My reaction to: An Essay by John Irving

          In this essay by John Irving himself about The Hotel New Hampshire, directed by Tony Richardson. John writes of the trail the movie production went through. When Tony came to John saying he wanted to make a movie of John's 5th novel John was flattered, though John didnt want to write the screen play. "Tony didn't even pretend to be disappointed when i told him ididn't want to write the screenplay; he wanted to write it himself, which he did." This provided a new voice to the story of the Berry's family and it added the faster funnier story now on tv. Tony's original plan for the adaptiaton was to create two movies but time and money didn't agree with him. Though even though she had to shorten everything he didn't wasnt to leave anything out. To transform his two movie dream to one he shortened some scences adding a fast pace to the movie. "By speeding up the story...Tony heightened both the comedic and the fairy-tale qualities of the book." This adaptation from book to movie has not only appealed to me but John, who loves Tony's movies." "Both film and book reviewers are often suspicious of flashforwarding." What John means by this flahforward is what I know as dual narrative voice. This means that during the film and novel the narrator would say something like "later on in life I learned that he felt the same way." It is a way of adding in information about the future that the characters themselves didnt know at the time. John loved the movie though somethings that were in his novel didnt come out so clear in the movie. One thing was that he couldnt really believe how Rob Lowe "a gorgeous boy--prettier than most girls" who played John Berry could be madly in love with Jodie Foster who "was not nearly attractive as a young girl as she has become."

Citation:               

Irving, John. "An Essay by John Irving." Interview. The Hotel New Hampshire. Random House.Web.23 Feb. 2011. http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345417954&view=auqa.

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