Dussander then kidnaps and holds the man captive in his basement, later coercing Todd to murder him. Unfortunately, a homeless person sees him through his window. He Knows Too Much: Dussander starts putting on his SS uniform even when Todd is not around to blackmail him. Driven to Suicide: Dussander commits suicide by air embolism rather than let himself be extradited to Israel to answer for his war crimes.He held the SS rank of Sturmbahnführer (major) but the insignia designate him to be an Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant-colonel). Dussander points out that the replica uniform Todd got him is incorrect. Artistic License – Military: Discussed.In the film Todd comes across as more disturbed and immature than Ax-Crazy and sadistic, doesn't have anything as explicit as a rape fantasy during his dreams about the camps (imagining himself as an inmate instead), he and Dussander only kill one homeless person who found out that Dussander was a former Nazi (and only after Dussander locked them together in the basement and the hobo shambled towards him looking like a zombie), and Todd simply blackmails his guidance counselor and goes to college after Dussander dies. In the book he is a budding sociopath who fantasizes about raping a captive woman in a concentration camp and, together with Dussander, becomes a Serial Killer of hobos before he murders his guidance counselor and finally goes on a killing spree that ends in his death. Adaptational Nice Guy: Although he is still a Jerkass obsessed with Nazi crimes in both versions, Todd is a lot less nasty in the film version than he is in the novella.In the film, Todd just blackmails the guidance counselor by threatening to accuse him of molestation to keep his connections to Kurt Dussander secret and goes off to college. Adaptational Alternate Ending: The original ending dealt with Todd murdering his guidance counselor and going on a 5-hour shooting spree in a populated area before getting shot to death by the police. Todd, who has a perverse interest in Nazi war crimes, blackmails Dussander into telling him stories of his time as the commandant of a concentration camp, leading to a series of mind games between the two as exactly which one is in control of the situation gradually becomes unclear. The story revolves around Todd, an American high school student, discovering that his elderly next-door neighbor is in fact Kurt Dussander, a Nazi SS officer wanted for war crimes. It was directed by Bryan Singer and starred Brad Renfro as Todd and Ian McKellen as Dussander. Apt Pupil is a 1998 film adapted from a story in Stephen King's novella collection Different Seasons.
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