The Joy Luck Club: Novel vs. Movie

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan was a very intriguing and exhilarating novel. I was very curious to see how the moviemakers were going to transform this amazing novel onto the big screen while still maintaining Amy Tan’s original themes and concepts. Now, obviously, there are going to be a lot of similarities, considering the movie was based on the novel, but what I seemed to notice was the differences. Some of the major differences that I noticed included the varying formats of the movie from the novel, the organization of the stories, and the specifics of the given stories. These differences didn’t have a major effect on the movie’s similarities to the book, but they do show how the book, originally, was better than the movie.
During the opening credits I noticed Amy Tan’s name a lot. She was not only included under the title based on the novel written by, but also (if I recall correctly) as a...