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In Part Two of our Remarkably Bright Creatures deep dive, we're diving into the story's biggest reveals and emotional payoff. Join us as we compare Shelby Van Pelt's heartfelt novel with its screen adaptation, breaking down the major plot changes, the moments that stayed true to the page, and the scenes that took a different path. We'll discuss whether the adaptation captures the warmth, humor, and hope that made readers fall in love with Marcellus, Tova, and Cameron—and answer the ultimate question: did the movie do the book justice? Spoiler warning: we'll be discussing the ending in full, so finish the book (and the film) before listening!
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Introduction and Recap
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Welcome back listeners to part two of Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt published in 2022 and its Netflix adaptation. Today we are diving into the plot of the book. Last week we talked about the cast and now we are talking about the plot and I'm very excited to dive into this and i am Sarah Day. I'm Chris.
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And I'm Jordan. And we will return after these messages.
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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're a bookworm, a movie buff, or both, grab your bookmark, grab your popcorn, and let's watch some books.
Character Analysis: Tova, Cameron, and Marcellus
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Okay, so the book, we spent a lot of time getting to know Tova, getting to know Cameron, and getting Marcellus' POV as a curmudgeon-y octopus throughout um the story.
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And, um you know, we we learn that Tova has recently lost her husband, but she lost her son at the age of 18 about 30 years ago. And Cameron, realize, is living with his aunt. He is kind of a deadbeat trying to get his band to work, but his bandmates are having a baby, so they're breaking up the band. He gets...
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um this information from his aunt about a possible father. So he goes to, so he finds himself in Soul Belt Bay trying to find this developer that he thinks is his father and trying to get all the child support. And then of course we are counting,
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um counting down the days to Marcellus's eventual death as he knows his days are coming to an end because he is remarkably bright and knows how long they live for him and he knows how long he's been in captivity.
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He's read the signs.
Plot Dynamics and Adaptation Choices
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He's read the signs on the walls. Now, we get a lot of backstory in the book that is cut. Cameron's backstory is cut from the film, but the story really kicks off when Tova...
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saves Marcellus. He has an affection for her now, and she has fallen off the ladder. um They know each other because she works at the aquarium at nighttime. Now she fell off of her ladder, cleaning one night, and sprained her ankle, and that is how Cameron comes into the story because he is hired to fill in her shoes while she's gone. And I guess one key part of the book is that...
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Cameron meets Ethan and Ethan is kind of the one that gets him ah the camper and the job and kind of gets him on his feet and so about bae. But all of that is like almost 50% of the book before we really get things roll moving and rolling here.
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Yeah, the movie definitely accelerated that quite a bit. He gets the van from his mom's estate instead of ah getting it from some random guy on the after coming off the airplane and spending most of his money on it and then it breaking down on Ethan's driveway. and ah there's it It accelerated it, but it was a lot of the exposition that they fill in a little bit later, the stuff you need. But it was yeah a lot of it was there still, just rearranged like Jordan said in the last episode.
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Yeah. I mean, Aunt Jean doesn't exist in the movie. Her whole situation doesn't exist. Even his friends, like he, there's a lot of talk about like him and his friend have been best friends since elementary school. And like him and the his, like the his the wife, like all three of them have been friends since they were kids. And then those two got, grew up and like got married and now they're expecting a baby. And he's like, still a you know acting like a teenager like trying to make it big with the band instead of like getting a job and he can't hold down a job he's like is late and doesn't do it well and like and then he has like this victim mentality blaming everything on the fact that he never had a dad instead of like you know
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just saying like, I am accountable for my own success in life and I'm going to just overcome the odds and like do, you know, do well just because I can, you know, um all of that stuff just gone. I mean, his friends show up for one scene to tell them that they are,
00:04:49
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ending the band career so that they can focus on their new baby that's coming. And that's literally it. But like as a viewer, you don't really care because you have no other connection to those people versus like you said, Saradae in the book, there's like a whole half of the book.
Exploring Themes of Loss and Identity
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And since it's split between, you know, the three point of views and mostly Tova and Cameron, you have like a quarter of the book discussing that background and that relationship with them.
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um And then last week, like I said, too, with the threads, like one of the threads that is left ambiguous is whether or not Cameron's mom is dead or alive. You know, in the book, there's talk of like somebody has seen her like two or three years ago, but not since then. Like his aunt Jean hasn't heard from her. Like nobody knows where she's at, if she's okay or not. Versus in the movie, they're like, nope, she did. Here's her van. That's how we're going to skip all this other stuff and just like simplify it and like squish them together.
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and again, like we said, just being repetitive like for the movie makes sense. You got to get going quicker. You don't have you know as many pages as you want to go through things. You have two hours to tell the story. um So it makes sense to cut, but...
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you always you always lose a little something when you cut it. And so that, like we talked about the acting, like the depth of the character gets lost a little bit. So one of the things that Marcellus first notices about these two is that but I think before he even says that they're related, he's noticed that they both have, he says, a hole in their heart. So we know that Tova, she's dealing with the um a death of her husband, her son, a long time ago. And she is selling her house. So that's kind of what she's dealing through it is like all of these feelings um and kind of like moving on and healing. And then we have Cameron, who, like you said, um single mom, she is dead in the film.
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And he's just trying to find himself, really. I mean, he doesn't know his parents. She left when he was nine. I don't know if the film states that. um But, you know, they're both missing family.
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And um Marcellus notices that, too. And he's already wanting to help Tova because she saved him from the cords. um And then he realizes that they are related.
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And again, the film doesn't mention that he knows that they are related, but um you know they they definitely imply it. So things kind of really get going when Cameron is trying to get a hold of Simon Brinks and he's calling and he's calling and he's calling and he finally meets with Simon and he is informed that he's not really his father. He was just best friends with Cameron's mother. And in the book, they're meeting at a bar that he kind of created for Cameron's mother. His daughter is there in the movie. Simon is like, there's no way i could be your dad because I'm gay.
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And she kind of covered for me. But that kind of kicks off our next set because he – gets the actual ring um that has E-E-L-S and he thinks it means eels. And so um he's you know really bumped out that he's basically back to square zero.
00:08:25
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Yeah, i was kind of sad to not see that bar scene. And I mean, I didn't care how they wanted to change that character. That wasn't an important character, but it was a fun little like, you know, I built this kind of for your mom. She was my you know best friend. So I wanted to do something for her that was kind of um an important uh moment in my mind of oh he cared a lot about her so it gave cameron a reason to say okay my mom wasn't the you know piece of crap that i've kind of grown to see her as you know
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Yeah. Like humanizing her and saying like she had dreams and she had friends and she wasn't like, cause Cameron only knows her as like a drug addict who abandoned him when he was nine, but she wasn't always like that. Like something made her that way. And so Simon Brinks is able to show that other side of her that you know, we had aspirations. We were going to do this together. She was my best friend. She was a good kid. Like, you know, and then she got pregnant and she loved you and she was so excited to have you. And then, you know, something we you know, in the book, again, it's left kind of ambiguous, but like something happened and sent her down this terrible spiral into drugs and addiction and and all these things where, you know, this is how your life ended up. And I, he's like, I'm so sorry that it ended that this is where you're at, but like that the the version of your mother that I knew loved you. And so giving Cameron the opportunity to like reframe who his mother was and like see her at a different point of view, i think I agree with what was a really valuable thing that the book gave us that the movie took away.
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and there's so much other plot too that we're skipping over like you know Cameron Ethan taking him in and Cameron like living out of the camper on his driveway and then like how they meet Avery and Avery um I don't think it's at this point in the story it's later but like the thread of Avery's she talks about saving a woman from committing suicide like at the pier and so I thought that she may have It's left ambiguous. We don't know who it was, but like I thought that that was Daphne. I thought that that was Cameron's mom. And that that's how the author wanted you to think. So it's like you know so we know that, again, relatively recently, she was there and i' alive. And the key part of that story, which I am disappointed they cut from the film, is that it's like she witnessed the accident. The weather was bad and the boom swung around and hit
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Eric. And i don't know if either of the two of you have been on a sailboat or have been hit with a boom. I was on the sailing team in college. And let me tell you what, the boom really does hurt. Like you can really do a lot of damage with the boom. So it's the evidence that Eric didn't kill himself, that he really did.
00:11:23
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it was an accident. And that's what Tova really needed heal. And I don't think she gets that information. We do as the readers, but Yeah. I don't think – It's for – she pieces – there's enough evidence sprinkled throughout that she's able to come to that conclusion the same way that we are as readers where she knows it was bad weather that night. She is told by the character Adam, a friend from high school but not like a good friend so he was never interviewed by the police.
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But he says it like, oh, yeah, there was a girl. And also they were going to sneak beer because, you know, because they're 18 and they want to sneak beer and and party a little bit. And so she's like, oh my gosh, bad weather, alcohol. He was out on the boat with a girl. Like that's enough of a combination for even an experienced sailor like my son where the wrong, all the wrong things happen at the same time and he gets hit and drowns because he's knocked unconscious and he falls off the boat. And then this girl, whoever the girl is, she can't save him. she you know she's
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We find out later that it was Daphne, but like she's an 18-year-old girl, and so she's scared and traumatized, and she doesn't know how to sail the boat and like all of that. And then that's the thing that turns this, you know yes, a teen mom who's probably scared and confused and unsure, but who had a loving boyfriend who was going to help her raise her kid, into the single mom who is now traumatized watching her boyfriend die right in front of her, leads her down the path of drugs and despair. So yeah, a lot of these threads like are so beautifully woven throughout the book. And you can pull this piece and pull that
Comparing Book and Film: Depth and Emotional Connection
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piece. And like that was Daphne that Avery saved. And you know she was there that night that Eric died and she that she was the girl. like All these things are so
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perfectly lined up in the book for you to piece together and so many of those pieces get taken out in the film and then like they try to still squish the story together and it doesn't fit quite as nicely it's don't you still get where you need to go by the end but it's not it's not as fluid I feel yeah Yeah, I definitely agree. they um There was a lot that ah made up this story that we we didn't get in the film. And so personally, I still like the book better. um That was, in this case, one of the ones that ah I would have, if I had to choose one or the other, i would choose the book because there's just so much depth, so much interesting
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intrigue that you don't get when you're just watching the two hour condensement of the story. But yeah, Avery's ah um story was actually had a lot of depth to it that we missed out on. You just went through um her being, a little bit older than him gave a little bit of a you know another angle to come from the um Ethan part of the story was always pretty sweet because he's just there he wants to you know help people so he's getting to do what he wants to do and um yeah that definitely was good speaking of Ethan you know throughout the story he is trying to woo Tova um and
00:14:38
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He actually finds out first that Cameron is Tova's grandson. And he's like, I've got to tell her. And in when he's trying to tell her in the book, she finds she's trying to clean up after their dinner. And she finds a rag, quote, unquote, rag. But it's actually the Grateful Dead t-shirt. And she ruins it by cleaning it. In the book, she accidentally spilt wine on it.
00:15:06
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I mean, in the film, she accidentally still so spills wine on it. um And then she enlists the help of her friend's daughter to help her buy a new shirt on eBay. And she has to go on the freeway and try to get the shirt because shipping would take four to six weeks.
00:15:22
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um And it's like, why? Okay. For me, they kept that in but they – they changed it so much, but then they cut out all of Avery's stuff. So it's like, why would you cut out, why would you keep the t-shirt in for really nothing? And then the cut out Avery's stuff. um So that was really questionable to me.
00:15:43
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And even the t-shirt, like they didn't even show all the effort she went through do that make it right. Like they she still magically gets a new t-shirt and hands it to him. And like the epilogue, like, you know, montage of how ah her and Cameron's lives are better now that they found each other. It doesn't show like, oh yeah, i went to Janice Kim's house and I borrowed her computer and she helped me, you know, I don't have an email. So I had to send it to Janice Kim's email. And then her again, being brave and going on the freeway to get the shirt because she, you know, I have to make, there's a right way and a wrong way to do things. And I have to make this right. Like, and she cares about Ethan. And so that's part of her, like, you know, accepting the fact that
00:16:24
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hey, your your husband died, you're allowed to move on. You're allowed to care for another man. you Not even necessarily romantically, but just like at all, you're allowed to care about another person to a greater depth, even though your husband has died. And that's okay. And like that part of her healing process. And then it's just is like, no, magically she has a new one of these rare shirts that's worth thousands of dollars. Because they still make a point to say that it's worth thousands of dollars and very rare. And so magically she has it and can hand it to him at the end of I'm like,
00:16:55
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frustrating. They also, all the stuff with her selling her house and going to Charter Village, she has a brother who died. much at all. Completely doesn't exist. Like, they, I think maybe like one of the voicemails at the beginning, they talk about you've been on this list since your brother, know, was here. No, they didn't even mention the brother. She's been on the wait list, right? Her husband's on the list. Oh, her husband. That's what it was. Yes. I'm like, there's justice for Lars. Justice for Lars, the brother. Mm-hmm.
00:17:23
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Yeah. So, and again, you know, more death that she has to deal with, you know, death, death, death and their whole estrangement. And having to go there and get his stuff and all that yeah whole subplot that actually had a lot of interesting details of her story. Right. Ethan is the one that took her there.
00:17:39
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yeah Yes. Like it just shows their connection. And like, cause like I, I love like, I don't know, I guess I'm very despondent about the future. So any stories with old people being happy, make me,
00:17:50
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happy. So I'm like, you know, she's like, he has a crush on her, like they're 70 and he has a crush on her and she has a crush on him and they're all nervous and he trims his beard. and'm like, that's so sweet. And then like, you know, the, the effort and the flirtation looks different at different stages of life. And so for, like for him to, you know, I'll go with you on this journey for your brother that's a big deal that's that's that's intimacy and then for her you know i will get on the freeway and drive to pick up this grateful dead shirt and spend two thousand dollars on it that's intimacy and like just taking all the intimacy between those two characters out i was like come on you guys please help me i need some more romance so should it have been a tv show
00:18:36
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Yes.
Adaptation Potential: Is a TV Series Better?
00:18:37
Speaker
Yeah. I think so. Yeah. I really do. I mean, it was fine as a movie. like if i it Like a Netflix movie, it was fine. But for us to get what we want, like all the emotion, it definitely should have been a TV show. Even if it was four episodes, like an extend like a limited series. Yeah. Mini series. Yeah. You can even stretch it to six, I think, and you can really get all the background of Cameron and then like some flashbacks of him growing up or like the day his mom left. Yeah. You could do all these things and yeah and really get in there. And then you could do line for line. you know And Marcellus' sections were very much line for line. I will say that. like you could But you could do the whole his whole chapter line for line and him watching and observing and like interacting with Tova and Cameron. You could almost open and close an episode with his POV chapters.
00:19:30
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Yep. Yes. We were robbed. It was a great movie. You're right. i love this movie. I'm going to be rewatching this movie. This is going to be, I think this is going to be one where it's like when I'm feeling sad and I need to like let it out, I'll watch this movie. I'll pull this one up. um Especially because it it's always going to be attached to you know, my dog and my brain now.
00:19:53
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But gosh darn it, we could have had a really great show and it could have been a lot more accurate. Going back to Ethan. Okay, so. We lost the plot. yeah Well, they did too, so it's not our fault. ah That's fair. Okay, going back to Ethan and ah Cameron finding out that Simon is not his father and he gets the la um the Eels ring.
00:20:18
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There is two things that Mark Sellis Was like, these will definitely make her realize who Cameron is. And it was the license plate because she finds out that Daniel Cashmore. but Yes. Thank you. um Daphne.
00:20:33
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Daphne Cashmore um is the mother from. Okay. Okay. We completely forgot this whole going away party because one of the nitwits is moving in with her daughter. And the couple is at the party and the guy is – the guy that was friends with him and mentions the girl. And then in the book we get there's a girl, there's a girl, there's a girl. And she's very harping on this new piece of information. And we get that a little bit in the film.
00:21:00
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um because But that's what leads her to the yearbooks. Yeah. Yeah. I was going to say, sorry, like it's, it's been 30 years and this is, you know, again, there was not a lot of evidence because it was out on the ocean. So the police ruled it a suicide and wiped their hands and moved on, which, you know, there's no evidence. What are they supposed to do? So for her to get this new piece of information,
00:21:21
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is huge is earth shattering and again and something taken out this one genuinely i don't think made matters makes a difference but like she runs into the husband adam on the beach prior yeah and he tells her that he was friends with with eric we weren't really close friends we had only really started hanging out that year but like i did know him she's like oh i didn't even know that they knew each other that's so crazy And then at the luncheon, his wife is like gab, gab, gabbing and like spoils the fact that Tova is selling her house. And then also, you know, Adam spoils the fact that there was a girl. And then he says her name was Daphne. I don't remember her last name, but her name was Daphne. And then cue the whole thing with the yearbooks.
00:22:08
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Isn't he not the one he like spoils something, but he doesn't say it because she runs into the wife at the grocery store later and she's one who tells her the name, right? You're right. Yes. yeah But in the movie, he meets her outside and tells her. Yes. Which again is fine because that was fine yeah you skip, you know, that in between. Yeah. you don't need that yeah There's a whole subplot where Ethan finds the check on his wall from like back when this. That's right. is That's how he puts the names together. But that was kind of like it was a lot of threads that probably were unnecessary for a film. So I understand all that. But it was kind of interesting. Everybody coming from different angles and finding this info out.
00:22:44
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Yeah. Well, and and we keep going back to Ethan, but like Ethan and Cameron's relationship too, like ni gets like, Ethan is hiring for the grocery store and Cameron's like, what about me? He's like, you have no experience. Like it's a manager position. And so like when, you know, Cameron kind of throws his tantrum and leaves, like that's another piece of the tantrum is yes, he just found out that Simon Brinks is not his father. And so he's back to square one, like we said, and Ethan doesn't have,
00:23:14
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any confidence and which ethan's valid let's start there but ethan you know he again with his he's still living in that like victim mentality that like oh poor me like i can't me me everybody's out to get me which is not true but um you know he feels like ethan's betrayed him like he's just he's feeling a lot of betrayal and hurt and angst and so he's like i'm going back to california and he dips out And then he comes So yes. Okay. So we're we're kind of getting to the climax here. Yeah. Sorry. He's running away. And Marcellus, there's the two pieces. He gets the driver's license because Terry, the owner of the aquarium, is like, yeah, you can stay on full time as Tova's replacement. um But i need your driver's license. Like you never filled out this paperwork. um And then in in the book, in his mind, he's like, that's why I never went to college because I never filled out the paperwork for the um financial aid.
00:24:11
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And so again, it's just this whole route, you know, cycle of mentality cycle of him just not following through right so he leaves the um he can't get the copier to work so he's like i'm just leaving the driver's license so marcellus he grabs the license and throws it under the statue um because he knows tofer will clean it and then the whole ring thing happens and he throws the ring with the initials eels into the tank with the eels which marcellus's
00:24:43
Speaker
enemies and so he's like okay i gotta get this license and i gotta get this ring and i can't remember what happens with the license where does that end up but of course he does get the ring to tova they she finds it and she discovers it and she's like oh cameron castmore like your mom was daphne and so like she puts that piece of it together that you know the daphne that you know may have been friends with her son is his mother But it still, for some reason, is not really clicking that until she gets the right they were dating and together and like that that Eric could have been the father. It's just that they they were both seniors at the high school at the same time. And so you know they maybe they knew each other, but that's where it ends for her. Okay. As she's discovering all of this and putting two and two together, it is
00:25:36
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Marcellus's final days. There's a new octopus coming in, a female. And in his attempt to get the ring, and escape to the outside, she finds him.
00:25:49
Speaker
And she realizes that he wants to go to the Ossins. So she goes out to the pier, frees Marcellus, and then um kind of sits and stays on the pier. And I believe this is when Avery comes and tells her that somebody once tried to jump and I saved them. Maybe it's a little earlier, but that's when we find out this piece of information. So she's coming to all of these epiphanies at one time that it was an accident.
00:26:14
Speaker
And Cameron is her grandson. Yeah, because marceis Marcellus is the one who gives her the ring. And she puts together, oh this is Cameron's ring that he put in the tank. E-E-L-S. Oh, my God, it's my son's ring. If Daphne had my son's ring, that means that they were dating.
00:26:31
Speaker
And she, like, makes all the connections that that they're related. And then she gets, like, Cameron comes back and then she gets to tell him all of that instead of him coming back with the ring.
00:26:43
Speaker
Or no, she still has it. Either way. It was slightly different in the book. but And it all makes a little more sense once you realize just how much pressure Eric probably was feeling towards the end there too. And, um you know, he's got his girlfriend's pregnant. He was trying to figure out how to tell his parents. He's, you know, trying to figure out all this stuff. i wonder her Did he even know she was pregnant? Yeah. I don't even think she knew he was pregnant. Because they talked about plans, I think, is what they said in the book, at least. They were planning to be you know to do all this, and he was excited about it. but So I do think that she did know. yeah And then the movie they show it yeah in the movie, they show us at the end like the list of baby names, and Cameron is circled. Oh, yes, that's right.
00:27:25
Speaker
Oh, speaking that, not really, but... They added something in the film. What was it? um Oh, the fight that they were angry at each other. They added that in the film or did I just skip over that in the book?
00:27:37
Speaker
It was there because he did break that ceramic figure and had it in the under the floorboards. I do remember that, but i don't remember her feeling so guilty about being so angry at him the day she did. OK, I didn't get that from the book. OK.
00:27:52
Speaker
There's a haunting moment in the book where like Marcellus is talking about how he'd like seen the bones of her child. I know. Yes. who The keys match. Yeah. Everything matched. Exactly. And so it was like, that's weird. But they didn't show that in the film, which I was like, okay, that's fine. I don't know how they would. Yeah.
00:28:10
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mean, they had all those ocean moments, but but he did talk about how, you know, this is the same area where her son would have been, you know, long gone now, but would have had his final moments and everything. But it was fine. But yeah, the book that definitely gave me like, oh, that's chills right there. that this All these characters have so much connection and even Marcellus.
00:28:31
Speaker
That was another one of those threads. that This one particularly, like if you leave it out, it didn't harm anything. But like it would have been nice to see or to be told somehow that he that Marcellus knew what happened to Eric. He was there that night. And like I think obviously he can't convey that to Tova because he's an octopus. But like even for us, the viewer, to know that like Eric had ah a friend or somebody who would later become his mom's friend. there with him when he died so he wasn't really like alone um would have been would have been a cool thing to have but it's okay
00:29:10
Speaker
The ending with the, um they in the book, they sell the house because she's already got an offer on it. She's already cleaned her stuff out. It was while cleaning her stuff out that they find the box under the floorboards. um I kind of liked that they moved on from that place and got a condo together that they can, you know, ah they were able to be a little more accessible for her as an older person and be, you know,
00:29:33
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still in Solvay together, but in their own place instead of the old memories that they finally needed to let go of.
Conclusion: Symbolism and Resolution
00:29:42
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Yeah, i I wish that would have been something that they continued with as well. Like, and again, like squishing the timeline as much as they did. There wasn't enough time in the film for her to have sold the house to the family from Texas and then packed everything up and then like been about to go to Charter Village, like, and then at the last second, because she has this discovery of family, like, deciding not to go, like, there's no way you could have made all that make sense. Because I mean, the movie shrinks something that happens over the course of months, down to what feels like a week ish, you know, and so like, there's just wasn't enough time to make all that happen, like authentically.
00:30:24
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And her hosting the barbecue there and them living there together or whatever is sweet. It shows that he cared enough to fix the, you know, the railing for her, make sure she has safety in the house. And it shows that connection there too, at the same way. and they have the barbecue down on the little pier, or little, ah you know, of ocean view area they have above the cliff side there or whatever. And it was it was it was a sweet moment and showed her reaching out and actually...
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growing her community properly there. So i but I don't bump up against in the film. It was fine. But, but it I did like that in the book, they had that change or that had that moving on moment for both them. Yeah.
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You had the symbolism of letting go of the past and the pain and the trauma and moving forward with, you know, this new knowledge that you have that there is family and there is, you know, light at the end of the tunnel as it were.
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um yeah it's i i agree with you i think they're both they're both good but i prefer the symbolism from the book a little bit more any other final thoughts We've been jumping around a bit, but we've kind of covered most of the important parts to us. And I think you can we can definitely see that we we all enjoyed this book a lot and connected with it a lot. And so, um yeah, I mean, I don't think I have any other specific things I want to mention the book, but I did love it. And
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um I really when I did I didn't know much about this book before other than the people said you should read it you should read it I'm like well what's it about it's a weird title I don't know it's got sea creatures on it and then when i picked it up and finally it was like oh that's why people were telling me that it was really a great story yeah and it was also popular around the same time as my octopus teacher so I never knew like which octopus book is which yeah I liked it I am excited in 10 years when they remake it into a show.
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All right. Well then, um join us next week. We'll see you next time. Bye.
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