post #5 Book to a movie.

To make the book Extremely loud and incredibly close into a movie I think they might have a  difficult time trying to take the writing and trying to figure out who is saying what because in the  book that I what I think is the hardest part to see who is taking when. Also I think it would be hard to portray how the mom and son get through their grief.  I also think they would have to change the mom character because she leaves her young son when she always go off to work also I feel like she kind of in a way neglects Oskar. They would have to change how she deals with things I think to better fit her in the movie.

Some scenes I feel like they need to keep is when Oskar stays home from school “sick” and when he’s searching around their apartment and comes across a key. He has no idea whose it is and where it’s to. The only thing he knows is that on the envelope it has the word black written on it and then his journey to find the lock begins. Another scene that is a essential to keep is the dads funeral because Oskar and his dad were very close every night he would read him a stories and after the death of his dad its like Oskar never fully recovered from it so I think to show more of the funeral then it did in the book would be import to show and see how Oskar takes it all with just his mother with him now and how his mother goes through it. And finally a scene that would have to be in the film is when Oskar tells about how the day his dad died he goes home and hears all the messages and how he missed his dads call by minutes and that how that would be the last time he would get to hear his dad voice, but he didn’t know. Also how he reacted after getting home and seeing that things were wonderful like he thought. As much as I have read into the book I feel like those are the most important parts to keep for the film.

Some things I think that would need to be changed for the movie to be better would be by taking out a character and shortening some of the things that are very descriptive in the book. For the character I think you need to take out would be the grandma. I think she could  get taken out and the story would still make sense even though Oskar does care for her I think it would just take up more time in the movie and it may even confuse some people. The things that are descriptive and could be shortened for the film is when Oskar goes out the first time looking for the box to the key that he found, I personally think that it went into to much description of him at central park looking around for it. So to better make the movie I feel as if you should remove those two things.