What's the Difference between The Sum of All Fears the Book and The Sum of All Fears the Movie?
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Jack Ryan
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Jack Ryan
Portrayed by: Ben Affleck
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The Sum of All Fears Book vs Movie
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The book takes place in the early 1990s before the dissolution of the Soviet Union. |
The movie takes place in 2002. |
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The farmer who finds the bomb in his field asks his son to remove it. His son gives it to the terrorists. |
The farmer who finds the bomb in his field sells it to a scrap dealer, who sells it to Dressler.
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American and Soviet soldiers attack each other in Berlin. (Note: at the time of the book's writing, Germany had been reunified but Russian soldiers would remain in Germany until 1994.) |
There is no US-Soviet battle in Berlin. (Note: The film takes place in 2002, eight years after the last Russian troops left Germany.) |
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Gunther Bock, a rogue German terrorist, is a former East-German Communist. He works alongside other German, Arab, and American Indian terrorists. |
Richard Dressler, a rogue German terrorist, is a neo-Nazi who works with fellow neo-Nazis.
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Cabot has little trouble with the President's national security team. |
Cabot is mocked by the President's national security team during a briefing. |