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This week on Book Watch, we're diving into the recently announced page-to-screen adaptation of Remarkably Bright Creatures! We discuss the cast bringing Shelby Van Pelt's beloved novel to life, including Sally Field as Tova Sullivan, Lewis Pullman as Cameron, and Alfred Molina as the voice of everyone's favorite octopus, Marcellus. We also explore what we know so far about the film adaptation, directed by Olivia Newman and based on the bestselling novel by Shelby Van Pelt. Join us as we share our thoughts on the casting choices, discuss our hopes for the adaptation, and speculate about how this heartwarming story of grief, friendship, and second chances will translate from page to screen.
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Introduction to 'Remarkably Bright Creatures'
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Hello, book watchers on this episode of book watch we are watching remarkably bright creatures by Shelby van Pelt published in 2022 and it's Netflix adaptation in 2026 also the name also the same name This is directed by Olivia Newman, who also did the screenplay along with John Winningham.
00:00:20
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And the audio book is narrated by Maren Ireland, who did Tova and Cameron's POVs, and Michael Urie, who did Marcellus's POV. I'm Sarah Day.
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And I'm Chris. And I'm Jordan. And we will get started right after these messages.
Exploring Book vs Movie Adaptations
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Welcome to Book Watch, the podcast where pages meet screens. Each week, we dive into the world of adaptations, comparing beloved books with their cinematic counterparts. From faithful retellings to bold reimaginings, we'll break down what worked, what didn't, and what made each adaptation unforgettable. Whether you are a bookworm, a movie buff, or both, grab your bookmark. Grab your popcorn. And let's watch some books.
Plot Overview of 'Remarkably Bright Creatures'
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Welcome back, listeners. This novel follows Tova Sullivan, a seven-year-old widow who takes a night cleaning job at Sowell Bay Aquarium in Washington to cope with the mysterious decades-old disappearance of her teenage son.
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There, she forms an unlikely bond with Marcellus, a curmudgeonly and highly intelligent giant Pacific octopus. Using his sharp mind, Marcellus acts as a detective to uncover the truth behind her son's disappearance before his time runs out.
00:01:40
Speaker
This was an adorable book and adaptation, but what did you guys think of the story?
Themes of Grief in the Story
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Speaker
I thought it was awesome. I think that they did a great job with, ah I mean, the adaptation had its changes, but I think that overall they did a great job of capturing the essence of the book. And it was just, it was a sweet story that, um,
00:02:06
Speaker
kept her on edge your seat she's like come on don't you guys see it come on come on get there get there and eventually myrcellus helps him get there in the story so uh yeah because we kind of he tells us like halfway through the book that it's that they're related and you're just like okay wait so how do they find out right that's kind of the tension of the story and watching people not be very remarkably bright creatures yeah
00:02:31
Speaker
Yeah, I really love this story too. um We're having some personal tragedy in my family. We had to unexpectedly say goodbye to one of our family pets. um And so this whole book and movie being about grief and processing grief and like, what do you do with yourself after you lose somebody that you love? And then spoiler alerts for the ending, like, you know, she releases Marcellus and she's like, you get to go home now and you get to be free. And was like, oh my God, we just had to do that with our dog. So it was very like timely, and i feel like it was – and I told these guys you know in our group text, I was like, I feel like it's providence that we are talking about this book right now because I needed – like, that's the beauty of books and movies is that they can tell us things about life that we may not know for ourselves already. And so, like –
00:03:24
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if It was very healing for me to go through this journey with Tova and like learn you know what happened to her son and how to get through that and like beat that friendship with Marcellus. And the relationship that starts with Cameron even before they know they're related. And then at the end of it, you know, yes, there was the loss. And there there's always going to be the loss. And you always are going to have that little hole in your heart. But you can move on. And you can still find joy and be happy and have family afterwards. It was very timely and very healing for me. And so we watched this movie last night, my husband and i And by the end, both of us are sitting there like... crying and like wiping her tears and we just yeah we're going through it over here in our household but this movie was so sweet and just made you feel warm and fuzzy inside so I really loved it and yeah it I said it was like um
00:04:25
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PC compared to the book like it had all the same pieces as the book they just like pulled this from this spot and put it over here and then this one and put it over there and just kind of rearrange some stuff but I think for like the visual media and for the flow of the film it worked really well and they had all the important things still in there just in a slightly different ways so I was totally fine with all the changes I feel like instead of showing us, they they um had it
Changes in the Movie Adaptation
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as part of dialogue. They took a lot of stuff that we saw as scenes in the book and they just made it a quick little line in the movie. But of course, there's so many characters and there's so many things happening in this story that you have to take some stuff out for time's sake.
00:05:09
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um i don't think i had a problem with anything and we'll get more into the nitty-gritty of that in the next episode but it definitely felt very rushed compared to the book um i think a couple characters were very watered down um and yeah well we might get to that when we talk about the cast today but i think we'll get to that a lot more when we talk about it next week yeah agreed
00:05:33
Speaker
At least it was this one and not like Marley and me we were covering today. i think this one gave you that little bit of separation, whereas something like that would have been way too close to home right now. I've never seen Marley and me, and especially right now, I could not handle it. No, don't it right now. going that. It's definitely a lot.
00:05:51
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But this one had definitely had that, you know connection to Marcel's wasn't her pet, but yet he became her friend the same way that a lot of our pets do become yeah you know close to us in the way that we would lose experience loss when they're gone. And even even one an animal that in the zoo you take care of or in an aquarium you take care of that becomes so close like that would definitely be a big loss to lose so it's even just him getting and the end of the story it was just like oh no he's not got much time left he's gotta finish his mission here he's gotta help her
00:06:24
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Yeah. And the way that the narrator in the audio book and we'll talk about the voice actor in the film in a second, but the way that both of them, like you can hear their voices change throughout each, like they start bright and peppy and snippy and like, oh, humans are dull and blah, blah, blah. And then at the end, it's very slow. It's like, you know, I guess they are kind of remarkably bright creatures. And it's like, oh, no, please. But very well done for both for both folks who did that.
Sally Field as Tova
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All right, well, let's jump into the cast, which is what we cover in our first part of these episodes. And we will start, of course, with Toba Sullivan. And she is played by their wonderful Sally Field.
00:07:10
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Such a great casting. She's kind of the perfect person for this kind of role. She portrays emotions so well on screen. She is someone that everybody loves and ah can connect with. I thought it was a wonderful casting for her.
00:07:27
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Yeah, I loved her. We, again, talking about like our own grieving, having her in this movie maybe reminded me of Steel Magnolias and her role in that movie. And again, like she just plays the grieving mother, grieving widow woman so, so well. um Hopefully she doesn't keep getting typecast into those roles. I'd love to have Sally Field have some joy in a film for once. That would be cool. But yeah, she was great. I feel like, you know, I grew up with her with Steel Bagnolia, with Mrs. Doubtfire. So those are movies like that. Spider-Man.
00:08:05
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Spider-Man, exactly. Like they, my parents had me watch those movies all the time growing up. and So she feels like my grandma in a lot of ways. um and so I loved having her in this. It made it feel again, like even more like warm and cozy and like familiar almost.
00:08:21
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Yeah. She's Forrest Gump's mom too, right? Yeah, she sure is Yep. um I know her best
Lewis Pullman's Performance as Cameron
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from Mrs. Doubtfire. And so, you know, I kind of forgot while watching that it is Sally Field because she's so much older than she is in Mrs. Doubtfire. So when I hear the name Sally Field, you know, that's what i envision. Yeah.
00:08:43
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So it was really easy for me for her to blend into the role and just be Tova. And I agree with both of you. I think she did a wonderful job of Tova just being the very sweet, you know, grandmotherly type person, especially when she shared the screen with Cameron's character actor. And um I thought they both did. Yeah. I'm just really excited to talk about the rest of the cast. Cause I thought everybody did a really good job bringing these characters to life. Mm-hmm.
00:09:15
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And on that note, we have Cameron, who was played by Lewis Pullman.
00:09:24
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So I mostly know him now from the Thunderbolts, the movie as the Robert Reynolds character there. I don't know a lot of his other stuff, but everything I've seen him in so far, I think he plays that that role pretty well, whether he he becomes his character pretty well. So I'm ah excited to start watching more of his stuff. ah He was Lessons in Chemistry too. I did did watch that.
00:09:52
Speaker
but Another adaptation we should cover one day. I'm ready. I've seen and read of both. So let's go. Yeah, me too. That's a good one. um He's also, so yes, lessons in chemistry. He's also in Top Gun Maverick. So I think he's definitely an up and coming um actor. Of course, he has a well-known father, um but I am excited to see where his career takes him. I've liked him in everything that I've seen him in.
00:10:19
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I was just thinking to myself, I wonder if Sally Fields and Bill Pullman ever saw each other on screen, but I don't know how to find that out quickly. So that would be kind of interesting. I really like Lewis Pullman as Cameron. like he He played 30-year-old loser really well. And like I think the scenes where he's really talking about his grief and his hardship not knowing his dad and then his mom dying, like he really brought that across really well. And he you know he seemed genuinely like upset and like like he was struggling. And I...
00:10:58
Speaker
i can't relate to that story, thank goodness. But, um you know, for people who can, like it probably, I hope that it was a really good expression of, you know, maybe what they have gone through in their lives and, you know, brings them that Like, okay, somebody gets it. And, you know to see that on screen is really, really cool. But yeah, I thought he did a great job. And I love, like you said, the chemistry with him and Sally and like their interactions together. I was like, oh yeah, these two are good. these are These are good together. Yeah, I thought he did a good job of playing Cameron. um i think he was a little bit more, not aggressive, but...
00:11:40
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They wrote the character for the film just a little bit more exaggerated than I felt like he was in the book. Like everything in the book just felt a little bit more believable the way he was reacting to things. Not saying that he overacted at all. I just think it was the way it was written and and directed. But that's really the only complaint I think I have on the cast. um Well, I think part of that comes with like the all the changes they made and so much of his like backstory and introduction. got taken out of the film and so you don't have as much time with him and from his point of view, like the movie is very much Tova's story and it's about Tova and her relationship with Marcellus and her relationship with Cameron, but the book is very split, Tova and Cameron and each of them have points of views and they go off and do things separately and things together. And so I think that for me, like, I agree with you that it's he seemed a little bit off compared to the book. And I think that's why because we just didn't get as much time and as much background with him. Yeah, I agree. And I don't think that it's a bad thing for the film. Because as I was reading the book, I'm like, okay, I'm 2530 40% into this book, and the two main characters still haven't even crossed paths. Um, and I'm like, I knew what was supposed to happen. Like these two were supposed to be in the aquarium together. I'm like, when are we getting to the point? And then it's like, once that happens, it's just so heartwarming and everything is just bam, bam, bam from there on. And then that's, you know, we find out almost immediately after that they are related. So you're like, okay, so the rest of the book is just how do they find out they're related? yeah.
00:13:18
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But i like again, i think that's fine for the film to cut out all that backstory we had with Cameron because you don't want to waste that time in a film waiting for these characters to get the ball rolling. Yeah. One, the book, there's all these other different threads tying Marcellus to Tova before he's in the aquarium. And, you know, we haven't talked about Avery yet, but Avery is tied to Eric before they even meet. So like there's lots of different strings that the book plays.
00:13:47
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pulls in and gives you that thought of like do they connect do this is this how this went and it leaves it a mystery at the end but like it's all there where you can draw conclusions and the movie they just were like snipping those threads left and right like that that never happened this doesn't exist like even you know cameron's mom like the story open the movie opens with him finding out oh your mom is dead here's how you get the camper and In the book, that's left very ambiguous. He just hasn't seen her in a long time. So he doesn't know if she's alive or dead or not. And so like that. So those kinds of like mysteries and like allusions to the past and all that kind of stuff just gets cut out, which, again, makes sense for a movie. But it's going to it has some effect on on the characters for sure.
00:14:33
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I spent the entire movie wondering if I kind of trying to decide whether I actually would have rather read the I watched the movie first or read the book first. I'm like, I kind of don't want either of them spoiled by the other. Cause I'm watching this movie. I'm like, Oh, I kind of am sad. I already know the ending and the book would have been the same way if I'd seen the movie first. So it it kept me wishing I'd watched it first or wishing I hadn't or whatever. Yeah. Yeah.
00:14:57
Speaker
My coworker did tell me to watch the movie first and I did not listen. I read the book first and I can definitely see why that's recommended to watch the film because of all the things they cut and twist and leave out. But um I'm fine. I I'm fine having read it.
00:15:15
Speaker
Knowing what happened because i was very, it was, the book was very heartwarming, but it didn't, I didn't bring a tear to my eye. And I think that is because like, I just spent this whole time like waiting for it to happen. And then it happens. I'm like, okay, yay, finally. Like I did have a smile on my face. I was very excited. The movie though did bring tears to my eyes. Them, The two of them sitting on the bench at the end, like when they finally reveal that she's his grandmother, I'm like, oh my God, the acting was so good.
00:15:41
Speaker
um And especially Louis Pullman's acting, like he just breaks down and you're just like, oh, it's okay, buddy. She's there for you now. um That part was kind of a, my wife was unsure what was happening at first and that it wasn't until she actually said something that she figured it out or they and like moved to the narration. She was like, why does she care about this ring? I don't, I don't get it. So it took a moment to for her to feel like it actually explained what was happening there, but um still not bad. I understood it cause I'd read the book, but, and I, you can kind of piece it together, but it does get there and just tell you, but she was a little frustrated by that.
00:16:21
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Well, I think if you're not paying attention to names, like if I think if we had seen Eric's name laid out like that earlier in the film, like the four names, I think it would have been more clear. But they couldn't give it to us too early because we knew he thought EELS was eels, you know.
00:16:38
Speaker
um But if you had like seen it on his wall in his bedroom, just like like an eagle eyed viewer would see it that hadn't read the book, they might have been able to piece it together. Or in the yearbooks or something. Right. Exactly. Yeah. um But yeah, I don't think they I think they did OK with what they had, even though um I had spoiled it for my husband because I had told him.
00:17:03
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that she was his grandmother, like Marcellus, like 50% Marcellus tells us that she's his grandmother or that they're related. Right. And so I had told him that I'm like, it's like, it's halfway through the book. I still have a whole half to read, like what, what's going to happen. So he knew that going into the film, but I do like that the film doesn't give it away that early and that you have to wait until the end. Like you, cause Marcellus in the book says,
00:17:31
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These two are related in in more words. And in the film, he says they both have the same hole in their heart or things like that. And, you know, when he says a line, they both cock their head to the side. So you can see those mannerisms. But I still don't think they lay it out in the film like they do the book.
00:17:50
Speaker
Yeah. And even his comments about them having the same hole in their heart, like that is straight from his chapters in the book. But like, you're right. He says like every ah human's gait, how they walk is similar through family lines. And so that's how he, how Marcellus tells that they are related because they walk the same. And then he looks, he sees all the different mannerisms. And so he's able to analyze all these different things about them that you could tell him for sure that they're related and then a hit he goes on several more missions besides just getting the ring to show them that they are related to try and get them to make the connection because they're not doing it on their own and yet joeva all throughout is seeing eric's mannerisms in cameron and just ah writing it off as oh that's just coincidence just coincidence it's fine yeah it's just another kid that reminds me of my son
00:18:47
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Well, yeah, and I do think that they, like I said, when he says the one line, um they both tilt their heads. So I do think the movie did try to give us those similar mannerisms in certain ways. And it would be fun to go back and watch it again looking for those. Sorry, my dog is like, what's going on? I want to know.
00:19:06
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So speaking of Marcellus and being the narrator, the all knowing remarkably great creature that he is, he is voiced by none other than Alfred Molina.
Alfred Molina as Marcellus & CGI Discussion
00:19:18
Speaker
If I had a nickel for every time Alfred Molina played an octopus, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, it's weird that it happened twice. Yeah.
00:19:26
Speaker
Is that joke going to become a thing for you? Probably, yeah. You used it last week, too. Sorry. Stop. It's going to be Jordan's signature joke on the podcast. I'm not very creative, you guys. was thing with Zooey Deschanel singing in the shower and now Doc Ock.
00:19:43
Speaker
i I like that joke. I think it's funny. Listen, we share so many memes and GIFs in our chats that it makes a lot of sense that we would also be using the memes.
00:19:53
Speaker
Yeah, for sure. But yes, ah he did a great job as Marcellus. I think that that voice is just just right, what you expect for an octopus. Now, every time I'm walking through an aquarium, I'm going to hear them talking about me in the background, you know, in his voice.
00:20:07
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And what did you guys think of the CGI as well? I liked it. I think they did a great job with it. I didn't didn't bump into it at all. I thought, oh, okay, there's an octopus moving around.
00:20:18
Speaker
Yeah, because I mean, I like how they had all the different cut scenes of like, actual ocean life. So you know, like Chris and I growing up on the West Coast, like the aquarium that we go to that I went to growing up and that like, at work, we take the kids there every summer on a field trip. Like, I've seen these animals like in aquariums, like in real life. And so I'm like, Oh, I know what that animal is. I know what that fish that jellyfish like I've seen an octopus like that far away from me before. So I like how they intermix like the cut scenes of like Marcellus's memories of the ocean and like actual footage of the ocean in the Pacific with um with his CGI of him like and how he acts. And I thought, ah you know,
00:21:04
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you could I could still obviously tell that it was CGI, like beyond like the logic of if you can't train an octopus to do certain things. But are remarkably bright creatures. they They sure are. They really are. But um yeah, like, you know, it's CGI, but I was able to overlook it and be like, it will it was real enough that ah it didn't bother me at all. And it wasn't like creepy, uncanny valley CGI either. Like it was good. The only time I think that I, it it like it pulled me out of it was when they were touching each other. Like when he wrapped his tentacles around her or Cameron. um I think that's the only time I was really like, eh, a little iffy. But again, that's really hard when you're interacting with real life.
00:21:47
Speaker
Yeah. Well, and unlike the movement that a tentacle has to, there's literally no bones. so You can't like write make it. It's just fluid. Almost. That's true. The whole like point of CGI is but lay that you're creating a bone structure to work to manipulate. So there's no bones in an octopus. What are we supposed to do? They did a great job. CGI artists did a great job in this one.
00:22:10
Speaker
All right. Well, that brings us to Ethan Mack, played by Colm Meany. Ethan, of course, is the shop owner that is interested in Tova.
00:22:21
Speaker
I thought it was going to be – I can't remember his name right now. I thought i was going to be the dude from Game of Thrones, the red-haired guy from Game of Thrones who's obsessed with the end of Thrones. He would have been perfect. thought it was him for a half second because we first see him like through the window or like from a little bit of a distance. I'm like, dude, it's him. And then it wasn't. And I was like, aw. But I still really loved um this actor who played Ethan. like I thought he was – he's a Scotsman and he was fun. And i like how they blended the – He's an old dude living in the Pacific Northwest with also like he is a European punk rocker. um And I thought so they did a good job of like he's had like his little puka shell bracelets, but then his Grateful Dead t-shirt. So I thought that was a really fun like character design, like the costume, because I was like, what is this dude wearing all the time?
00:23:06
Speaker
And it explains sometimes what he's wearing. But I'm like, and it wasn't like clicking. And then I saw him. was like, OK, yeah, that makes sense to me. As someone who goes to the Oregon Coast a lot, which is a little closer and a little more the same sort of thing, uh, area as this, I, I, I, that's exactly what everybody wears over there anyways. So that's, that's about right. So yeah, I thought he was great. Um, I definitely, um,
00:23:32
Speaker
think that the character had a few changes from the book or as far as his story you went, but I think he pulled off, you know, I'm here because I needed some purpose. So I bought the store when it came up and came and I love the area. I love the people. And I think he played that well of someone who just was in love with with ah interacting with humans and being a part of that people's lives.
00:23:55
Speaker
And he kind of helps eventually bring Tova back into her, know, into a social standing with people. And he's one of those people that pushes through her boundaries, even though she locks everybody out for a while.
00:24:07
Speaker
But not pushing through her boundaries in a bad way. Just like just helping helping helping her open back up. Yeah, yeah. the kind ah The final kind of key player besides the nitwits is Avery, um whose you know role was kind of cut down a lot in the film, but she is played by Sophia Black Delia.
00:24:29
Speaker
She's not who I saw in my mind. neither. it was fine. i got past it, and she did ah did good with the role. she still um like i see Like you said, it was much more cut back, and so I was like...
00:24:42
Speaker
Well, we kind of missed part of the story there a little bit, but I mean, she, she was there. She definitely did her, did her little part. Yeah, she definitely got the sassiness and the snark from the book correct. And so like the the dialogue and the delivery of the dialogue, i was like, okay, yeah, that makes sense to me. But yeah, the visuals, I was like, this is not adding up with what I had in my brain. I imagined her a lot more California-y, like blonde and tan and like much more like, so you know, Southern California surfer girl type looking. um
00:25:17
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And that's not... what this actress looks like which is totally fine I just was like oh oh my god that's Avery that's crazy um but yeah took me sec but yeah she was fine and especially since the role got cut down so much it was easy to like ignore and overlook all right exactly like she was fine for what they did for the film but I don't think she would be a good book Avery if they had that amount of like backstory or like meaningfulness to her character that the book had um but she was fine for what we got i feel like maybe they cut some of it out of the film um like maybe they had filmed more and they had just cut it um because it just felt like it felt like she was there in the beginning and she had a big role and then she was gone for a little bit and then she popped back in for the epilogue
00:26:06
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Yeah, I mean, like I talked about all the different threads that the movie cut, like, one of the big ones was her thread and like her previous connection to to the other players in this story. and By cutting that thread, it's like, honestly, like she could have not been in the movie at all and it would have been fine. I did like i did like the visual of that each of them being on their date, like passing like you know on the paddle boards passing by when Tova's with Ethan. like I liked that like juxtaposition of
00:26:40
Speaker
Cameron and Tova each like trying to come out of their shells and trying to be brave and, and go out and experience life and find joy through all their hardships and trauma. I did enjoy that part. So you can't really have that if there's no love interest for Cameron to, to be with. um And I like, you know, her son, Marco, like, you know,
00:27:02
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how that, you know, was triggering for Cameron that, you know, another single mom with a teenage son who had her son when she was a teenager. Like, I liked all of those aspects. But when you take away like that big thread, it's like, why what's the point a little bit, you know?
00:27:19
Speaker
Yeah, I feel like it felt a lot more forced in the film than it did the book. Like she just had a reason to be there in the book. And like you said, taking away that piece of the pie just really watered down that whole storyline. And it just took away from everything else that was happening. Like we didn't need that love interest in the film.
00:27:38
Speaker
Yeah. All
Supporting Characters Analysis: The Nitwits
00:27:39
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right. um So the nitwits are the last group of people that we're going to cover and they are played by Joan Chen, Kathy Bakeman, and I'm sorry, Kathy Baker and Beth Grant.
00:27:51
Speaker
They were fun. i like i We talked about this before with Bridgerton, but like I love seeing older women be friends and like have relationships with each other and support each other. and the I forget which one of them it was um with her daughter helping Tova where she like calls her out. like you've been ah You've been so absorbed with like isolating yourself that you've now become a bad friend. to other people, I was like, get her girl, like, let her know, because that's part of being a ah good friend is being honest with each other and saying, you know, you're you're not intending to do it, but you're hurting me right now with how you're acting.
00:28:31
Speaker
like you know kind of snap out of his sister um and so and I love them like coming over to like help her get ready for her day and like hiding behind the couch like they're teenagers again like all of all of the scenes with them I just was like oh they're so fun and like they were definitely changed from the book to like you know There's some scenes where Tova talks to some of them individually, and those get taken out because of how other changes that they made, and it's all fine and dandy. But i actually really liked the nitwits. I thought they were fun. And I'm glad that they were included because they could have easily been cut.
00:29:08
Speaker
Yeah, it was good to show that she still had connection with people her own age and had that group of people that that's been around her all her ah life, basically living here and growing and changing with people. And yeah, that scene where she's called out as, you know, hey, we're all still your friends. You don't need to try to not burden us. We want the burden. Let us help you was very good. And yeah, they were a good supporting cast that helped us push the narrative forward in different spots.
00:29:36
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All right. Well, any other comments on the cast CGI or settings that we want to get into? Twilight Beach. I saw it and I pointed it out to my husband. and I was like, oh, that's the beach from Twilight. I know that because I know that that's the beach from Twilight because I am like that.
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we We had a conversation about it, too. I think the setting of the Pacific Northwest is is good. Like it's there are, you know, Chris can vouch. There are a lot of like small towns up there. And like if you want the octopus and the aquarium, like the Pacific Ocean is like, of course, you need to be near some body of water. And the Pacific Ocean is the superior body of water. Right now. Yeah.
00:30:23
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No, going to stand by that. um So it makes sense. And, it you know, you get you can have the paddle boarding and the, you know, just all of the things, the weather that they talk about, like. just feeding into this atmosphere of like it's dreary and cold and rainy for a lot of the year. And so like that, you know, definitely feeds into, you know, your sorrow and your depression and your sadness because you're just constantly surrounded by that weather. um So then when the sun does come out and things get better, feel it's all the more, you know, cinematic when it happens. So I really, I like that it took place up there. And again, all the, all the cast I think did, a good job with for just for how they are and for what they were given with the edits to the film. I just want to state that we can paddleboard on the East Coast and we also have weather on the East Coast.
00:31:17
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No, i don't buy it. We do. not Not as good as West Coast weather, though. You've been complaining about the rain a bunch lately, so we get it. We do not. We get like we wait right here. we get We get rain or we get snow and forest fires. that's That's our two seasons over here. I get heat and forest fires and earthquakes.
00:31:40
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And you'll have a whole new set of those when you get over to Texas soon. Yeah. My last recording in California, you guys. And she won't even be in the Pacific North or near the Pacific Ocean anymore. She'll be near the Gulf or something. I know. I'm going to be sad. No more ocean.
00:31:55
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Not that I go to the ocean that much anyways. I'm an indoor reader person. All righty
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