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When The Maze Runner novel was translated to film, the filmmakers left out Thoma

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Question

When The Maze Runner novel was translated to film, the filmmakers left out Thomas and Teresa's ability to speak telepathically. Some reasons for this may be

All of these selections A-D

None of these reasons/choices

because they were too lazy to bother figuring out how to do that in a film, and the filmmakers thought she was a boring character that the audience wouldn't want to spend a lot of time watching or hearing.

it saved time that was needed for other scenes; or it would have been a bit awkward to throw that in when there was no real need for it; and/or Teresa's part in the film had already been cut down quite a bit since the filmmakers chose to bring her into the film much later (more than a few days after Thomas arrived) than in the book (1 day after Thomas arrived), so they chose not to focus too much on her since they knew they would most likely be making the next book in the series where they could take more time to develop her character and her relationship with Thomas.

A.

All of these selections A-D

B.

None of these reasons/choices

C.

because they were too lazy to bother figuring out how to do that in a film, and the filmmakers thought she was a boring character that the audience wouldn't want to spend a lot of time watching or hearing.

D.

it saved time that was needed for other scenes; or it would have been a bit awkward to throw that in when there was no real need for it; and/or Teresa's part in the film had already been cut down quite a bit since the filmmakers chose to bring her into the film much later (more than a few days after Thomas arrived) than in the book (1 day after Thomas arrived), so they chose not to focus too much on her since they knew they would most likely be making the next book in the series where they could take more time to develop her character and her relationship with Thomas.

Explanation / Answer

The correct answer is option D

Explanation : The movie maze runner is based on a novel. Many of the parts were changed in the film and one of them being the part where both the protagonist could speak to each other telepathically. This is so because the narrative would then have been too long and would have taken up a lot of time as mentioned in option D

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