Adaption of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

I haven't seen the movie Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, but I have finished the book. The book is written in teh point of view of a young boy, Oskar. His father was killed during 9/11 and he is desperately trying to stay close to him. He's searching for answers about a key that he found while snooping in his dad's closet after he died. The book is mainly written in his thoughts. It could be challenging to incorporate all of his thoughts into the movie. Also, many of the chapters are letters that different people have written. It would be even harder to take the information from the letters and put it in the movie in a way that makes sense. His grandfather doesn't speak, either. He writes what he would say in a notebook for people to see. That would be hard too, because nobody wants to see a movie that's just showing what someone's writing. A way they could incorporate the letters is like how they did in Dear John, how the person who wrote the letter is saying it out loud, while they show the person reading it.

The first scene they need to keep incorporate into the adaption is before his father died. They need to include this because it shows how much Oskar loved his dad, and how much his dad meant to him. His dad was a big part of his life. Another would be when Oskar and his mom are fighting, and he tells her that he wishes it was her who died and not his dad. This is a very dramatic important scene that should be included because it shows his anger towards what happened, and how he’s mad at his mother for trying to move on, and how in a way he blames her for what happened. The third scene that needs to be included is in the end, when he discovers what the key is to, and how disappointed he is. Oskar and his mother finally can move on after two years of obsessing over the key, and they forgive each other.

Things I wouldn’t include would be some of the letters written about his Grandma and Grandpa’s lives before, when his Grandpa was dating his Grandma’s sister. It didn’t really have much to do with anything other than his Grandma and Grandpa’s relationship, and I think that it could be left out of the movie to include more important parts. And the other part I would leave out would be the part about his Grandma and Grandpa living together, when they are drifting apart and are describing the Something and Nothing places. It’s just confusing and it doesn’t really make any sense and I don’t think it should be added in the movie.