i finish read the book the power of one and yesterday at 6pm . i saw the movie yesterday at 10 pm . i should have wait a little bit longer . usually i first see the movie and then and the book it be base on and a not to get disappoint by the difference in it . i should have keep follow the rule . the movie the power of one be a perfect example of how a producer can buy a story and lent it to a screenwriter who shred it to piece and then give it to a director who mutilate it even more . i be angry at how the book be mistreat . angry at how so many character be eliminate from the screen and angry at how many of the one leave be change and angry at how the story be fold and twist and change for no reason at all and meet no objective whatsoever . kill character before time and change name and cut important scene and and create some that do not even come in the book and thus look artificially insert . i know it standard procedure for hollywood to change a book in order to fit it necessity . but what have they do to this story be a criminal deed . it will always and forever be know that the first version of this book be put into screen in such a horrible way . i feel so angry . my book and my story . the 513 page i be so eager to read every night and every break i have and be go . the book be about the power of one . of how a man can change it life and not depend on others if he want to and or depend on others if he want to . to live your life at full extent . not to fear thing that be not worth fear . that what it be about . the book be not about apartheid and teaching black people . it not about box and eight punch combination . it not about music and a mule name beethoven . it about person . it about a person . the movie totally miss that . why change the uncommon and the singular and the unique mythic name give to peekay of the tadpole angel and to one a clumsy and over use and simple and obvious a the rainmaker . the make the character of doc a wimpy old guy who at the first chance abandon peekay . in the book he be a powerful mentor that stick to his protege . he be the father figure . peekay mom be not around sufficient enough . mrs. boxall and mrs. bornstein and gert and marie and dee and dum and mevrou hettie . all those character you learn to appreciate ( not love ) and be go in screen . morris levy and hoppie greenvald be transform into something else besides what they be in the book . the character of maria marais be make up for the movie . there be no need for that . how cheap . how low . how commercial . just let me tell you this represent the director and the producer and whoever be in charge of the actor at the time and waste away the presence of armin muehler stahl a doc and morgan freeman a geel piet and sir john gielgud a singnburns with such tiny little useless appearance . that alone and be a sin in the cinema universe . they three must have read the book and expect their character to be the figure they have read about . peekay be a superb and excelse student and athlete and human . he have a pure innocence and will and love . nothing of that sort be in the movie . they present him a a punchable boxer ( he be untouchable in the book and but because he really make an effort ) who have no problem with money ( he have to struggle even to get school stationary in the book ) and who care not one bit about the rainmaker ( tadpole angel in the book and where he do and fully accept the honor ) . his determination to be the welterweight champion of the world ( the representation of his desire to be unafraid and to be independent and to fulfill his power ) be nowhere to be see on screen . i wasn not surprise to see the end of bryce courtnay book change a 100 % . hopefully and the author of the book express his strong discontent to the the movie maker about the treatment of his work . justice must be do and a remake must be film . the story can be do show it richness onscreen .