Adaptation
The novel was adapted for the screenplay of a 1983 film of the same name, starring David Keith as Will McLean and Robert Prosky as Colonel "Bear" Berrineau. The film version took place entirely in McLean's senior year, when he was asked to protect Pearce. Several plot points were changed for the film:
--In the novelization, Poteete hangs himself after one encounter with the Ten. In the film, he attempts to leap from one rooftop to another, but he misses and falls to his death.
--After his Walk of Shame, Pignetti commits suicide by walking into the path of a speeding train, but in the film, he simply gets into a taxicab called for him and is never seen again. The film says that as part of deal with Durrell, Pignetti was to be reinstated at the Institute's next year to earn his incomplete credits.
--The entire plotline concerning McLean and Annie Kate Gervais, the mother of his roommate Tradd St Croix's illegitimate--and ultimately stillborn--child, was cut out of the film.
--In the film, Pearce apologizes for turning his back on McLean, explaining that he did it because of survival, and if he didn't make it, "the next nigger has my record around his neck like a rock." In the novelization, McLean has no further contact with Pearce after that.
--Tradd's motivation for joining the Ten is never completely explained in the film, and the entire "Honey Prince" subplot of Tradd's effeminate nature is disposed of, apart from a brief aside by Tradd's father Commerce in the opening, where he commends Will for looking soldierly and masculine, whereas Tradd cannot seem to look masculine "even if he was in a suit of armor". Instead, his motivation is that he did it to make his father proud of him.
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