Women And Sonny's Relationship

The changed relationship between the men and women in the movie is really interesting especially since this is such a faithful adaptation. So little is changed, it is almost as if it was written to be made into a movie. Changing the relationships between Sonny and his wife and Michael and Kay really serve no obvious purpose for the movie adaptation. It’s not any shorter or to the point. So then why was it changed? Was the director inserting his views about men, women, and penis size into the story? Were the women sidelined into the plot and treated badly (more than they already were in the book) to show how much power men hold over women and thus to gratify the male audience? Laura Mulvey’s theory comes in handy again when she says, “The