Jack found "War and Peace" the 3.5-hour movie on Amazon, and one weekend evening we watched it on our bedroom TV. Jack was half way through the book and he said the reason why the book was so long was Tolstoy described every little thing in gory details, like how a general gets on a horse. I'm still hovering around the 12% mark of the book, and it'll probably take me 5 years to finish if ever.
How one could pack a 1300-page book into a 3.5 hour movie, I don't know. The screenwriter and director must have done a great job, because all along the movie, Jack said it was very close to the book.
When Pierre went to the battle field with the army he funded and witness the battle. We saw that the French infantry was charging toward the Russians, and I saw something strange. Why were the French Army carrying red, white and green flags?
I was pondering that I was pretty sure the French flag was red, white and blue, and Jack said: "Why are the French Army carrying the Italian flags?"
I said: "Yes, I was just wondering about that."
Jack said: "Oh, it's the TV light bulb messing up the color. It turns blue to green!" Since the new blub was installed, we tried spending hours adjusting the color of the TV in vain.
I was inspired to read the book after watching the movie and read a couple of pages the next day.
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