John Anderton Comparison

First of all, Tom Cruise not bald, nor fat and old. Meanwhile his character in the short story, John Anderton, is. It’s pretty clear to see why they would change it in the movie. A young, well-trained man gives the opportunity to use some amazing action in a movie, which felt like a huge need for the Minority Report.

The system of Precrime gets described very clearly and for most parts the movie followed the story, but I guess they weren’t really interested in the idea of cards so instead they used balls. I don’t think that this was such a big deal, but the tension gets build up more when you see a ball rolling, not knowing directly which name is on it.

Besides that they also decided to change a few characteristics of Precrime. ‘Precrime’ should be called ‘Premurder’ in the movie, because that’s apparently the only crime it can predict. In the short story, all sorts of crimes are being noticed by the Precrime system. They also changed the name of Agatha. I think this was to add something to their futuristic idea that they worked out. In the short story, it felt more of a story before my age, when people smoking pipes was the standard.

All of a sudden Anderton lives happily together with his wife, while they were divorced in the movie because of Sean and John’s work. Now that I’m talking

In the movie, Leo Crow isn’t even the villain, I’d give those compliments to the old guy. Kaplan is the real enemy here, who wants to overthrow the entire system. The Army were the real bad guys here, which immediately explains why the story changed so much. In the US, the Army is highly looked upon and making them seem like bad guys would’ve cost them a dozen of bad reviews. If you even think about the success of American Sniper last year, then consider what would’ve happened if the Army were not heroes but villains. It would’ve been a ground-breaking idea, but one that America is not ready for