Don't Cry There's a Movie Many books in conversion from paper to film get changed or even lose important details. Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Patron is one such book that has gone through this process. The differences ranged from characterization and setting to the plot and the overall meaning of the book. One of the main characters, Jarvis, was significantly different. He was a much more bitter and discriminating man in the movie as opposed to the book. In the beginning of the movie there was a scene where Jarvis gave a very dirty look to a little native girl running by which would have probably have been hard to express in the book. Still,