Hey guys! I'm Brittany. I've been kind of in a weird head space today, but I decided
we could all probably use a break from current events so let's talks about dogs
So this book right here has spend 7 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list
It is currently at number 2 for paperback fiction
It was adapted into a film starring Britt Robertson, Dennis Quaid, Peggy Lipton, Josh Gad and
and a bunch of other fantastic people
The basic premise of the story is that there's this dog who keeps getting reincarnated.
into several different lives
and in each life that he lives he learns a new lesson, and he starts piecing these lessons together
to fulfill this ultimate purpose.
So without further ado, let's jump into my top changes. ALSO Things are gonna get pretty spoilery pretty
quickly, so if you care about that you might wanna leave
The dog's first life is lived as a stray
And in the book he learns this really important lesson from his mom of how to survive
basically on human trash and how to be very stealthy while doing it
And eventually the dog gets picked up with his brother and his mom to this family who's basically dog hoarders
And eventually the hoarding family gets caught and they get busted by the police.
And Toby is euthanized by the dog catchers
In the movie the dog's first life is glossed over. Like, VERY glossed over
It's barely a blip on the screen.
I wish they had shown the lesson that Toby learned from that life, which is
his mom teaching him how to survive without human contact. Cause..
In the dog's final life as Buddy, in the book and in the movie, it's the same, he's kind of
Abandoned by this family and he's trying to find his way back to Ethan
He's trying to smell him out. But in the book it's evident that the dog goes to great lengths to try to avoid
all human contact and not get picked up
And live on the street by himself
until he has enough time that he can figure out where Ethan is
and that was so moving and such a touching love letter to how much Bailey truly loved Ethan
And I felt like the emotional impact of how much the dog was kind of willing to go through to find Ethan
was really touching and a little bit lost in the movie
Number three, Ethan's antagonist - the nemesis to Ethan
So in the book and the movie, Todd is a morally bankrupt arsonist, but in the book he's way way
more twister. From the time they're little kids, Ethan andTodd kind of grow up together
And Todd is basically like Sid from a toy story
Todd blows up his sister's toys
And at one point in the book Todd actually dognaps Bailey and tries to kill him
His little sister steps in and rescues Bailey
But Todd later on successfully kills another neighborhood dog
like, he's so twisted.
So in the movie they took some of Todd's evilness and some of the antagonism that Ethan felt with Todd
and shifted it onto Ethan's dad.
They really amplified any tension that Ethan had with his Dad
And in the book, Ethan and his parents fight. In the movie it was way way worse
They added in that whole epic scene at the farm that culminates in Ethan's dad leaving permanently
And the movie makes it a lot clearer that Ethan's dad
has a debilitating alcohol addiction.
Number four, let's talk about Ethan and Bailey.
Ethan + Bailey = LOVE
Bailey has so much live for Ethan and
in the movie they add a few things in like when
Bailey escapes from the garage to be with Ethan
And with all the shenanigans with the coin collection
Get it out Bailey! Get it out!
In the book when Ethan is staying with his grandparents on their farm he gets left home alone
For just a little bit and he takes the horse and the dog and he goes on this really really long oudoor adventure
And he gets completely lost, like, mega lost
Eventually it gets really bad. They spend the night outside and Bailey actually saves Ethan's life