Ragtime Movie/Book Comparison

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In 1981 when director Milos Forman took up the challenge of making the 1975 novel Ragtime written by E.L. Doctorow a movie, he had to make many changes. Some of these included rewriting whole characters so they were able to fit into the genre of a movie. Some of these include how Tateh in the movie is never a socialist, or how Harry Houdini is only shown once in brief. These absences and changes affect the …

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