PROMPT #4
Final Assignment Due Saturday, August 19, 2017 Choose ONE of the following prompts to respond to. See the instructions on my homework page for details about what your response should include and look like in order to receive full credit. A. There is no film version of A Prayer for Owen Meany. It was attempted once, but during filming, John Irving pulled his name and the title when he saw that the story being made had begun to drift too far from what he had written. Now that you have had time to think about the story and its characters, what would you identify as some of the challenges this book might present to filmmakers wanting to translate it onto the big screen? Are there particular actors you could imagine in certain roles? Which scenes or parts of the book do you think could be cut, if they had to be, in order to turn the book into a movie? If you were writing the screenplay, are there any events you would change to make the story "better" or more appealing ...