Book vs Movie or rather Series vs Movie

For this I decided to look at the similarities and differences between Avatar: The Last Air Bender the animated series, and Avatar: The Last Air Bender the live action film.  Although I am not looking at a book and comparing it to the movie that came about because of the book, the live action film for the subject I chose to do this on did come about because of the popularity and craze that came about because of the animated series.

First allow us to explore the similarities between the animated series and the live action film.  The characters names were all kept the same, although within the live action film the pronunciations of the names were horribly wrong, and the title was kept the same as well.  The live action film follows the first "book," or season, from the animated series.  Within this book we meet most of the characters, with the exception of just a few, four to be exact, and the development of the dire perils that their world is facing, taking the gang of heroes on little side story lines to further develop the characters.  Unfortunately the film only incorporates the names, title, and one side story line and uses it as the main point throughout the whole movie.

What is unique to the movie is that they did do a pretty good job with the casting, it is very hard to find a cast that can look like animated characters, and it does do quite a good job introducing the characters and developing them as they did during the series, which is three books long each book containing four discs and four episodes per disc.  Now, I do understand that this was a movie geared more towards a younger crowd, and in order to keep the attention focused of said younger crowd on the movie and not allowing it to wander aimlessly, and that the movie had to cover so much information in a short amount of time, cuts are needed, but the movie does a great job at killing the name pronunciation, the main character's name is Aang, pronounced Ang (as in the word and), the movie decided to pronounce it Ong (as in gong).  All characters names were horribly pronounced, which is hard to do seeing as how the animated series came first, take the pronunciations from the series.  Secondly the movie follows a very very minor story line from the series, that really has nothing to do with the plot line at all, which was very disappointing.  I do understand that there had to be cuts to the massive amount of information covered in the series, but the least they could do was to follow the main story line and shorten that up.  I can however see why they chose the minor story line they did to follow.  It was short and gave background on the main character, and in the end they did come to the main story line to finish.

Above is a screenshot of my glog.  Unfortunately it would save and publish.