The Captain in the book was a very different, quiet, married man called Captain Alberic, and the lightning ship sequence was just a couple of pages. When they adapted the film, they decided to use the flying ship sequence to move the characters and plot along in different ways, and so they renamed the Captain to acknowledge he wasn't the same.
I loved the adaptation, though. Gaiman was actually a producer on the film, the director and screenwriter are friends of his, and he was in on the process the whole time, making suggestions and checking things over. He and Charles Vess both loved how the film turned out...so I've got no problem loving the book and film in different ways. *g*
(Especially the ending. I'm enough of a sap, part of me does love the film ending possibly more than the beautiful-bittersweet of the books. Though that actually has less to do with the flying-to-the-sky bit and more to do with the fact that they got to have a family in the film....)
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Date: 2007-09-02 04:18 am (UTC)I loved the adaptation, though. Gaiman was actually a producer on the film, the director and screenwriter are friends of his, and he was in on the process the whole time, making suggestions and checking things over. He and Charles Vess both loved how the film turned out...so I've got no problem loving the book and film in different ways. *g*
(Especially the ending. I'm enough of a sap, part of me does love the film ending possibly more than the beautiful-bittersweet of the books. Though that actually has less to do with the flying-to-the-sky bit and more to do with the fact that they got to have a family in the film....)