Stratt's characterisation in the film was very different. She came off as just another member of the hail mary team instead of the badass inhuman utilitarian boss she was in the book. A change for the worse IMO, though I think I'm in the minority there as one of her new scenes is supposedly very popular.

Grace was also quite different for that matter, though I'm more conflicted about that change.

[–] white_nrdy@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Agreed on the stratt change. They seemingly watered her down a ton. It is what it is though. They also cut out a lot of the prep side if the mission. However they would have to cut something, it was already a 2.5 hour movie 🤣

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 23 hours ago

Making Stratt a little more sympathetic and likeable probably wasn't a bad idea for the translation to the screen. They did the same thing with Annie and Mitch in The Martian. Book!Annie is - when the cameras aren't running - a foul mouthed abrasive asshat. Movie!Annie is a somewhat impatient jerk. Book!Mitch is a sledgehammer of a man, Movie!Mitch is a broody snotrag, I legitimately didn't recognize Sean Bean's character as Mitch Henderson.

Book!Stratt is, in Andy Weir's words, "A badass ice cube in heels." She's one of very few characters I can think of who is an unambiguously good person, and also thoroughly ruthless. She has a habit of taking possession of people...and biomes...she deems useful. She gets a humanizing and sobering "why I'm like this" speech near the end that works well in a novel but I don't know if it would play as well on screen.

[–] Dalvoron@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

I'll take a 4 hour director's cut any day!