Minority Report
Steven Spielberg ’s 2002 filmMinority Reportis ground on a short story of the same name by famed skill fable author Philip K. Dick , but the movie has some major differences from the ledger - include John Anderton ’s fate . Played byTom Cruisein the motion-picture show , John is key out ( in his own watchword ) as " bald and fat and old " in the gap lines of Dick ’s short taradiddle . John was efficaciously split into two unlike characters for Spielberg ’s movie : the variant of John played by Cruise , and Max von Sydow ’s maturate Precrime founder , Lamar Burgess .
Minority Reportalso starsColin Farrellas Danny Witwer , a young federal factor who has been assign to enquire Precrime and seem for flaws forwards of the computer program going national . In the Bible this character is called Ed Witwer , and has been sent by the Senate to take over John ’s job - though officially he ’s just there to act as John ’s helper until his retirement . In both versions of the story there ’s prompt animosity between John and Witwer , and when the precogs predict that John will murder a humanity whom he has never fulfil , he immediately suspects Witwer of framing him .
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John ’s backstory of having a son who was kidnapped six years previously is n’t in the Quran , and neither is John ’s neuroin addiction . These elements were created for Spielberg’sadaptation ofMinority Report , in parliamentary procedure to excuse John ’s devotion to Precrime and how he could be incite to murder Leo Crow . They are n’t the only changes that were made , however . Here are the giving remainder between Philip K. Dick’sThe Minority Reportand the movie adaptation .
The Precogs Are Deformed and Severely Brain Damaged
In the movie version ofMinority Report , the precogs look relatively normal away from being kept in a pond and wired up to electronic computer . Agatha ( Samantha Morton)is able to converse with John after her drug wear off , and when the precogs are relinquish at the end of the movie we see them populate a life sentence of peaceful seclusion and meter reading books . By direct contrast , in the original story the precogs are described as " gibbering , fumbling creatures " with " enlarged head and waste bodies . " As John explains , " their talent take in everything , " leaving their mental capacity unable to function in any electrical capacity beyond construe the futurity . Unlike in the movie , the precogs in Dick’sMinority Reportare always receiving information about the future , including not only murders but petty crimes like assault , taxation evasion and theft , as well as a orotund amount of useless data .
John Anderton Decides to Kill His Victim
In the book version ofMinority Report , John Anderton ’s victim is name Leopold Kaplan , not Leo Crow , and he ’s not just a random desperate criminal . Kaplan is a retire general who is actually responsible for plotting his own murder by Anderton , as part of a cabal to dismantle Precrime and reestablish the United States Army ’s exponent . Whereas in the movie John does n’t have a minority reputation , in the original story he hasthree . In the first prediction , Kaplan tells John about the conspiracy and John kills Kaplan . In the second , John learns that he is predicted to kill Kaplan and chooses not to . This is the outcome that Kaplan want , because it would prove that Precrime is fallible and may have locked up innocent mass .
Kaplan believes that there is a bulk report card , because two of the precogs predict that John will kill him . What he does n’t realize , however , is that these two report actually disagree with one another . The third and final minority report is that John will discover about the second nonage report ( in which he does not wipe out Kaplan ) and alter his mind again , choosing to pour down Kaplan in fiat to save Precrime . This is in the end what come about .
Witwer Survives and Takes Over John’s Job
Farrell ’s version of Witwer is shoot and killed by Lamar Burgess after figuring out how Anne Lively was polish off . That plot line is not a part of the original book , and Witwer does n’t die inPhilip K. Dick ’s story . Instead he gets his want and learn over John ’s job , after John is broadcast into expatriate on a colony planet as punishment for bump off Kaplan . Witwer ’s new job come with a concerning caveat , though ; he inherits a organization that he know to be blemished and vulnerable to manipulation , and John ’s part words are to warn Witwer that he could easily be plant up in just the same elbow room that John was . Yes , the original ending ofMinority Reportwas a lot more minatory than what ended up in the movie .
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