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I, personally, am excited. I loved the book, and think it would be a good movie. With a good director and script writer dude it could be pure gold. But that is exactly what I am worried about....will the movie get a good crew and positive media advertisement, since the media controls our minds, or will it be under-budgeted with a crappy director and suck?
I know it could be good, but will it? It will be hard to get someone who can truly portray autism in a person. Overall I am really excited!!!!Posts: 6026 | Registered: Dec 2004
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This will, I'm afraid, be a terrible movie. Without the filter of the narrator's voice to insulate the viewer from the rather grim and sordid details of the "real world" of the novel, it will be a nasty, mean-spirited mess.
The only way I could see them doing justice to the book would be to deliberately film it as, say, a genre homage of some sort, with obviously derivative filters -- sepia and streetlamps and child-sized props.
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Part of the reason this book is special is that it's told through the eyes of a young boy with autism. I find it difficult to believe that they'll be able to pull off such a first-person view in a movie. I hope they don't try to make it a slapstick comedy, as that really wasn't the point in the book.
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Just finished the book and I really, really don't want to see it as a movie. I don't see how they could begin.
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