What's the Difference between Beautiful Creatures the Book and Beautiful Creatures the Movie?
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In the Movie |
Lena
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Lena
Portrayed by: Alice Englert
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Ethan
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Ethan
Portrayed by: Alden Ehrenreich
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Beautiful Creatures Book vs Movie
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In the Movie |
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Ethan is a sophmore. |
He is a junior. |
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Ethan has dreams to meet a girl. |
He is applying to multiple colleges so he can get out of Gatlin.
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Marian is a librarian and one of Ethan's mother's best friends. |
Marian doesn't exist. This role is added to Amma. |
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Ethan's father is always around to remind him about how bad things are in his home life because of the death of his mother. |
His father is never seen.
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Lena drives a black hearse. |
Her car is an old yellow Mercedes Benz. |
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Ethan Carter Wate is brought back from the dead by a forbidden spell. He dies again a few moments later.
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After Genevieve brings him back he is alive, but she is the one who kills him because of her switch to the dark side.
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Ethan and Lena are able to have telepathic conversations which they refer to as "Kelting". |
They do not communicate in this way. |
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Macon is an Incubus. |
This isn't mentioned.
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This doesn't happen. |
Macon magically forces Ethan to imagine his future and the results aren't good. |
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Macon goes to Ethan's bedroom to warn him to stay away from his niece, Lena |
He goes to steal parts of his dreams.
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Mrs. Lincoln tells Macon that she is Lena's mother near the end of the story. |
This is revealed in the middle. |
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The Duchannes never know if they'll be good or evil when they turn 16. That is the curse. |
Lena must kill a person she loves in order to break the curse.
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If Lena becomes a dark witch all the light witches will die. If she becomes light, the dark will die.
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This won't happen. She will just become a powerful evil witch. |
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Ethan remembers everything about his time with Lena. |
She uses a spell to wipe his memory after they dance in the woods.
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Ethan is stabbed to death by Sarafine. |
Ridley uses magic to get Link, Ethan's best friend to shoot him with a real bullet in place of a blank during the Civil War reenactment. |
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Ethan keeps hearing a song called "Sixteen Moons" which no one but Lena can hear. |
The song is not in the movie.
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Lena and Ethan feel a spark when they touch, and it nearly kills Ethan on several occasions. |
Lena and Ethan have no problems touching. |
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Ridley uses her powers to attempt to make Ethan's dad to jump of a building. |
This is not mentioned
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Macon has a caster dog named Boo Radley so he can keep an eye on Lena. |
The dog is not mentioned |
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Lena has a cousin named Ryan a 10 year old with a healing power who saved Ethan and Lena a few times when they take it to far. |
Ryan is not casted
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Hunter who is Macon's brother shows up when Sarafine tries to make Lena be a Dark Caster instead of a light one on her 16th birthday |
Hunter is not casted |
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Lena's birthday is the 11th of February |
Lena's birthday is the 21st December
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Ethan and Lena sees Genevieve's past through the locket. |
This doesn't happen. |
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In the last chapter of the book, it shows Macon's funeral. |
The last part of the movie, Lena had an amnesia.
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