Everything I Missed From The Call Me By Your Name Book While Watching The Movie

When each installment of the Harry Potter series arrived to theaters, it seemed a contingent of militant fans would sit in the last row, taking copious notes on discrepancies between the books and the movies. Each detail left out of the film stung like a miniature arrow; by the movie’s end, fans would leave the theater bleeding for their favorite detail neglected by Hollywood. I know, because I was one of those fans.

My days of fact-checking are over, and I won’t be approaching the differences between the book and movie versions of Call Me By Your Name with such bitterness. Rather, this article is just to sate simple curiosity. What differences are there between the gorgeous, two hour-long movie version of Call Me By Your Name, and the gorgeous, 256-page novel version of Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman? Quite a few, actually. Here’s a spoiler: Novel Elio is far, far more neurotic than movie Elio. Just know that inside Timothee Chalamet's glassy expression is a mind that's constantly reeling with an obsessive love for Armie Hammer's character, Oliver.

So, if you’re not going to read the book — which you should! — these are the big differences between the two works you should know.

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