It looks like its going to suck terribly, just from the casting alone. Whatever results from it is most certainly not going to have any shared themes with the original material. I mean, how do you manage a puberty metaphor with a main character who has clearly passed and been treated well by puberty?
I don't know about how well this can work out. It's a slow and serious book. I am interested though.
I actually liked most of the book...except for that darn ending. I'll probably end up watching it anyway to see how the perfect society gets adapted on the big screen.
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If they don't shoot the first half in black and white, I will be unhappy.
It really doesn't help that a major plot point in the book revolves around both the idea that most of the charters are colorblind and that the reader doesn't know that. That's why I'm not terribly convinced that it can be adapted to a visual medium. The cast list just makes it worse.
^ I agree, The Giver is one of the few books where the first person narration is not just an artistic choice but a key plot element as well. It is about how he experiences these new things like color and music as foreign elements when the reader discovers that they ARE foreign elements halfway through.
That said, they can make some key structural tools to emulate much of the same feeling. Using small splotches of color in an otherwise Black and White movie has been used to great effect, to some degree all the way back to The Wizard Of Oz (switching between B&W to Color and back again).
This is going to suck. It seems like only one YA book adaptation is allowed to be good at a time, and right now that's reserved for The Hunger Games.
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Yes, they are adapting the book into a movie.
Taylor Swift has scored a role on the film.
Possibly as Fiona. I wonder if they will dye her hair?
Note: Swift's role is still a mystery. I'm just speculating.
As someone who enjoyed this book while reading it in school, I'm actually interested. Thoughts?
edited 27th Sep '13 10:55:42 PM by tclittle
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