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What are your thoughts on Ian in the movie?

I personally thought the character of Ian in the movie was a little underdeveloped. He fell in love with Wanda abruptly like a creepy stalker. The O'Wanda relationship in the book took a lot of time to develop and grow into romance. But in the movie, they just fell in love all at once. I just thought it was kinda weird. Did anybody else feel this way as well?
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It was a 600+ page book made into a 125 minute movie. Everything seemed to move too fast, especially because much of the book involved thoughts and not actions. There's only so much they could do without leaving out important scenes.
pwooden posted over a year ago
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Yes, I think everybody feels like the movie was too fast-paced and skipped over several scenes. However, I still think Andrew Niccol could've done a better job with the whole thing. Not just the O'Wanda relationship, but the whole movie in general. But I can't hate on him too much, because it is a difficult task to narrow a 600 paged book into a two-hour-long movie.
Twilight1108 posted over a year ago
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agree
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mayra7632000 said:
I completely agree and not. Not because if you can get passed the fact that they're gonna make a 600+ page book into a short-amount-of-time film(compared to the time it takes to read it), you will see that it's not a bad film at all.(Not saying you thought it was bad :D) BUT ..I absolutely fell in love with Ian in the movie. Jake Abel matched the character so well and he definitely took the spotlight away from Jared(Max Irons), for me anyways. I totally agree on everything you said, but like I said if you can get passed that fact. =) I think it helps not to compare so much. Twilight definitely helped me with that issue.haha
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Yes, I guess that is true. You have a 600-paged book and you have to shrink it down to a 200-paged movie script. Obviously there's going to be a ton of things that get cut from the book, and there's not going to be enough room for certain characters (like Ian) to develop.
Twilight1108 posted over a year ago
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But once you get past that fact, I guess the O'Wanda relationship isn't all that bad. I totally agree with Jake Abel as Ian, so I don't have a problem with the actor, but I do wish they would've focused a little more on his character. But even so...I'm still Team Ian ;)
Twilight1108 posted over a year ago
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And they could have focused it more on them too. It was a pretty long movie too. I feel like they could've shown us so many things from the book, including their relationship.
mayra7632000 posted over a year ago
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I totally totally agree with you for Jake Abel. I seriously fell in love with Ian the way he portrayed him. I melted every time he was onscreen, just as I did whenever Ian showed up in the book. He totally too the spotlight away! Well done and standing "O" to Jake Abel as Ian :)
tWiLiGht_lUVEr1 posted over a year ago
Graylu_Nalu said:
To be certain I really love his and Wanda's relationship but never taught that it'll turns up to be quite quirky in the movie not to mention that Ian almost looked like a stalker and was easily captivated by Wanda... or so like that?
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posted over a year ago 
hosters said:
I feel the same way! It seems like Wanda just got to the caves and like a second later, they confess they like each other. Ian also has a lot of good quotes in the book that they didn't incorporate in the movie, like "I held you in my hand, Wanderer, and you were so beautiful" and "good or bad?" They could've at least added "good or bad"
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posted over a year ago 
Max277 said:
Well i wasnt obbsessed with Ian at all i thought he was like weird just a bit. I mean i read the whole book and one moment he was trying to kill Wanda/Mel and the next moment he was all googley eyed and head of heels for Wanda. I was like Wth? I was more forcused on Jared & Melanie's thoughts and feelings.
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AlwaysWeird said:
I totally agree, everything in the movie was so very abrupt and sudden that you sort of miss the emotional reaction you get from the book. Me, I think the movie was a total bust. And very disappointing.
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