Shutter Island: where to start reading
Adapts Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane. Say how far you watched, and pick the book up exactly there.
at Shutter Island.
Scorsese adapts the whole of Lehane's standalone novel in one film, keeping its setting and cast. The most-cited changes are matters of scale and pace: a bigger, more cinematic island, a faster-solved note, and a Teddy who reads as more sympathetic on screen than on the page. It's a self-contained story with no sequel.
The movie draws on this book. Read the full story:
Shutter Island
What the movies changed here
- ChangedThe film's island is far larger and more scenic than the novel's, which describes a small, claustrophobic strip of land.
- ChangedTeddy is written softer and more sympathetic on screen; the novel gives him a harsher, more unforgiving edge.
- ChangedDecoding Rachel Solando's note takes real time and detective work in the novel; the film has Teddy solve it much faster.
- ChangedThe novel is a slower, more introspective mystery; the film moves at a faster clip with heavier gothic, Hitchcock-style styling.
Martin Scorsese's 2010 film adapts the whole of Dennis Lehane's standalone 2003 novel in a single pass, keeping its setting and cast. The most-cited differences are matters of scale and pace: a more cinematic island, a marshal played a little warmer on screen, and a faster-moving, more stylized gothic-thriller treatment of the same story.
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