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I prefer the movie, thanks.
I honestly don't understand why this lovely work is so cruely dragged through the mud. It's hardly the first adaptation to stray from the "canon," and I'm absolutely certain that it won't be the last, so why complain? Artistic license is there for a reason... <
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>Anyway, having never really cared for the book and its "fire and brimstone" approach, I found this to be a refreshing departure. This version ~focusing on Arthur and Hester's forbidden love, their respective struggles and eventual triumph~ is really quite endearing. I could've done with less of Prynne/Chillingsworth, but since he's the villian, that's not surprising. The supporting cast was equally wonderful, especially Harriet, Hester's best friend and supposed "witch." She was a really great character, as was little Pearl. It's a great bit of acting when the person doesn't even say a word and you can still tell what they're thinking. Love that. <
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>Ok, so now that we've established that I'm terminally romantic and extremely attached to this film... yeah. Please try and respect the effort these talented people have put into TSL.

"I don't think anyone's read the book"
When responding to the harsh critics who panned this movie, Demi Moore's comments were "I don't think anyone's read the book". Ouch. Underestimating the intelligence of movie audiences and overestimating Demi Moore's odd, narcisstic comment, this movie fails to entertain, with literary and historical accuracy, and turns into a shrill preformance by Demi. <
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>Based on the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter is the tale of Hester Pryne, a young woman who has come to the new world to join her Puritain bretheran in their establishment in the New World. Here, Hester settles in, sent ahead by her husband to set up a home. Hester meets the Dimsdale, the town minister. Fighting the obvious attraction they feel for one another, they bond over their love of books and the written word. They will inevitably have an affair, Hester becomes pregnant, and is forced to live in shame and humiliation with a red letter A pinned to her chest. She refuses to reveil her child's father's identity, and the good reverand lives in secret shame over their affair. <
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>I gave this movie a shot thinking that as the book (yes, I read the book, Ms. Moore!) begins with Hester being in prison having just had her child. I was looking forward to seeing how the relationship began, but it was trite. Their love for one another is obvious, I'm surprised no one suspected things. The story falls apart from there, as we get into an odd subplot with the tensions between the native Algonquin Indians (which was not in the book). Hester's husband comes to America, as promised, and is captured by the natives. Thinking him dead allows Hester to indulge in the affair with the minister which she didn't seem to have much concern for in the book. There is no concern on the part of the good reverand for relations between his community and that of the natives, and, certainly none on the part of Hester's husband in condeming his unfaithful wife and her child. I won't go from there about how the rest of the story deviates from the book and goes into a poor movie, because that's what it was, poor. <
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>If they had devised this plot as an independent movie rather than saying it was based on the book, maybe it would have done a bit better. But because they attached Hawthorne's name to it, it was a huge disappointment.