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Contrasting starkly with the game’s menacing figure, the 2024 movie adaptation grossly misrepresents Craven, transforming him into a superficial and often cringeworthy character. Gone is the sense of primal danger; in its place, is a figure more akin to an eco-warrior engaging in melodramatic poaching rescues than a deadly predator. The film depicts Craven as someone rebelling against his father and attempting to save animals from poachers—an insipid moral crusade that fundamentally strips him of his complexity.