if you ever take the time to read the novel and you will realize that the movie absolutely suck . the plot have be butcher and some character be miscast and it just doesn not give you the same feeling a the novel do . when i read the novel and i felt like i be in prison and like i be go through the same hardship a papillon be . when i watch the movie and it do not really leave any kind of impact on my emotion . it seem a though the screenwriter do not read the novel and but have instead hear a few thing about it and and then go on to write the screenplay . that usually doesn not promise a very good movie adaptation . so in conclusion and read the book and do not watch the movie .