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From: Daniels, Ann <ADaniels>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:42:19 -0700
Perhaps I am a bit out of it - I had not heard that there was to be a movie of The Lovely Bones. Just checked it out on imdb.com. The cast is amazing - Saiorse Ronan (13-year-old Briony from Atonement), Stanley Tucci, Mark Wahlberg, Rachael Weisz, Susan Sarandon. Peter Jackson, of the Lord of the Rings movies, directs - an odd choice, to my mind.
How will Hollywood treat this? The trailer makes it look rather like a thriller, which is not how I remember the book; but the trailer may not be representative of the movie. If the movie is at all true to the book, it will be heavily narrated, which is sometimes awkward. And - no spoiler here, it's in the first sentence of the novel - it will be narrated by a dead person, which can be more awkward still. Will the movie be graceful or klunky?
I guess the most telling part, to me, will be whether the movie can capture the astonishing unusualness of Sebold's book, or whether it will reduce it to just a series of familiar-feeling backdrops, plot elements and special effects without the - forgive me - spirit of Susie Salmon and the book in which she resides.
Ann Daniels Families for Literacy Coordinator Second Start Adult Literacy Program 1801 Adeline Street, Oakland CA 94607 adaniels at oaklandlibrary.org
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Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:42:19 -0700
Perhaps I am a bit out of it - I had not heard that there was to be a movie of The Lovely Bones. Just checked it out on imdb.com. The cast is amazing - Saiorse Ronan (13-year-old Briony from Atonement), Stanley Tucci, Mark Wahlberg, Rachael Weisz, Susan Sarandon. Peter Jackson, of the Lord of the Rings movies, directs - an odd choice, to my mind.
How will Hollywood treat this? The trailer makes it look rather like a thriller, which is not how I remember the book; but the trailer may not be representative of the movie. If the movie is at all true to the book, it will be heavily narrated, which is sometimes awkward. And - no spoiler here, it's in the first sentence of the novel - it will be narrated by a dead person, which can be more awkward still. Will the movie be graceful or klunky?
I guess the most telling part, to me, will be whether the movie can capture the astonishing unusualness of Sebold's book, or whether it will reduce it to just a series of familiar-feeling backdrops, plot elements and special effects without the - forgive me - spirit of Susie Salmon and the book in which she resides.
Ann Daniels Families for Literacy Coordinator Second Start Adult Literacy Program 1801 Adeline Street, Oakland CA 94607 adaniels at oaklandlibrary.org
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