"The Beach"

she's waaaay hotter in the beach, so is her boyfriend. way hotter than friggin dicaprio.

 

yeah that chick is really hot. i dont remember what her boyfriend in the beach looked like but i do remember not finding him very attractive.

 

Then:



Now:

 

he's cute. way cuter than leo.

 

I used to have the worst crush on leo when I was a kid. but now I think the other one is sexier

 

yeah i dont really dig him, i think leo's way cuter. haha i just completely reverted back to 7th grade with that sentence.

 

:svengo:

 

but still no tv, internet, cellphones, hospital and having to take a boat everywhere you go would sucks....plus if you remember one of fisherman died because they couldn't get him to a hospital for fear he would open his mouth. IDK think i would get bored after a few months.

 

It's a pretty cool movie, if highly unrealistic, and at times downright stupid.

You would have to look pretty hard to find a beautiful tropical island that wasn't already claimed for tourism.

Maya Bay is a very pretty place, but it's not quite like in the movie.. full of tourists, like any accessible island with so much natural beauty.

 

I loved the book. I watched the film once in the cinema when it came out and vowed never to watch that pile of shit again.

 

True enough.
I guess, also, it's not worth discussing poetic licence and dramatic devices, because the reality would be very different.

 

I saw the movie first and found it intriguing but kind of incomplete and unsatisfying. So I went and read the book and it's a masterpiece. Looking back on the movie there were some really bad changes Like when Francoise breaks up with Etienne to hook up with Richard, yeah that doesn't happen in the book and it's one of the most beautifully written stories of a heart ache I know. I wonder if the Hollywood studio couldn't comprehend the idea of two attractive main characters that don't have sex in a movie and they forced the change upon the movie. Danny Boyle is a good director who usually makes better decisions than that.

Oh and in regards to the original post the story is about how the Utopian beach community can't survive forever and to idealize it is misinterpreting the story.