Tonight November 14 at 12.10 on Rai Movie the film “The Longest Ride”, the romantic-drama directed by George Tillman Jr. and written by the same author of the novel from which it is based, will be broadcasted, Nicholas Sparks. The film compares two generations and consequently two different love affairs, exploring the challenges and the infinite rewards of a long and lasting love story. The answer is in the stars
The protagonist of “The Answer is in the Stars” and the love story between Luke, a former rodeo champion who tries to return to competitions and Sophia, a student who is about to embark on her dream job in the art world in New York. Just as their relationship is severely tested by conflicting ambitions and ideals, Sophia and Luke unexpectedly stumble upon Ira, whose memory of their decades-long romance with their beloved wife will deeply inspire and shake the young couple.
The film, as well as the novel to which it is inspired, reminds us that even the most difficult decisions can be the beginning of an extraordinary journey, because men’s feelings and secrets travel impossible paths. Differences between novel and film
The book “The answer is in the stars” begins with Ira who, after having ended up with the car in a ravine, to survive clings to the memories of his love together with Ruth; so we move from the first-person narration to the memory of dialogues between Ruth and Ira regarding their past. The film, on the other hand, opens with Luke’s accident, then a one-year time jump occurs where the story takes place. Also in the novel the stories between Ruth and Ira and between Sophia and Luke are separate and meet only in the last pages, while in the film this happens much earlier with Sophia and Ira bonding deeply after the accident.
In the film there is no mention of Brian, Sophia’s ex-boyfriend who in the novel favored the meeting between her and Luke. In the book and on the same evening they met that Sophia and Luke got into his pickup to look at the stars, in the film this only happens on the first date. The name of the bull that caused Luke’s accident in the novel and Big Ugly Critter in the film and Rango.
In the book, Luke’s second accident is with the mechanical bull during a workout and not in the arena, and in the book it doesn’t end up in the hospital; besides she Sophia hadn’t received a job offer in New York, so she doesn’t have to choose between love and career. In the book, Sophia and Luke, who broke up after his accident, make peace before the auction, while in the film they go to the auction separately as they are still in a quarrel.
In the book, the pupil Ruth wanted to adopt was called Daniel McCallum and not McDonald, as in the film. At the end of the novel Luke and Sophia had to sell half of the paintings for debt and look to their future, still not fully aware of what life will offer them but sure they want to face it together, instead the film ends with Sophia running a gallery of art and lives with Luke fulfilling the wishes of both.
Source: Wikipedia
