Why were Olive and Emma's powers changed in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children?
In the book, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children we had Emma who could burn things, and Olive who could fly.
In the movie this was completely changed around - Emma was the flyer, while Olive burned things.
Was there ever a reason given for this change?
Best Answer
Because Burton thought it worked better that way.
He explained to BuzzFeed:
We switched Emma and Olive's afflictions, or whatever you want to call them. But luckily we had Jane, the screenwriter, [and] we ran some [stuff by Ransom Riggs]... you know, the author is still alive! He was a good collaborator. We just sort of felt that having Emma floating would be a bit more poetic and it was in the spirit of the book. So it just felt for the movie it was a better way to go with it. Because often times in novels, characters get omitted, deleted, condensed and I think Ransom felt confident that whatever changes we made were still in the spirit of the book and so it all worked out very well that way. There was no big fights or tensions or controversies in terms of how that came to be.
With the Authors blessings.
The actress for Emma thought the same, as it allowed the film to stand apart from the book while still being true to the spirit of it:
when I sat down and thought about it, I was actually really glad that they gave me the opportunity to create a whole new character because if you try to exactly replicate a book as well-loved as this book, you will never please everyone. So you might as well make an adaptation of the book."
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Olive can levitate. Unlike the other children in Miss Peregrine's home, Olive's peculiarity was with her the from moment she was born.What is olive peculiarity?
Pyrokinesis: Olive's peculiarity is the ability to produce and manipulate fire through her hands.‘OLIVE’ by Emma Gannon. a book about not wanting to have children. a reading vlog.
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