In the story, Harrison says he wants to choose a volunteer to dance with him, but in this movie he says he is the emperor and wants to find a partner to be his queen, which is a difference.

There are also many similarities between the novel Harrison Bergeron and the film 2081, for example, Harrison was taken away at the age of 14, and both the novel and the film mention this matter and propose that everyone should be equal in all aspects, instead of discrimination and oppression. There's also a very important scene where Harrison takes off the shackles that bind him and dances with his dancers.

The movie better presented the picture of Harrison's father when he recalls his son's capture and the tyranny of the disabled general's rule over the society, and the deafening sound of the disabled machine bag he carries will make his eyes white, forgetting all the feelings and visual effects of memory, and the story just has verbal descriptions that don't do a good job of showing the effect of telling the story and not allowing the reader to experience it.