What's the Difference between The Dark Fields the Book and Limitless the Movie?
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In the Movie |
Eddie Spinola
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Eddie Morra
Portrayed by: Bradley Cooper
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Carl Van Loon
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Carl Van Loon
Portrayed by: Robert DeNiro
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This Character does not appear.
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Lindy
Portrayed by: Abbie Cornish
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In the Movie |
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This doesn't happen. |
After meeting with Melissa, Eddie is very sick and goes to Lindy's office. He needs her to get his pills. She goes to her apartment when he stashed them. She is being followed, so Eddie tells her to take a pill. She does and uses her sharpened mind to escape. Then she dumps Eddie. |
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The Secretary of Defense and the head of the drug company that made MDT are brothers. |
Neither of these people is mentioned.
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When Eddie meets Vernon on the street he notes that Eddie has gained a lot of weight, and Vernon is balding. |
Eddie is think and Vernon has a full head of hair. |
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Eddie meets with Carl and has taken MDT-48 and is briefing Carl on the best way to handle the merger. Carl is impressed, but before Hank gets there Eddie hears someone talking behind him about Donatella Alvarez. She has been hit in the head and is in a coma. She was found in a hotel room downtown. Eddie takes off. |
Eddie wakes up and is totally unprepared for the meeting. He doesn't take an NZT-48. He tries to get out of the meeting, but Doyle insists. He meets Carl and has a terrible meeting. He sees on a TV that the blonde has been murdered. He leaves and pukes on the sidewalk.
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Eddie talks to Bob Holland, a man who day trades on the internet to learn the ins and out of how to do it. He goes home and uses the left over money to start trading. He has $7000 dollars to start. He buys a bunch of stocks and makes $13,000 in profit his first day. He pushes his earnings to $35,000 the second day. |
Eddie just decides to start playing the stock market. He uses $800 dollars from Vernon's money and starts trading. He makes $2000 the first day and $7500 the next day. |