20050714/social/social-and-personal.84184
"When Hollywood remade the film last year, director Tony Scott cast Denzel Washington as the hero and Dakota Fanning as the young victim but he used Mexico as the location because of the inordinately high number of kidnappings in Mexico City. It received high critical acclaim, not least from Mr Nicholson himself who was happy that it used a lot of his original dialogue."
Look for the original 1980 novel. In many ways the 2004 Denzel movie is closer to the novel!
"There's also subtle satire in the original (the rich parents who don't have time for their kid, until it's too late"
This is in the source novel and in the 2004 adaptation too. In an early script of the '04 version, Creasy even suggests that both parents are deserving of punishment in a way (when it comes time for the dad to kill himself).
The death of Creasy was certainly faked; his death was faked in the source novel too.
Pinta Balletto did die in the original novel, but Sam lived in this movie.
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There was a bit - You see the drill bore into the tooth.. blood seeps out from the gumline and from the drill area. Then as the drill goes through the tooth the blood splatters across Lockhart's face and he has a look of contempt against the dentist, Dr. Brennan.
I think the "cure" she was being fed meant she grew up very slowly. And the location in the Swiss Alps (mountains!) meant it was easy for Vollmer to shield her from government intervention and from both World Wars.
The location, Switzerland, meant she could be sheltered from both world wars
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