It’s an awful book...read it in high school, thought it was communist propaganda then...still do so today. The movie is a cartoon of the book...ALL the poor people are lionized...everybody else is shown as part of the problem.
That Hollywood is going back to this...speaks volumes about why their movies have so little interest for the great majority.
They just don’t get it.
I don’t get it either.
They ‘get it’ alright.
They are ONLY interested in $$$$
Facts, taste, originality and everything else have gone by the way.