The Glass Castle Movie Analysis

The book version of The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is more effective compared to the film. The film was released on August 11, 2017 the stars that took on the roles are Brie Larson as Jeannette Walls with Naomi Watts as Rosemary, Woody Harrelson as Rex, Max Greenfield as David (Jeannettes husband), and Sarah Snook as Lori, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and written by Cretton, Andrew Lanham, and Marti Noxon. It is about four siblings learning how to take care of themselves while also taking care of their alcoholic father who constantly lies to them and is destructive but when he becomes sober he is always doing some adventurous thing and is always planning and adding to the blueprints for the glass castle, while trying to distract the kids of their poverty. Meanwhile, on the other hand their mother is more calm and to herself and is constantly painting, ignoring her role as a mother in the family. My take on the film is that the actors performed a carefully balanced performance of tears and laughter, showing a deep understanding of the father-daughter bond and the sometimes downside to a family here are my reasons for this. …show more content…
I have never personally read a book then watched the movie for it so this was a first for me I do think that the book was the best and did go more into detail on events and dived in deeper into emotions of the characters and how they actually felt during that moment. My thoughts on the film are that I do think the actors chosen for the characters were very well chosen even though Jeannette Walls was not involved of the making of the film. I personally think out of all the characters Rex played by Woody Harrelson was the best character of all and was played amazing in the film he didn't just try to impersonate Rex he became Rex. The director did personally speak with her to get details on scenes because he was passionate about making the scenes authentic, he wanted to make people that viewed the movie to think about their families not hers. The film really captured the good and the bad of the Walls family. In the article Why ‘Wonder,’ the Movie, Can’t Best the Book It’s Based On by Maria Russo she was comparing the book and the film version of Wonder. Maria mentioned that the book versus the movie battle is not a fair fight because the visual is the best for our senses, that’s why literary-minded people scoff at the movie versions of books. One could argue that the film version is better but there was one scene that stuck with me in the book that I wanted to see in the film. The scene was in the beginning when Jeannette was young and hungry. “I could hear Mom in the next room singing while she worked on one of her paintings. Juju, our black mutt, was watching me. I stabbed one of the hot dogs with a fork and bent over and offered it to him.” (Walls 11). She felt a blaze of heat on her right side and she screamed for her mother and her mom ran into the room and she came with a army surplus blanket and they got the whole family except dad and went to the neighbors house told her what happened