Originally posted by Cristina's Way:
I realize (from reading past posts) that in the book, Mama is much more aware. But my focus was just on the Mama we see in the movie. I wonder if in the book, before an hysterical Connie confronts Michael about Carlo's death, Mama argued with her and tried to tell her "you're wrong."
You can't simply divorce the book character from the film version of that person.
In a book there are no time constraints, and the author has much more leeway in their ability to tell us what the characters are thinking and feeling.
Absent any direct evidence to the contrary, I believe that it is the intention of the authors of the screenplay that their film characters think and feel the same way as their counterparts in the book on which the film is based, even if they do not directly portray them that way..
And Mama, BTW, does not appear at all in the scene in the book that you mention.
