Book vs. Movie 2

Now that I am more towards the end of the book it is a lot easier to compare the differences between the two. Now for starters we have the events that are the same one of which is Joe Leland tying a fire hose around his waist so that he can jump off the exploding roof and into the building, in the movie it is the same deal except this time he has to shoot his way into the window. The characters are different then at the beginning because now in the book Joe has gone from being alone by himself to having this cop talk to him over a radio from the parking g lot, in the movie they have the whole police squad show up and they are telling him not to be a vigilante. In the book Joe is a World War 2 veteran and a retired cop and in the movie John is just a cop and he is also younger and more agile then Joe. Another difference is that in the book the villains are just terrorist taking over the building and killing people and in the movie they tone it down to just make them robbers even though they still take a lot of people hostage.

Then the characters also change because in the book the terrorist are made up of men and women were as in the movie all of the robbers are men. Overall right now I think that the movie is better then the book and that is because John Mclane is a lot more action hero like and fun were as in the book Joe Leland makes you realize just how serious the events in the book are and that he kind of old so it doesn't make sense that he would survive any of this. Also I think it is better when you can see a lot of the things that happen compared to visualization, like the helicopter crashing into the building is a lot more suspenseful in the movie then it was in the book. The reason is because you see the spectacular explosion  that John Mclane has to jump off the roof to dodge and then smash through a window. I also think it helps I saw the movie before I read the book because I might have a different opinion if I did it the other way around because I only found out recently that it was a book first.