Blog post 4

A challenge that film makers would have to overcome is making the thoughts known and having the book in 3 different perspectives. Since the book is in Third person ominsenct has a lot of characters thoughts in it. Filmmakers will have trouble showing the characters thoughts in the movie. Also they will have to show the movie through all three perspectives.

One scene that is essential to keep is when Logan Thibault, the main character, is jogging and finds the picture of Beth while he’s in the war in Iraq. That scene is essential to keep because it’s where it all begins, he feels like he has to find her and repay her for saying his life throughout the war. Without that scene there wouldn’t be a book. The second scene that is important is when they first meet. This is important because you see how she felt about him at first and then you see how that evolves. The last important scene the filmmakers have to keep is when Logan and Keith Clayton, the sheriff and Beth’s ex-husband, meet. When Logan gets interrogated for looking suspicious and then slashes Claytons’ tires and stealing the police cameras. Another important scene they need to keep is when Logan and Clayton are trying to save Ben, and they don’t Zeus does. They need to keep this scene because it’s the suspenseful moment of the book and also determines the ending to it.

One scene that could be cut is when Logan first gets to town and is showing people the picture and asking if they know her. They can take this scene out because it’s not a very important scene compared to the other scene and its long. Another scene they could take out is one of the parts when he’s remembering the things that happened in Iraq. These scenes can also be taken out because their also not important and don’t really contribute to the plot.

BOOK 1 PROJECT

My idea is to make the Miss. Peregrine’s house into a museum! We refurbish the house. We try to salvage as much furniture and appliances as we can. Especially the weighted and belted furniture Olive used. If we need more furniture we could make or find old vintage things from WWI time period that they might have had in the house. From the explosion some of the house is gone so fix some of it and keep part of it open.  We dig up the bed with Victor and put him in his original room and make it so people have to pay to see him.  Have a display case for all the children’s toys, clothes and pictures. Sell replica toys and clothes at a gift shop in the basement and make a photo album of all the photos. There should be a series of them, make them collectables. Miss Peregrine’s house would be a tourist attraction. We could give away free trips so even more people would want to come. And of course we will sell copies of the book. Part of the museum tour would be going to the site that the time loop was at.

My idea comes from all the parts of the book. Most of them are when Jacob is with the children and in the house. Since the house would be over 100 years old with no one living it in there will be a lot of refurbishing. When Jacob is exploring the house he says “…rooms that had become more outside then inside, character striped away by moisture and wind and layers of dirt. The ground floor was hopeless… ” (Riggs 102) Trying to salvage the weighted and belted chairs connects to the book because in the book it says “Olive the levitating girl had to be belted into a chair screwed to the floor so that she wouldn’t float up into the ceiling.” (Riggs 162). In the house there is a chair probably still screwed to the floor where Olive used to sit, that could be used for part of the museum.  When the bomb hit it only damaged the ground floor. Finding the toys and clothes the children used won’t be hard because when Jacob is it exploring the house the book describes the toys and how they were left right before the bomb went off “killing” the children.  “…wooden toys moldering in a box; crayons on a windowsill, their colors dulled…a dollhouse with dolls inside, lifter in an ornate prison…” (Riggs 102-103) When Jacob finally opens up the trunk by breaking it he discovers it is filled with pictures, like the book says “…I found a box of letters…they weren’t letters but photographs… dozens of them” (Riggs 107) My idea of making a photo album of all the pictures and selling them connects to the book because Jacob found a lot of pictures that weren’t destroyed by the explosion.

Mrs. Peregrine"s house after it was destroyed.  This is where the museum will be. 

My idea of turning the Miss. Peregrines house into a museum will broaden the audiences. People like taking vacations and visiting new places. The book is already well known, readers will be pouring into it to get more of the book they loved. They will bring there families and tell there friends about it and their friends will want to read it, and then they will want to come. The museum is family friendly and could be a fun experience for them.  More people will want to read the book because they see all the cool stuff that the museum has to offer them so the idea will give the book a lot of attention. My Idea keeps the already fans still connected to the book because thye can get the clothes the children where, the toys they played with and they get to experience the lifestyle of the children that they loved and enjoyed reading about in the book. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWrNyVhSJUU  This is how i envisions the photo album that the giftshop would sell and what the inside/outside of the house would look like. 

A book is a computer.  A device that contains so much knowledge it just wants people to explore.  The computer and a book can teach you a lot. You can learn new things even if the book is just a Fantasy. There is still lessons that you can learn from it. A book is just another device, another way to learn new things.  I agree with Joe Meno when he says “ a book is actually a place, a place where we, as readers, still have the chance to engage in active imagining, translating word into image, connecting these images to memories, dreams and larger ideas. Television, film, even the stage play, have already been imagined for us, but the book, in whatever form we choose to interact with it, forces us to complete it… books provide us the place to imagine”  With books the author leaves how the book plays out and what the characters look like to your imagination. When you watch movies before you read the book you see the characters and the environment the way the director portrayed it. Reading books also expand your imagination.

                Reading a book on a kindle, ipad, or nook is not the same as holding the actual book in your hand. Although I don’t mind using kindles,ipads and nooks, I prefer the actual book. When I read books I like to flip back through to things I have already read, and if the book has pictures flip back to that too. I like the feeling of being able to flip through things easily.

Q: Do you agree with Victor LaValle when he says “It’s not the book, but the idea of the book” ?

B: I agree but disagree with Victor LaValle, I like the idea of having a book shelf full of books, I like the idea of being able to write in the margins, I like the idea of being able to hold a book in my hands and letting everyone know what I’m reading. But I also feel it is the book not just the idea of it, when Nancy Jo Sales says “There's something about the physicality of a book, the way it looks and feels and even smells” I agree with her. Some books have really cool covers that you can feel and aren’t just a flat piece of paper. There is something magical about just the book.