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The Lovely Bones

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The Lovely Bones	comment	The Lovely Bones is the 2009 film adaptation of the novel of the same name, directed by Peter Jackson. It stars Saoirse Ronan, Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Stanley Tucci, and Susan Sarandon.In 1973, life is kind to Susie Salmon, a sweet and helpful 14-year-old high school freshman who dreams of becoming a photographer. One day though, she runs into her creepy neighbor, George Harvey, who coaxes her into an underground "kid's hideout" he has built. Inside, Susie grows uncomfortable and attempts to leave. Harvey grabs her and the scene fades until she is seen rushing past her alarmed classmate Ruth Connors, seemingly fleeing Harvey's den, only to discover that she's actually in the afterlife...After seeing the bloody bathroom and her bracelet hanging on the sink faucet, Susie realizes she never escaped the underground den and Harvey murdered her. While watching over her family and the way they deal with grief over her missing body as well as Ruth and her burgeoning love story with the boy she never got to kiss, Susie meets other victims of Harvey in the afterlife, which can morph into a happy paradise as she wishes.Tropes specific to the movie go here. For the book, see its dedicated page.
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The Lovely Bones / int_104beaad	comment	Face Cam: When Mr. Harvey is chasing Lindsey inside his house. This shot is featured in the trailer.
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The Lovely Bones / int_105cabdd	type	Jacob Marley Apparel
The Lovely Bones / int_105cabdd	comment	Jacob Marley Apparel: Played with in that Susie can change clothes when she wants, but her default clothes are the ones she wore when she died.
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The Lovely Bones / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
The Lovely Bones / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: Unlike in the book, where Susie's rape is recounted in great detail, it's left open whether or not she was raped before Harvey murdered her. A line about one of the other girls he killed says "he only wanted to touch her", implying that some form of rape was involved.
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The Lovely Bones / int_143b5e94	type	Loose Floorboard Hiding Spot
The Lovely Bones / int_143b5e94	comment	Loose Floorboard Hiding Spot: Lindsay breaks into Mr Harvey's house and finds his sketchbook hidden under a loose floorboard. It has a record of the investigation into Susie's disappearance. (In the book, it's on Mr Harvey's bed.)
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The Lovely Bones / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
The Lovely Bones / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: The trailers for the movie marketed the movie as some kind of thriller. It's more of an exploration of Susie's life in heaven and how her family copes with their grief and eventually learns to move on.
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The Lovely Bones / int_1b590025	type	Dead All Along
The Lovely Bones / int_1b590025	comment	Dead All Along: Played with - the audience knows Susie was murdered from the beginning, and she quickly learns that she was as well, but for a few minutes after fleeing from Mr. Harvey's underground lair, she thinks that she managed to escape alive - she only realizes she's actually dead when she has a vision of Harvey washing her blood off in the bath.
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The Lovely Bones / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
The Lovely Bones / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Peter Jackson himself has a very brief appearance the first time Jack goes to get Susie's film developed. Even better, he's making a home movie with a period video camera throughout the duration of his appearance.
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The Lovely Bones / int_1de5c038	type	Too Happy to Live
The Lovely Bones / int_1de5c038	comment	Too Happy to Live: Life is kind to Susie at the beginning... until she runs into Harvey.
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The Lovely Bones / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
The Lovely Bones / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: The moment Jack realizes the truth, he very nearly breaks down Mr. Harvey’s door, demanding he tell him what happened to Susie.
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The Lovely Bones / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Lovely Bones / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Movie only: Susie mentions the sinkhole at the Conners' farm in the beginning; near the end, Mr. Harvey dumps a safe with her body locked inside into it.
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The Lovely Bones / int_29e6dc40	type	HypocriticalHumour
The Lovely Bones / int_29e6dc40	comment	Hypocritical Humour: Clarissa and Susie talk about Othello and list everything wrong with it. When Ray asks her what she thought of it, she immediately says she thought it was amazing.
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The Lovely Bones / int_33987735	type	Disposing of a Body
The Lovely Bones / int_33987735	comment	Disposing of a Body: Susie's body is hidden in the safe that gets thrown into the sinkhole at the end. Except, of course, Harvey keeps her there for ages just to relive the pleasure of killing her.
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The Lovely Bones / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: Hal Heckler, Lindsey's boyfriend's older brother is absent from the film. Franny, Heaven's intake counselor is also not in the film.
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The Lovely Bones / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
The Lovely Bones / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Carolyn Dando's native New Zealand accent slips through when Ruth hands Ray the poem and says "I think this belongs to you."
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The Lovely Bones / int_3618ebb9	comment	The '60s: The first two scenes are set in the 60s.
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The Lovely Bones / int_3d64e6e9	type	Adaptational Comic Relief
The Lovely Bones / int_3d64e6e9	comment	Adaptational Comic Relief: Grandma Lynn provides a lot of comic relief in the middle of the film when she arrives to help her daughter out - but ends up causing all sorts of household disasters.
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The Lovely Bones / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
The Lovely Bones / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: Abigail in the book has an affair with the detective, which is left out of the film. She also returns home much earlier in the film than she does in the novel.note She still returns at the end but Buckley is still a child whereas in the novel she is gone for eight years In the book, Clarissa helped Brian beat up Jack in the cornfield - and in fact broke Jack's leg. In the film, she screams at him to stop, and seems worried Jack may have been killed.
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The Lovely Bones / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: The in-between has some very gorgeous scenery.
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The Lovely Bones / int_52488c54	type	Drowning My Sorrows
The Lovely Bones / int_52488c54	comment	Drowning My Sorrows: Grandma Lynn is always seen with a drink in her hand, implying that she's turning to the bottle to cope with Susie's death.
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The Lovely Bones / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The page quote above is said near the beginning and at the end of the movie.
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The Lovely Bones / int_557838d1	comment	Adaptational Attractiveness: A general example. Susie doesn't really like the 'in-between' and it only takes the form of the high school she never got to attend. The film depicts it as more of an overt fantasy world where Susie can do whatever she wants - although she quickly realises how empty it is.
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The Lovely Bones / int_5663a595	comment	Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole: Harvey keeping the safe until much later raises some decent questions about the police searching. In the book, he disposes of the safe mere days after having killed Susie. There were multiple times during the sweeps the police could have asked what was in it. He doesn't dispose of it until after the cops are looking for him, making it also a problem that should have helped get him caught. The sinkhole itself is also different. In the book its top layer is still mostly covered (large items start to sink but people are light enough to walk over it) with a hole that items can be sunk into. In the book the family that lives there, the Flanagans, take money for people to sink items down there so that they disappear. This was Harvey's main reason for choosing to ditch her body there. In the film version it is more a wide crater where you have to push things down into but various appliances are clearly still sitting above ground level making it a less suitable dumping ground.
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The Lovely Bones / int_580be152	comment	Adaptational Modesty: In Alice Sebold's original novel, a disturbing rape scene is recounted in great detail. Director Peter Jackson chose to omit this section of the book, feeling that the re-enactment of the ordeal would have not just overwhelmed the film, but been too traumatic a sequence for the young Saoirse Ronan to endure.note Supposedly her parents also insisted the scene be cut if their daughter was to do the film. Also in the novel Susie has sex with Ray while she's possessing Ruth. In the film it's only a kiss. Other lead up to sex scenes which help show Susie's Not Growing Up Sucks feelings towards sex are absent all together.
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The Lovely Bones / int_5a194444	type	But Not Too Bi
The Lovely Bones / int_5a194444	comment	But Not Too Bi: Ruth's Ambiguously Bi moments are left out of the film, with the only clue being an early scene where she gets in trouble for drawing a nude female body in class.
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The Lovely Bones / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: Not surprisingly, as the book is one of the type that is about growing with the cast. Less time passes in the film than in the book. For example, Buckley is all grown up by the end of the book but is still a child at the end of the film.
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The Lovely Bones / int_603f1a80	type	Pragmatic Adaptation
The Lovely Bones / int_603f1a80	comment	Pragmatic Adaptation: The order of some events is changed around to better fit a film's running time. Lindsey breaking into Harvey's house and forcing him to flee town becomes the climax, while Grandma Lynn coming to help the family and Abigail leaving happen much earlier. Jack's attack in the cornfield is now closer to the end, making a more film friendly conclusion to his arc of learning to let go. The assault from Brian is also combined with his heart attack for convenience purposes. Abigail's affair with Len Fenerman is removed (although it was filmed) and she returns home much sooner to make the character more sympathetic; as her own frustrations about giving up her dreams for motherhood might be hard to convey in the limited running time. The film still attempts to give her an arc about how she's dealing with Susie's death, and how she and Jack are being driven apart so that their reunion at the end feels like a happier ending. Susie's graphic rape and murder is toned down out of respect for the fourteen-year-old Saoirse Ronan - who would potentially be traumatised by having to film such a scene. The horror of what Harvey does to Susie is still conveyed through Nothing Is Scarier, and rape is implied by the line about Flora Hernandes ("he had only wanted to touch her").
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The Lovely Bones / int_629de9ad	type	'70s Hair
The Lovely Bones / int_629de9ad	comment	'70s Hair: Jack, Brian and Buckley have the typical just under shoulder length hair associated with the decade. Ray has an afro, Clarissa has 'Farrah hair' and Ruth and Abigail have long bangs swept to the side. Elsewhere averted with Susie and Lindsey, whose hairstyles wouldn't look out of place in the 2000s, and Grandma Lynn - who has a Jackie Kennedy-esque flick that's a holdover from the 60s.
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The Lovely Bones / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
The Lovely Bones / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: Mr. Harvey can be glimpsed in the background when Susie is shopping with Grandma Lynn at the mall. This ties in with Susie claiming he had been stalking her for a while.
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The Lovely Bones / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
The Lovely Bones / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: "You are beautiful, Susie Salmon" - first said by Ray when flirting with Susie after class. Repeated when she briefly comes back to Earth to have the first kiss she wanted with him.
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The Lovely Bones / int_6d9bc945	type	Babies Ever After
The Lovely Bones / int_6d9bc945	comment	Babies Ever After: The ending montage shows Lindsey pregnant.
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The Lovely Bones / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: The family dog Holiday dies in the book and joins Susie in the in-between. Grandma Lynn's death is also mentioned in the end epilogue but Susie had yet to meet her in heaven. Both are still alive by the film's end. This appears to be a side effect of compressing the book's 10-11 year time span, suggesting less time has passed in the film.
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The Lovely Bones / int_794f3589	type	Adaptation Explanation Extrication
The Lovely Bones / int_794f3589	comment	Adaptation Explanation Extrication: The significance of the icicle comes from a sequence in the book, where Susie describes it as the perfect murder weapon (because it melts away). This is eliminated from the film, but the icicle does still foreshadow how Mr Harvey meets his end. The book also clarifies that Susie doesn't know if Buckley can sense she's in the In-Between or is just making it up. Susie being able to briefly possess Ruth to have a moment with Ray is explained in the book as an exchange; Ruth gets to swap places with Susie and experience the In-Between while Susie is on Earth. We don't get confirmation if she still gets to in the film.
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The Lovely Bones / int_7eb49b31	comment	Almost Kiss: In the movie, Ray and Susie are about to kiss at school until a teacher and Ruth interrupt them in the hallway. Subverted in the book.
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The Lovely Bones / int_7efd2e30	comment	Expository Hairstyle Change: Abigail's longer hair is shoulder length when she returns home, having gotten over Susie's death. Abigail also has no bangs and Jack's hair is shorter in the introduction, to indicate it's a different time.
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The Lovely Bones / int_7f080f98	comment	Vague Age: Both Buckley and Lindsey by the end. The novel covers about eleven years altogether, but the timeline is definitely compressed in the film. Lindsey for example is played by a twenty-year-old actress, who's very obviously aged down in the early parts. Buckley remains a child in the film as well.
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The Lovely Bones / int_8186d60d	comment	Also in the novel Susie has sex with Ray while she's possessing Ruth. In the film it's only a kiss. Other lead up to sex scenes which help show Susie's Not Growing Up Sucks feelings towards sex are absent all together.
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The Lovely Bones / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Susan Sarandon's outrageous grandma.
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The Lovely Bones / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Lovely Bones / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Buckley vanishes in the third act of the film, which removes his Calling the Old Man Out when Abigail returns home.
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The Lovely Bones / int_86ae1278	comment	Adaptational Dumbass: George Harvey is a less intelligent killer than he is in the source. In the book he makes a habit of quickly disposing of bodies. He only kills during certain weather patterns to rob the police of evidence. He also only keeps small mementos of his victims and even then slowly disposes of them. His film version made a scrapbook that alone would be more than enough to convict him. What Lindsey steals in the book is only enough to get him questioned at best. He waits to get rid of Susie's body until only after the cops are out to arrest him.
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The Lovely Bones / int_8a07e085	comment	Denser and Wackier: Downplayed. The film inserts a Good-Times Montage, showing Susie doing outrageous things in the In-Between (albeit to show it as shallow escapism). There's also a comic relief montage showing Grandma Lynn causing various household disasters.
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The Lovely Bones / int_8cca5f19	comment	Audience Shift: The book was marketed towards adults, although a lot of teenagers read it anyway. The movie was deliberately made tame enough that invokedthe scriptwriters' kids could watch it, and audience testing showed that teenage girls liked it much, much more than adults. So, after a limited release before Christmas 2009 to be eligible for Oscar consideration, the marketing was changed to promote it to teenagers and it was released in the spring. Roger Ebert noticed the shift and thought this and the whole film was creepy in all the wrong ways.
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The Lovely Bones / int_953a8ee8	comment	Age Cut: The scene with Susie's picture of her as a toddler which then cuts to a picture of her at fourteen is an example of this.
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The Lovely Bones / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Mr. Harvey's outward demeanor is generally friendly, if a bit odd. We realize quickly that it's at best a Paper-Thin Disguise and he's barely keeping it together.
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The Lovely Bones / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: The movie has a particularly effective moment when Susie says to Mr. Harvey that she needs to go home, and then he responds by telling her to "be polite." The look on her face drives it home in that she now knows just how much trouble she's in.
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The Lovely Bones / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Ray and Susie's Almost Kiss is interrupted by Ruth coming into the hall, having a fight with her teacher. Ruth is the one who later allows Susie to be able to kiss Ray properly.
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The Lovely Bones / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: While talking to Mr. Harvey, Jack notices the dead flowers in his garden. He thinks back to a time when he and his wife were having a conversation with Mr. Harvey about said flowers, and remembers the way he was staring at Susie while she was riding her bike…
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The Lovely Bones / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: Several minor examples. In the book the Flanagans lived by the sink hole. In the movie it is implied it was the Connors who lived by it. In the book the Connors live in the development. The man we see who helps Harvey can be seen as a composite or Mr. Connors and Mr. Flanagan. Holly's narration starts out similar to Wendi Richter's in the book who doesn't appear on the dead role call making it appear Movie Holly is a composite of the two. Mr. O'Dwyer is said to have had a daughter who died of leukemia. In the book Mr. O'Dwyer is a neighbor of Susie who sings old Irish ballads. Mr. Botte is the biology teacher at the middle school and it was his daughter that died of leukemia and Susie tells us is not a suspect.
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