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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })A 2013 film based on How I Live Now, a 2004 young adult novel by Meg Rosoff.Daisy (Saoirse Ronan) is a cynical 15-year-old with unspecified problems who is sent from New York to the English countryside to stay with her cousins. Living in a beautiful, ramshackle house and blissfully free of teacherly or parental restraints, Edmond, Isaac, Piper and their friend Joey are a wild but gentle crowd, at least one of whom, Edmond, seems to have actual magical powers. Wary at first, Daisy is soon entranced by their small private utopia. But meanwhile the outside world slides towards war. The kids blithely ignore it at first, but horror and violence are drawing ever closer.
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Adaptation Distillation: In the book, there was an older brother named Osbert - Osbert was removed and Edmond was aged up to Osbert's age. In the book, Issac and Edmond are twins - this is dropped. Also, in the book Daisy's struggles with anorexia and the health issues that come with it are a large element of her character development and even affect the plot—at first she is too weak to work at the farm until she builds up normal muscle mass. In the film, this is reduced to Daisy not eating meat or wheat, and one line about using her willpower to not eat chocolate.
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Adaptation Personality Change: The Piper of the film is notably more childish than the Piper of the book. Also, Isaac's personality is completely different; in the book, he's even quieter than Edmond and spends a lot of time watching over everyone, but in the film he's chatty and not at all dissimilar to most fourteen-year-old boys.
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Behind the Black: We see signs of the Great Offscreen War, and it does affect the protagonists; however we really only see its effects and not the actual war, nor much about who is fighting who or why.
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