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Artist: Foxing Song: Rory [Embed For Use By Upgraded+] "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" Prompt: You've been given a full budget and creative license to bring a book you read to film. What book would you pick and who would you cast as the characters? If you choose a book with an existing movie adaptation, what changes would you make? This is an interesting prompt, but I bit difficult to answer because I’m adamantly against spoiling books or movies. I mean, even to the extent that I hate when people say something like, “Oh, you should read X book, you’ll never see the twist coming!” Because then I spend my entire time reading the book waiting for a twist to happen. It really takes the fun out of it. I’ve had this happen several times where someone is describing a book to me and I’m like, oh, this sounds awesome! And then the person tells me, “I was so sad when such and such character died.” I’m like nooo, I was going to read that! My first thought when I read the prompt was The Catcher in the Rye. I read it as a teenager and it was my favorite book. Part of me likes that it hasn't been adapted into a movie because I do think it's okay to just have something in written form, and so often the movie doesn't do the book justice. Of course, as per Salinger's wishes there won't be a movie adaptation, and I'm cool with that. But it's still interesting to think about potential actors for it. As for which actor would make a good Holden Caulfield, I think Miles Teller would have been perfect for the role several years ago. At 33, he's a bit old to be playing a 17 year old at this point, but I think he'd be great in the role of Holden. I'm always disappointed when I watch a movie and then later realize that it was a book first. It's difficult for me to make that transition back to enjoying it as a book after I've seen it on film, even if I'm told that the book is much better than the movie! I have lots of books that I bought after seeing the movie, but I'm rarely able to get into them. That's why I often do a quick google search for books that are upcoming film adaptations. I watch a lot of movies, so this just gives me a heads up to read the book first before I watch it. Here are some upcoming book-to-film adaptations. And all I could hear was the sound of the wasp nest My head made a home for the hum of the insects |