One thing that was different between the movie adaptation, and the actually story; was that the old man wasn't by the window where he was supposed to be. It bothered me a lot that he wasn't sitting by the window, because in the story it was this whole big thing that he was in the shadow of the leaves on the trees. When they were filming, yes, it may have been difficult to either sit him down outside or actually by the window. But, it shouldn't matter, if you are going to make a movie off of a story line that is already written you should have made it the way the story goes.
Not having the old man sitting by a window wasn't the only thing that bothered me. But, out of the couple of things that I did like about the adaptation, my favorite was probably when the younger waiter was serving the old man and was stomping his feet on the floor. I found this to be one of the best parts of the film because you wouldn't have really thought that he was doing that from reading the actually story. I felt like it stood for that he was really angry at the elderly man because he wasn't going home; so he just stomped across the cafe. Both of these things where very important parts to this story, and it was done and written quite well.
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