Mademoiselle Fraise
Differences from book to movie (Highlight):
-Howl plays a guitar horribly and owns a human skull (The scarecrow's to be precise).
-Sophie has red gold/ginger hair.
-Calcifer has a blue face, green hair and purple spiky teeth and likes seaweed.
-Howl doesn't turn into a bird creature.
-Howl has short hair. . . I think.
-Sophie talks life into things. And she talks to inanimate objects.
-The witch of the waste is not a slow-moving hideous blob, but extremely beautiful, and evil all the way through the book.
-Michael is 15, and in love with Martha disguised as Lettie.
-Howl is in love with the real Lettie, disguised as Martha.
-The coloured thing with colours that lead to Porthaven, Kingsbury etc. are blobs on wood above the doorknob.
-Howl is welsh.
-Howl has two surnames: Pendragon (Kingsbury) and Jenkins (Porthaven and Market Chipping)
-He prefers Pendragon.
-Howl plays a guitar horribly and owns a human skull (The scarecrow's to be precise).
-Sophie has red gold/ginger hair.
-Calcifer has a blue face, green hair and purple spiky teeth and likes seaweed.
-Howl doesn't turn into a bird creature.
-Howl has short hair. . . I think.
-Sophie talks life into things. And she talks to inanimate objects.
-The witch of the waste is not a slow-moving hideous blob, but extremely beautiful, and evil all the way through the book.
-Michael is 15, and in love with Martha disguised as Lettie.
-Howl is in love with the real Lettie, disguised as Martha.
-The coloured thing with colours that lead to Porthaven, Kingsbury etc. are blobs on wood above the doorknob.
-Howl is welsh.
-Howl has two surnames: Pendragon (Kingsbury) and Jenkins (Porthaven and Market Chipping)
-He prefers Pendragon.
lol 'the witch of the waste is not a slow-moving hideous blob,' beautifully said.
Narahki
Highlight to view spoilersMarkl/Michael doesn't fall in love with Lettie. He falls in love with Martha. Michael, and every one else, just think that Martha's Lettie because Martha and Lettie switch places. Martha uses a spell to make herself look like Lettie, but it slowy wears off after time. She also uses Lettie's name. Lettie still looks the same and she keeps her own name.
-Howl doesn't fall in love with Martha. He falls in love with the real Lettie.
Here are some other diffrences from the book:
-Howl has a guitar. Which he plays very badly.
-The Wich isn't extremly ugly and fat in the book.
-There was a dog-man but no weird dog.
-There's a cloak that turns the wearer into a Horse.
-In the book, Clacifer looks nothing like what he looks like in the movie. First of all, he's blue.
umm...that's all for now.
-Howl doesn't fall in love with Martha. He falls in love with the real Lettie.
Here are some other diffrences from the book:
-Howl has a guitar. Which he plays very badly.
-The Wich isn't extremly ugly and fat in the book.
-There was a dog-man but no weird dog.
-There's a cloak that turns the wearer into a Horse.
-In the book, Clacifer looks nothing like what he looks like in the movie. First of all, he's blue.
umm...that's all for now.
MemoryDragon
Some other differences (spoilers will be in white):
Calcifer gives Sophie hints on how to break the pact. These hints were given in the form of the curse from the Witch in the movie. (Though I like Calcifer's versions better. "He's quite heartless, you know.")
Sophie talks to inanimate objects (Which makes them come to life/have a spell. She unconsciously uses the power of words through out the entire book, without really understand it until somewhere near the end.)
Madame Suliman is actually not a character in the book. (She is a variation of Mrs Pentstemmon, Howl's teacher and takes the last name from another character, the book's scarecrow. In the book, Mrs Pentstemmon dies at the hands of the Witch of Waste and Howl insists on going to her funeral, even though he is scared stiff of the Witch.)
War was not a big theme in the book. (This amused me. There was a war going on in the book, but it was so minor it's almost not worth mentioning. Complete background talk.)
Howl is a dynamic character in the movie, static in the book. (Though they don't really show Howl's bad side too much in the movie, he does stop running away. In the novel, he is still a coward. This is proven in the second book. Sophie says he's "sly and selfish and vain as a peacock and cowardly, and you can't pin him down to anything." Of course, when Abdullah mentions how she's listing his vices, she says that's just describing Howl. xd )
The black door was much different in the novel. (As mentioned previously, it leads to Howl's home in modern day Wales. All the more reason to love Howl. He's Welsh. heart )
That's all I can think of at the moment. I'll let you know if I can think of any more.
Oh, here's a good site listing the characters and summeries of Diana Wynne Jones' novels. The Diana Wynne Jones Wiki
Calcifer gives Sophie hints on how to break the pact. These hints were given in the form of the curse from the Witch in the movie. (Though I like Calcifer's versions better. "He's quite heartless, you know.")
Sophie talks to inanimate objects (Which makes them come to life/have a spell. She unconsciously uses the power of words through out the entire book, without really understand it until somewhere near the end.)
Madame Suliman is actually not a character in the book. (She is a variation of Mrs Pentstemmon, Howl's teacher and takes the last name from another character, the book's scarecrow. In the book, Mrs Pentstemmon dies at the hands of the Witch of Waste and Howl insists on going to her funeral, even though he is scared stiff of the Witch.)
War was not a big theme in the book. (This amused me. There was a war going on in the book, but it was so minor it's almost not worth mentioning. Complete background talk.)
Howl is a dynamic character in the movie, static in the book. (Though they don't really show Howl's bad side too much in the movie, he does stop running away. In the novel, he is still a coward. This is proven in the second book. Sophie says he's "sly and selfish and vain as a peacock and cowardly, and you can't pin him down to anything." Of course, when Abdullah mentions how she's listing his vices, she says that's just describing Howl. xd )
The black door was much different in the novel. (As mentioned previously, it leads to Howl's home in modern day Wales. All the more reason to love Howl. He's Welsh. heart )
That's all I can think of at the moment. I'll let you know if I can think of any more.
Oh, here's a good site listing the characters and summeries of Diana Wynne Jones' novels. The Diana Wynne Jones Wiki
ooooh. THAT was a hint? (I meant 'He's quite heartless, you know.')
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