In the film, Ryder wants Garber to deliver the money, but in the novel he wants cops to drop it off in ten minutes or he kills a hostage. There is no road accident that makes them miss the deadline or lying to Ryder that they've got the money.
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In the novel, some of the cops think about pocketing some of the money for themselves.
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Lasalle's first name in the novel is Murray and we see him trying to get the money.
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In the novel, a sniper kills a hijacker on purpose, but in the remake it happens by accident.
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Ryder is calmer in the novel and the original film but angrier in the remake.
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The motorman dies differently in the novel; he gets gunned down when a sniper kills one of the hijackers, and not by Ryder. It also angers the public and the cops trying to control them.
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Ryder's men hijack the train at 2:00pm, but in the novel it's at 1:23pm, like the number of the train.
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In the novel, the ransom demand is $1,000,000 and so it was in the original film, but the remake has upgraded it to $10,000,000; Ryder says a million dollar ransom is a corny asking price.
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In the novel it takes longer to get to the hijacking than it does in the film.
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Ryder in the book is a methodical criminal mastermind, like
Robert Shaw in the original film, but not like
John Travolta who has a hair trigger temper.
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Ryder's men wear disguises in the novel and in the original film but not the remake.
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The hijackers use tommy-guns in the novel but not the remake, perhaps because they're only effective at close range.
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In the novel, the hostages tell Ryder why they need to be released and he says why they can't, but not the remake. An off-duty cop is on the train too but not the remake, where he takes matters into his own hands at the climax. He shoots Ryder in the tunnel, but Ryder dies by electrocution in the original film, but is killed by Garber outside in the remake.
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In the novel, Ryder gets the idea for the hijacking after reading in the paper about two men who stuck up a change booth at a subway station in the Bronx.
The novel .... OUAIS ben y en a marre !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Body count: 7 (3 hostages and 4 bad guys).
