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Saturday, March 15, 2014

Movies: ideas from books

The movie industry seems to be a very low point in its life cycle. Attendance is down, ticket prices are up, and both of those have to do with, well, there just aren’t very many good movies these days.

Mostly, we get recycled scripts, sequels of sequels, and pretty much trash. How much horror, sex, or violence can you scrape together and put it on film?

That’s why I’m looking forward to Heaven is For Real coming out soon, of which I’m cautiously optimistic.

Books are often sources for movies, and although the books are usually still much better than the screen versions, at least they can provide unique or interesting story lines. If Hollywood needs more ideas, and sure appears that it does, here are a couple I’d suggest:

• Cheryl Strayed’s “Wild” (reviewed here) – story of a woman’s difficulties in life, followed by which she turned it around by hiking 1,100 miles alone through California and Oregon.

• “The Fourth Procedure” by Stanley Pottinger. Simply, the main characters on opposite sides of the abortion rights debate are put into circumstances in which their self-interests are deeply in conflict with their political/philosophical positions. I won’t spoil it with more; enjoy reading the book.

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