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the gypsies, adopts their lifestyle and even At the end of the book, Orlando and

considers staying with them forever. But she Shelmerdine get married, have a son, and
doesn’t stay, mostly because she has to hide Orlando becomes the owner of the property
her adoration of nature from them, which is again. She and Shelmerdine live separately,
a big part of Orlando’s character. Thus, she but reunite in the last scene of the story. The
refuses to compromise herself and leaves movie ends with Orlando seeing an angel in

the gypsies. Which is a big step in Orlando’s the sky while Orlando’s daughter is running
search of her own life purpose and herself. across the meadow. Sally Potter described
Nevertheless, the gypsies were not even the scene as “a place between heaven and

mentioned in the movie, which was a big earth, where there is an enthusiastic union
disappointment. The same thing can be said with the present moment.”
about the fact that Istanbul is not included
in the movie, because Istanbul has a great Elif Nalkıran
place in the lives of both Orlando and Vita

Sackville-West.

The biggest difference between the book

and the movie is the ending. The final scene
of the movie takes place in the 1990s, and the
book ends in 1928. In the film, Orlando does
not marry Shelmerdine, she has a daughter
and loses her right to the family property.

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