Books can get by with a lot of touchy material since they take place in the theater of the mind. When those words are adapted into a movie, not everything makes it onto the silver screen. Whether they are too hot of a topic, haven't aged well, or simply didn't fit the story the movie was trying to tell, these are the book scenes that got cut.
5.Paper Towns — A scene where Quentin and Margo break into SeaWorld was cut, as Blackfish was released after the book was written, but before the adaptation.
6.Forrest Gump — In the book, Forrest smokes weed, goes to space with an orangutan, and crash lands in Papua New Guinea where he learns to play chess.
7.Fifty Shades of Grey — There's a certain scene featuring a tampon in the book that was not in the movie.
8.The Godfather — In the book, the character of Lucy Mancini gets much more attention, though it's not the worst thing in the world that her role got less focus. That's because entire pages of Mario Puzo's novel are dedicated to describing her vagina.
9.The Hunger Games — In the movie, Peeta simply injures his leg. But in the book, he loses it altogether.
10.The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader — The scene where Aslan turns Eustace from a dragon back into a human is a bit more brutal in the book.
11.Gone With the Wind — Screenwriter Sidney Howard had his work cut out for him when he adapted the source material, which has many problematic and flat-out racist scenes.
12.Fast Times at Ridgemont High — Jeff Spicoli wasn't the loveable surfer-dude in the book (which was based on a true story). Instead, he was mocked by everyone else and was actually kind of an asshole.
13.My Sister's Keeper — Movie version: Kate (Sofia Cassilieva) dies in her sleep and Anna (Abigail Breslin) lives, keeping her kidney. Book version: Anna dies in a car crash and her kidney goes to Kate, who survives.
14.Pinocchio — In Carlo Collodi's original story, Pinocchio murders the Talking Cricket.
15.Divergent — A scene from the book where a Dauntless is stabbed in the eye was filmed, but ultimately cut
16.Stardust — In Neil Gaiman's novel, here's how the death of the unicorn goes: it stabs the Witch-Queen with its horn, then she stabs it back in its eye and brain, cuts off its head, spits into its mouth, and turns the body into a zombie. In the movie, it just gets zapped.
17.The Rescuers — In the book that the film is based on, the villain had already kidnapped several children by the time she is stopped. The others were hunted and killed by her dogs, two bloodhounds named Tyrant and Torment.
18.Jurassic Park — The opening scene of the book involves small, lizard-like dinosaurs eating a baby. While it wasn't included in the 1993 film, a version of the scene involving a young girl was in Lost World.
19.IT — The infamous scene in which Beverly Marsh has sex with her six male friends (all 11 years old) in the sewers didn't make the final cut
20.ROOM — Author and screenwriter, Emma Donoghue, included a scene in both the book and the script where Ma tells Jack that she had a stillbirth before having him. Donoghue decided to cut it from the final draft.
21.The Road — A scene from the book involving a baby roasting over a fire was filmed, but not included in the final cut. Author Cormac McCarthy completely understood.
22.American Psycho — Some of the torture scenes were too graphic to put into the movie.
23.A Clockwork Orange — At one point in the movie, Alex DeLarge has consensual sex with two young women. In the book, he molests two 10-year-olds.
What book scenes did you notice were cut on the silver screen? Let me know in the comments!
