Blog Post #4

Blog Post #4

By: Lauren Van Kleunen

Throughout the book I think there would be many challenges a director would have when creating a movie for “The Perks of being a Wallflower.” I think the filmmakers would have trouble trying to find the right characters to play the parts of each individual. I think it would be hard because you kind of have to infer how they act because they don’t come out and say it, which is a little hard for the directors. Another thing that would be hard for the filmmakers would be the plot line because again you have to infer about what is going on, but you know a little about the plot due to the title of the book because you know it’s going to be about a kid who is very quiet and doesn't have a lot of friends and kind of floats through life.

One scene I think that is essential to the movie is when Charlie meets Patrick and Sam because without that scene there wouldn't be a movie. Those two characters, Patrick and Sam, have so many parts throughout the story that it wouldn't be right to not have them in there. Another scene that I think would be a good part in the movie which I think it is but I’m not positive because I haven’t seen the movie is when Sam stands up in the back of Patrick’s truck with Charlie sitting right there and his words during that scene are “I’m invisible.” The last scene I think they need to add is when we find out that Patrick is gay. I think that if it was in the movie it shows a lesson to people that “Show people who you truly are,” so I think that scene shapes the book all together.

One scene that the filmmaker’s would have to cut out is when Charlie goes over to his parents family’s house and watches his brother play football on television because I think that has no significant value to the story and it is an extra scene that is include in there, that shouldn't be. Another scene that I think should be cut out of the movie is all the scenes when he talks about Bill, or sees Bill at school. I think they should cut those scenes out because it’s not affecting the plot in anyway so I think it is just an unnecessary scene.