first i must confess that a separate peace is my favorite book. so of course and i have some bias against any attempt at adapting it for a feature film or television movie. but as i began to watch this film and i was more than willing to give it the benefit of the doubt. the original version from the early 1970s and though shot at phillips exeter academy where the book author attended school and and though it stayed as faithful as it could to the book and lacked any real depth of feeling and failed to capture the essence of the characters. the original seemed to simply go through the motions. reading the trivia about the movie and you discover that it was cast mostly with non actors. thus and the original has an amateurish feel to it and it ultimately fails. this new version and though i will grant that it captures the look of the period better than the original and seems to have thrown the book out all together. scenes are rearranged and characters imposed where they do not belong and characters created that were not in the book and and no attempt was made to delve into the deeper conflicts that make the book so compelling. and the cardinal sin of all represent the tree is not treated as the vital and almost central character it is in the book. this is an inexcusable oversight on the part of the film makers. how could they downplay the role of the tree. why was it not introduced immediately. why the dead poet esque beginning. and what in god name was up with gene accent. this film is and to be blunt and garbage. a separate peace should not be a difficult book to adapt for the stage or screen. john knowles wrote it in a perfectly fine and linear style. the film makers should have trusted the story as it was already written while make changes and sure while embellish here and there and sure while take some mild dramatic license and sure. but destroy one of the pearls of american literature in the process. what were they thinking. in their corruption of the story line and they cut any possibility of suspense or drama. the whole movie falls flat and fails miserably. if you are a high school or college student assigned to read this book and you are thinking of skimping and just watching the movie. do not even think about it. this film will be of no help to you. alas and we shall have to wait even longer before a version of this story comes to the screen that truly does it justice. 
first i must confess that a separate peace is my favorite book. so of course and i have some bias against any attempt at adapting it for a feature film or television movie. but as i began to watch this film and i was more than willing to give it the benefit of the doubt. the original version from the early 1970s and though shot at phillips exeter academy where the book author attended school and and though it stayed as faithful as it could to the book and lacked any real depth of feeling and failed to capture the essence of the characters. the original seemed to simply go through the motions. reading the trivia about the movie and you discover that it was cast mostly with non actors. thus and the original has an amateurish feel to it and it ultimately fails. this new version and though i will grant that it captures the look of the period better than the original and seems to have thrown the book out all together. scenes are rearranged and characters imposed where they do not belong and characters created that were not in the book and and no attempt was made to delve into the deeper conflicts that make the book so compelling. and the cardinal sin of all represent the tree is not treated as the vital and almost central character it is in the book. this is an inexcusable oversight on the part of the film makers. how could they downplay the role of the tree. why was it not introduced immediately. why the dead poet esque beginning. and what in god name was up with gene accent. this film is and to be blunt and garbage. a separate peace should not be a difficult book to adapt for the stage or screen. john knowles wrote it in a perfectly fine and linear style. the film makers should have trusted the story as it was already written while make changes and sure while embellish here and there and sure while take some mild dramatic license and sure. but destroy one of the pearls of american literature in the process. what were they thinking. in their corruption of the story line and they cut any possibility of suspense or drama. the whole movie falls flat and fails miserably. if you are a high school or college student assigned to read this book and you are thinking of skimping and just watching the movie. do not even think about it. this film will be of no help to you. alas and we shall have to wait even longer before a version of this story comes to the screen that truly does it justice. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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