Some of my favorite stuff-or, rather, some of the most gripping drama in the novel-was simply cut. Probably my biggest gripe with the movie was how much of the latter half of the book's obstacles were simply cut altogether. There's not only more conflict and more crazy things going wrong, there are more detailed and fleshed out solutions. But you're going to get a lot more humor in the book.Īlong similar lines, Watney's challenges in the book are much greater than in the film. To its credit, even the humor changed and added to the film worked and felt true to the novel. And inside Watney's head is a pretty hilarious place to be. Mostly, though, it's because we spend so much time in Watney's head. Partly this is just because it's a longer experience, with more room for the jokes. The book, on the other hand, has lots more laughs. The film does a great job making Watney a real character with a wide range of emotions-maybe even better than the novel. It's what keeps the tension and worry from overtaking us as viewers.īut the book is even funnier. But if you read it first, you'll simply know a lot more about what's going on than if you just watch Scott's adaptation. You get the "lite" version in the film, which is really for the best since we don't have eight hours to watch the movie. It's science made entertaining, and it's a lot of fun. It's great for the film, but the book simply delves so much deeper into the science.Īnd not just with Watney, but back at NASA and throughout the book.
In the film, Watney is just a botanist, and we see a lot more of his botany than we do his engineering.
These two things both help him enormously over the course of the story. Watney is a botanist and a mechanical engineer. In the book, each of the Ares 3 astronauts has two jobs because they're not only really brave, they're highly educated. The main character in The Martian is Mark Watney.
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