Cruel Intentions
Despite being part of the same franchise and have the same premiss , Prime Video’sCruel IntentionsTV show is very different from the 1999 movie of the same name . Directed by Roger Kumble and based on the 1782 novelLes Liaisons Dangereuses , by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos , Cruel Intentionsfollows pace - siblings Kathryn Merteuil ( Sarah Michelle Gellar ) and Sebastian Valmont ( Ryan Phillippe ) , who make a bet for their amusement that involves the girl of their school ’s new headmaster , Annette Hargrove ( Reese Witherspoon).Cruel Intentionsspawned a failed prequel and a continuation , and has now returned as a TV show .
TheCruel IntentionsTV show centre of attention on flush step - siblings Caroline Merteuil ( Sarah Catherine Hook ) and Lucien Belmont ( Zac Burgess ) , who also get involved in a bet but for very different reasons than that between Kathryn and Sebastian . Parallel to that are Caroline ’s program to get Annie Grover ( Savannah Lee Smith ) to bring together her sorority , along with Blaise ’s ( John Harlan Kim ) sneaky plans to get money from his fraternity . These are just a couple of differences between theCruel IntentionsTV show and the 1999 film , but there are more .
10Cruel Intentions TV Show Focuses On Fraternities
The Cruel Intentions TV Show Isn’t Just About Its Step-Siblings' Bet
TheCruel IntentionsTV show mostly takes piazza at a Washington D.C. college , where sodality and sororities are a pretty big sight among its loaded students . Caroline is the president of the Delta Phi sorority , while Lucien is the treasurer of Alpha Gammaand Blaise serve as societal professorship . There ’s an anti - Hellenic front on campus led by Beatrice Worth ( Brooke Lena Johnson ) , which , along with a scandal at the last Spring Formal , puts sodality and sororities at risk – but Caroline sees their salvation in Annie Grover .
In the moving-picture show , the focal point is on Kathryn , Sebastian , Annette , and the bet they are all involved in .
Annie Grover is the Vice President ’s girl and a freshman at this college , so Caroline knows that , if Annie join Delta Phi , they will be safe . Almost every one of the main character ’s activities are relate to their fraternities and sorority , which are never mentioned in theCruel Intentionsmovie . In it , the focus is on Kathryn , Sebastian , Annette , and the bet they are all postulate in , as well as the unexpected turns this takes .
9Annie Grover Is The Vice President’s Daughter
The Cruel Intentions TV Show Goes Bigger With Annie
As cite above , in theCruel Intentionsmovie , Annette Hargrove is the girl of the new headmaster , but the video show takes it many steps further . In the TV show , Annie Grover is the Vice President ’s daughter , so all centre are on her . Annie is followed around by bodyguard , making it more or less more difficult for Lucien to get close to her , and , of line , Delta Phi is n’t the only sorority look to get Annie to join them . Caroline is n’t the only one concerned in Annie , as her mother wants to meet the Vice President and wants Caroline to make it encounter .
Annie being the Vice President ’s daughter add up some special “ time value ” and a lot more risk to Caroline and Lucien ’s wager , as one false move can trigger a major dirt . In theCruel Intentionsmovie , Kathryn and Sebastian pick out Annette as the target of their stake not because of her social status , but because Sebastian is blase and wants a challenge , and Annette wrote an article about being against sex without love .
8Caroline & Lucien’s Bet Has A Purpose
It’s Not Just For Fun
In theCruel Intentionsmovie , Kathryn and Sebastian amount up with the bet that kicks off the taradiddle for bare playfulness . As refer above , Sebastian wants a challenge as it ’s very easy for him to make pretty much anyone , and Annette being firmly against sex without love is the eccentric of challenge he ’s take care for – and Kathryn is there to witness all just for her own amusement . The term of the wager are also clear in the movie : if Sebastian has sex with Annette , Kathryn will lastly have sex with him , but if he loses , she gets his darling vintage car .
Prime Video ’s Cruel Intentions boob tube show borrow the premise of the 1999 movie with some change and a young cast , along with an worker from the motion-picture show .
In the goggle box show , Caroline gainsay Lucien to make Annie and have sexual activity with her so they can convert her to unite Delta Phi – after all , Lucien has already slept with most of the sorority ’s potential candidate . If he achieves this , Caroline will log Z’s with him , and later on in the serial , she guide Lucien ’s car from their parents ’ garage to give it back to him as a consolation swag . Caroline ’s bet and plan have a use , and it is n’t just to keep herself entertained at the disbursal of the pain in the neck of others .
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7Caroline Isn’t Sex-Driven Like Kathryn
Caroline Has Other Motivations In The Cruel Intentions TV Show
Both Sebastian and Kathryn enjoy sexual activity in theCruel Intentionsmovie and are n’t frightened or ashamed to admit it . Although the movie certainly focuses more on Sebastian ’s sex life and how he tends to make anyone and then leave them after bewilder what he need , Kathryn explicitly mentions that she revel sex activity . It ’s not surprising , then , that their bet go around around sexual practice : in getting Sebastian to sleep with Annette and in Kathryn promising to have sex with Sebastian if he gain .
In the TV show , Caroline is drive by power , and she does n’t show interest in sex as Kathryn does .
Just like Sebastian , it ’s entail that Kathryn has various sex married person , and she even ends up seduce Cecile ’s ( Selma Blair ) music teacher , Ronald Clifford ( Sean Patrick Thomas ) , who Cecile has diminish for . In the TV show , Caroline is repulse by power , and she does n’t show interestingness in gender as Kathryn does – however , she does advert to Lucien that she enjoy sexual activity after he finds her with Professor Chadwick ( Thomas ) , but this bechance so later thatit ’s unvoiced to consider she could be as sex - driven as Kathryn .
Two ambitious step-siblings at a prestigious Washington, D.C. college will stop at nothing to keep their social standing. After a hazing scandal threatens their control, they resort to extreme tactics, including seducing the vice president’s daughter, to safeguard their reputation and influence.
6Lucien’s Tapes VS Sebastian’s Journal
Lucien Has More Controversial Ways Of Keeping Track Of His Sexual Partners
Both Sebastian and Lucien have multiple sexual urge partners in their respective version ofCruel Intentions , but they keep cart track of them in very different ways . Throughout the moving picture , Sebastian can be check write in his diary , and he does so in detail , even with exposure and drawings . His journal is central to Kathryn ’s downfall at the end ofCruel Intentions , as it ’s thanks to it that everyone in college and Kathryn ’s parents learn how malevolent she is and all the damage she caused to Annette , Cecile , and more .
In theCruel IntentionsTV show , Lucien does n’t keep a daybook – instead , he videotape all his sexual encounters and upload the videos to a file he shares with Caroline , who uses those videos for her own pleasure . The only video he does n’t upload is the one with Annie , as he foretell no one would see it and he fall in love with her . However , the television set show flip Sebastian ’s report and , alternatively of Lucien ’s TV helping him and the rest , they are used by Caroline to hurt him , but he has one final move to destroy Caroline at a recondite , personal level .
5Blaise Has A Bigger Role Than Blaine
Blaise Does A Lot More In The Cruel Intentions TV Show
Blaise is the combining weight to the film ’s Blaine ( Joshua Jackson ) in theCruel IntentionsTV show . Blaine is Sebastian ’s friend and provider of green goddess , who has occasional sex with the school ’s football star , Greg McConnell . Blaine help Sebastian correct Greg up because he ’s a friend of Annette and someone had told her all about Sebastian ’s habit of seducing student . Blaine ’s office in theCruel Intentionsmovie does n’t go beyond that , but Blaise is given a bigger role in the story of the TV show .
Blaise take Scott Russell ( Khobe Clarke ) under his offstage when he join Alpha Gamma and they become lovers . As Scott is very naive and malleable , Blaise pick out vantage and moves everything so Scott becomes President of the brotherhood . What Blaise want is to take the brotherhood ’s money , as he ’s struggling financially and his parent owe money to the college , so he wee-wee Scott sign checks . Lucien , as Alpha Gamma ’s treasurer , finds out Blaise has been embezzling fraternity cash in hand , and Blaise is kicked out – but he takes the fraternity ’s book with him .
4CeCe Is Nothing Like The Movie’s Cecile
CeCe Is A Much Better Character Than Cecile
CeCe is to theCruel IntentionsTV show what Cecile is to the movie . TheCruel Intentionsmovie sees Kathryn take Cecile under her extension , but it ’s not because Kathryn has a good heart – it ’s because Cecile is dating Kathryn ’s ex - boyfriend , Court Reynolds , and she want revenge as he leave her for her promiscuity . Sebastian helps Kathryn corrupt Cecile when he learns that Cecile ’s mother was the one who told Annette to stay away from him .
CeCe , on the other hand , is Caroline ’s good friend and right paw .
When Kathryn realizes the romantic stress between Cecile and her medicine teacher , Ronald Clifford , she and Sebastian use this to further corrupted Cecile but also keep her apart from Ronald , who Kathryn ends up seducing . CeCe , on the other helping hand , is Caroline ’s best champion and right mitt , and she ’s inveterate accent as she ’s always busy , butshe ’s not as tensile and naive as Cecile .
When CeCe becomes Professor Chadwick ’s TA , she start to get distracted from her sorority duties and Caroline sees this as disloyalty . old-hat of it , Caroline score Chadwick to subsequently file a sexual misconduct complaint against him , all so CeCe ca n’t carry on being his TA and fail back to fully serving Delta Phi .
3Caroline Doesn’t Use CeCe For Revenge
Kathryn Wanted Revenge In Cruel Intentions
Another big dispute betweenCruel Intentionsmovie and TV show is the kinship between Caroline and CeCe . In the movie , Kathryn and Cecile fulfil when the latter ’s female parent hail to Kathryn to take Cecile as she ’s new in school , but as explained above , what Kathryn wants is retaliation as Cecile is her ex - boyfriend ’s raw lady friend . Kathryn control Cecile as she pleases as she ’s very naive , and there is n’t on the button a friendship between them .
On the other hand , Caroline and CeCe have already known each other for a while by the time of the events of theCruel Intentions TV show . CeCe rightfully visit Caroline as her ripe friend and does whatever she has to keep Delta Phi going and Caroline satisfied with everything around the sorority . To Caroline , however , CeCe is nothing more than a pawn , and she manipulates her as she pleases . Caroline does n’t use CeCe for any revenge , but she does betray her .
2Sean Patrick Thomas Plays A Different Teacher
Sean Patrick Thomas Is The Only Actor In Both The Movie & The TV Show
The only actor that theCruel Intentionsmovie and TV show have in coarse is Sean Patrick Thomas . In the moving picture , Thomas wager Ronald Clifford , Cecile ’s untried music teacher . Cecile falls for Ronald and the smell is reciprocal , but as Kathryn wants to grease one’s palms and ruin Cecile , she tells Cecile ’s mama about Ronald and he ’s fired . Kathryn later seduces Ronald and tells him Sebastian hurt her and sleep with Cecile , lead to a fight between Ronald and Sebastian that ends with Sebastian being range over .
The Cruel Intentions telecasting show has a new plaster cast in a modernistic take on the 1999 picture ’s story , but it wasted its best connection to the motion picture .
In theCruel IntentionsTV show , Thomas diddle history teacher Hank Chadwick , who takes CeCe in as his TA . CeCe develops smell for Chadwick and it ’s mutual , but Chadwick tells her they must wait until after she graduates to try out something together . Unfortunately , atthe end ofCruel Intentions , Chadwick ’s future at schooling is leave unknown as he ’s under probe for sexual wrongful conduct , but CeCe start to suspect Caroline has been lying to her .
1Lucien Doesn’t Die At The End Of Cruel Intentions TV Show
RIP Sebastian Valmont
The biggest difference between theCruel Intentionsmovie and the boob tube show is the ending . In the film , Sebastian cash in one’s chips when he ’s run over . Annette seek to intervene in Sebastian and Ronald ’s fight and is have into traffic , so Sebastian pushes her to guard but is hit by a taxi . As Annette already had Sebastian ’s daybook , she prints various copies and reach them to everyone in college with Cecile ’s help during Sebastian ’s funeral . This leads to Kathryn ’s precipitation , as everyone learns how malign she really is along with some of her darkest arcanum .
In the goggle box show , Lucien does n’t die , but he does get to hurt Caroline back after she releases his sex tape measure . Knowing how bad Caroline ’s human relationship with her mother is and that the latter does n’t really love Caroline , Lucien has sexual activity with his stepmother and divvy up the video with Caroline . TheCruel IntentionsTV show end with Lucien driving forth in his vintage auto as he ignores Caroline and Annie ’s calls .
Two ambitious stride - sib at a prestigious Washington , D.C. college will turn back at nothing to keep their social standing . After a hazing outrage threaten their control , they resort to extreme tactic , including seducing the vice United States President ’s daughter , to safeguard their reputation and influence .
