>>>bc i thought the book was excellent but im a little
>concerned
>>>with how they would fit some of the sequences of the story
>>>into the movie
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>such as the story of the black butterfly,

They touch upon that but I didn't understand it. It might've been explained in the opening though.

the story of the
>mountain, and most of the mystique stuff.

The Mountain of the Sleeping Man's legend is mentioned quite a few times & you can see the face in the mountain which was pretty cool.
There's an interesting shot towards the end where it finally comes into play but my guess is that it was probably handled a lot better in the book.

the sequencing in
>the book of these are usually after something major happens.
>looking at the previews and reading the book it looks like the
>preview shows things in order as they happened but isnt giving
>you the real deal of the story. people are going to go in
>thinking that its only about black soldiers (like you pointed
>out) and its not only about them.

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>i just went back to your review and saw that you said that its
>all over the place and hard to follow at times. now that i
>read that im almost certain that it is going to stay true to
>the book which a cool deal to me. im going to catch it on
>saturday and give my thoughts.

Yeah the whole story with the boy isn't revealed till the later 1/2 of the film & a lot of stuff is cleared up at that point. But there's still a lot of other underdeveloped characters who pop up every now & then & it wasn't really clear what their motives were & how they fit into the story.