Can I please just say that I can be very ambivalent at times and not only that, I tend to ricochet back and forth from the third person pronoun to the first like a mad woman (my previous post is proof and I am ashamed at how I suck at proofreading)
So anyway, they are making a movie out of one of my favorite books of all time: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer.
First thing that came into my mind: HOLY SHIT!!! IT'S TOM HANKS!!!! AKSFHAKFHA AND SANDRA BULLOCK! BUT SHE'S OLD!!!
Second thing that came into my mind: Where the hell is Anna?
Anna is my favorite character in the entire book. I thought that making this into a movie would be impossible. I have seen Foer's other book (Everything is Illuminated) turned into a movie and disappointed is not even a bad enough word to describe it (AND DON'T EVEN LET ME GET STARTED ON NORWEGIAN WOOD BY MURAKAMI!!!).
After seeing the trailer, I'm not so sure if I still want to see it. They focused more on the 9/11 incident, but not even a shadow of Anna was seen. Anna is Oscar's grandmother, and from chapter to chapter, the story switches from the present to the 40s when Anna was still a little girl and how she lost absolutely everything in one night, and how in the future, she settled to be second best. It was absolutely one of the saddest stories I've ever read, and unlike Brod's story in Everything is Illuminated, Anna's story is actually realistic, and may have actually happened to someone or dozens of people after WW2.
But anyway, horrible or not, I'd like to see them give this book some justice.
