The School for Good and Evil doesn't make any sense

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I love how you compare Sophie to the girls on tiktok who "want to get kidnapped" when the first line of the book is LITERALLY: "Sophie had waited all her life to be kidnapped."

One of my favorite parts from the book was that the good school was served by fairies and the evil school by werewolves and we come to find out that they are the students who failed. If you don't do good enough you are enslaved by the school for eternity.

One of the first red flags Sofie had was her relationship with Agatha. In the movies, they seemed like genuine best friends, but in the books, it is clear that Sofie only befriended Agatha, just so she could get chosen for the school of good

Im really upset that they cut the scene where Sophie killed the wolf for cutting her hair. It really shows Sophie’s evilness and how much she cares about appearances

The first red flag for me was Agatha being stereotypically gorgeous. In the book it adds another level of complexity because even though Agatha gets a makeover sequence it’s very different. She has a phobia of mirrors and genuinely disgusts herself. If this was included in the movie I feel like it could’ve been a good subversion of a trope.

The whole “Agatha is supposed to be ugly” thing doesn’t work when they cast a pretty actress. It just kind of makes the rest of the school look racist

Screenplay: She says to the handsome boy "Do they usually batt their eyes and smile at you?" He responds "Yes! ....Yes, they usually do, and it's boring." She then proceeds to batt her eyes and smile at the handsome boy.

Alex-"they are like sisters." The scene- they kiss Me-"SISTERS DONT KISS!!!!"

Honestly, it would have been so much better as a TV series. The books are really fun, but the movie left out huge chunks that I wish had made it in, and the story felt rushed without them

What really gets me confused is that everyone says Sophie's egotistical behaviour and narcissism is the reason why she was put in the evil school but no one considers how the princesses behave and how they are similar to Sophie in what they like and dislike. Edit: Thanks for all the the likes and especially the comments trying to explain further as I haven't read the book, it shows how rushed the film was and how it should be a series.

They left out EVERYTHING, that made the book interesting & amazing. Lady Lesso was born evil, & is from that world. The only people she loved was her son & dovey. Otherwise she was an aroace icon. She didn’t think of Rafael at all. That storyline felt like a violation to her character. Not to mention they kept out the circus of talents, which is personally my favourite part of the book. It’s so beautiful, and it explains/shows that not everything is as what it appears. (SPOILERS FOR THE BOOK) Agatha for her talent shows that students who fail the school, get turned into a slaves for the other school & tries to convince the WHOLE school, that they’re not that different after all. Not to mention at the end of the book, Sofia & Agatha kiss & immediately get transported back to galvadon, not get permission from fucking tedros. It’s a key event to the next book.

I actually love the books. They couldve been a series. They left out major details and changed things

They never showed on the movie what made her truly evil, in the books she has been aiming for the school of good her whole life and there was that sense of betrayal when Agatha found out that she was Sophie’s ‘good deed’

My hugest gripe is that we didn't get the whole "Sophie is definitely evil" we got in the books. She was insane, she was the DEFINITION of gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss, (manipulate, manwh*re and manslaughter in book two). She was EVIL, yes she did try to fight against it, but she was at her core an evil person. This Sophie? the other one would have her dead to rights in five seconds flat, especially with her outfit change to embrace being evil after her hair EDIT: SHE ALSO DID CANNONICALLY MURDER SOMEONE WHO WAS HEAVILY IMPLIED TO BE AN 'EVER' IN THE FIRST BOOK THIS SOPHIE IS W E A K

Man, Netflix really needs to try when making movies. The set designing crew get millions of dollars for their budget and the writing crew gets a nickel, a paper clip, and a ball of lint.

Who didnt see "the true love is actually the other girl" as soon as the "true loves kiss" plot was first introduced.

One of the things I hated the most about this film, was that in the books Sophie and Agatha DIDN'T like each other. They were never 'best friends'. The whole point was that Sophie was using Agatha to make herself look better by being nice to her, which Agatha knew all along. They never liked each other, the beauty of their friendship was that it DEVELOPED throughout the books which the film completely cut and made it focus on their 'unconditional friendship' which was in the beginning very conditional. Anyways rant over

It sounds like they left out a lot of the book material that would explain why Sophie is sent to the School for Evil. In the original novel, she's really rather selfish behind her sugary sweet facade. She doesn't have an evil stepmother. Her widowed father is dating again and she bitterly resents his taking any attention off her to be with another woman. This other woman is actually a decent person, warm and loving, but Sophie doesn't care about that. She doesn't want anything to get in the way of her life with Daddy, thank you very much. She sleeps for nine hours and has an exhaustive beauty regime that takes several hours a day. You see, two children get kidnapped every year, taken away to this mysterious school, where they will be chosen to fulfill their parts in fairy tales. Will they be good or evil? They won't know until after they're "chosen". Parents fear the loss of their children but Sophie is actually looking forward to being taken. She thinks she's princess material. How can she not be? She's pretty, sweet and adorable. However, she cherishes the malicious delight in showing her father just how great she'll be once she becomes a princess. She'll have fabulous dresses, lovely shoes and a prince for a husband. That'll teach him. Her father isn't mean to her at all. But Sophie thinks he actually wanted a son. That's nowhere indicated in the book; it's just another of her delusions, I suppose. She gives her father disgusting vegan food to eat and turns her up nose at his wistful desire for muffins. She doesn't do this just to keep him healthy. She thinks this shows what a stellar personality she has, looking out for daddy's health and not giving him food that might make him fat. What a good person she is! She offers muffins to Agatha who initially refuses because she knows how dreadful Sophie's baking is. Sophie lies to her and tells her that she's offering delicious treats. Imagine Agatha's misery when she realizes Sophie has deceived her and it's just more health muffin garbage (probably bran). It's these selfish motivations behind her seemingly good actions that condemn Sophie. Agatha, on the other hand, is actually a decent human being. She proves to have the smarts, loyalty, decency, compassion and kindness you glimpse in her from her first appearance. Sophie demonstrates time and again that she is deceitful, lying, treacherous, conceited, vengeful, manipulative and a poor friend. Agatha embodies Good while Sophie finds, to her horror, that it is she who seems to be Evil. If all this nuance is left out of the movie, no wonder it makes no sense.

I think it would have actually benefited from being a series. It would have allowed to flesh out the characters, the rivalry between the schools, how the universe works...