A Letter to the Director of Divergent :)

Dear Director - of - Divergent - the - Move,

Was it really that difficult to find a semi attractive 18 year old with blue eyes who actually looks like Four?

I mean, at least give the dude blue colored contacts so you don’t have to deal with all the book nerds blowing up your Twitter and Facebook pages.. or am I the only one who would actually do that?

Don’t get me wrong here, Theo James is hot, but Four is 18 not almost 30.

Swap Tris’ and Christina’s heights.

Have Al gain about 100 lbs.

Tris’ Mom has blonde hair, not brown.

Whatever happened to Eric’s long stringy brown hair and way too many facial piercings?

And Jeanine’s “layer of pudge” because I must admit I was rather looking forward to that. It would have been funny. You changed the ending, too, where she was concerned. Tris and Four are supposed to be alone in the control room.

What about Edward’s tragedy and Al’s hopeless crush on Tris and Christina’s love for Will?

Oh and the chocolate cake. How could you have cut out the Dauntless Chocolate Cake?

What happened to Christina’s jealousy of Tris, and the danger in Dauntless initiation? How Peter forgets he is holding a loaded gun and Four taunts Tris to embolden her and the nameless girl who dies jumping off the train. 

Uriah. Where is he? How do you eliminate an entire character like that?

Tris isn’t pretty in the book, and in a way, that’s kind of the point. She’s not pretty but then again, you don’t have to be “pretty” in order to be strong or important or loved. And that is beautiful. 

You missed Four’s impossible charm and the varied sides of him we are shown in the book, all of which you discarded for the sake of … i don’t know.. time?

Because yes, it would have taken far more time, and yet, I think it would have been worth it to stay true to the book. Because those of us who originally fell in love with the book and only came to see the movie because it was based on the book, are now disappointed because it is really nothing like the book.

I mean, while you did stay true to the initial plot line, (kudos by the way, for that..a lot of movies don’t *cough* Narnia *cough*), you misrepresented the characters which in a way is almost worse than changing the plot line altogether!

At least, that’s my way of thinking about it.

<3 Tirzah