What's the Difference between Midnight Express the Book and Midnight Express the Movie?
In the Book |
In the Movie |
Billy Hayes
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Billy Hayes
Portrayed by: Brad Davis
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Midnight Express Book vs Movie
In the Book |
In the Movie |
Billy spent 17 days in the prison's psychiatric hospital. He was not sent there because of a violent outburst. |
Billy snaps and beats Rifki and bites his tongue out of his mouth. Because of this attack he is sent to a section for the Criminally Insane. |
Billy was moved to an island prison from which he escaped. |
He escaped from Sagmalcilar prison where he had been all along.
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This didn't happen. |
Billy accidently kills Hamidou while he is attempting to rape him. |
Billy escaped the island prison by swimming accross the water to his freedom. |
Billy took the uniform of the dead warden and walked out the front gate of the prison.
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