Kristen Stewart was cast as Marylou at 17, before she played fair-skinned and often sullen Bella Swan in The Twilight series. Warning: Major spoilers ahead.įrom Kerouac’s initial description, Marylou-Dean Moriarty’s 16-year-old bride-is pigeonholed as your archetypal dumb blonde: ditzy, spontaneous, with a full head of bright blonde ringlets. So how did it measure? The following is a list of differences between Kerouac’s sensational novel and Salle’s star-studded rendition. But these delayed attempts are understandable: how could anyone successfully turn Kerouac’s stream-of-consciousness novel into a film with a beginning, middle, and end?īut the challenge still exists, with The Motorcycle Diaries director Walter Salles taking a whack at it in 2012. The classic novel has seen several almost-made big-screen adaptations, with everyone from Marlon Brando to Brad Pitt wanting to tie their name to the classic, with no success until now. Kerouac’s tale of Beatnik friends in search of kicks claims to be semi-autobiographical, with the protagonist’s fascination, Dean Moriarty, based off Kerouac’s real life friend Neal Cassady. The acclaimed novel, originally written on a continuous roll of paper in a three-week period, has become a textbook for its followers, a magnum opus of nonsensical diction and ideals of American freedom on the open road.
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