I've read the book time and time again and it is one of my personal favourites (although I don't think it should be counted as literature); I'd like to watch this film but I'd like to knwo if the lead character is meant to reflect Hodlen Caulfield because if he is, I dno't want to watch it, I jsut odn't think any actor can really capture Holden's presence.
I'd like to tell her that's all going to pass, but I don't want to lie to her.
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why should it not be counted as literature?
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They cant make a movie based on The Catcher In The Rye. According to an interview with J.D. Stalinger, He'd love to make the movie but he doesnt kno if holden will like it(refreeing to the book, as he thinks movies are phonies)
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btw, there's going to be a gigantic legal battle after J.D. Salinger dies. Directors really want to get their hands on a movie like that, because everyone would go see it. Even if his will says otherwise, his family can counter it.
sharethere would only be a legal battle if someone in his family decided to counter his very well-publicized desire NOT to have the novel adapted for the screen. i can't see that happening. not that i know them.
anyway, anyone who understands the book would never see it as a movie.
The book goes into the public domain in 2046. I will be 53 years old.
I'm with the monkey that's using the force!
Actually, it's been documented somewhat that J.D. Salinger had strained relations with his daughter, Margaret, as well as his one time fling, Joyce Maynard. (Read Margaret's memoir, "Dream Catcher" for all the sordid details.) I don't know how vindictive they are about what they went through, but I can certainly see either one of them (Maynard, perhaps) countering this "well-publicized desire," and talking with movie studios, producers and directors. Maynard would more likely would after how he supposedly broke up with her.
In 1972, at the age of 53, Salinger had a relationship with 18-year-old Joyce Maynard that lasted for nine months. Maynard, at this time, was already an experienced writer for Seventeen magazine. The New York Times had asked Maynard to write an article for them which, when published as "An Eighteen-Year-Old Looks Back On Life" on April 23, 1972, made her a celebrity. Salinger wrote a letter to her warning about living with fame. After exchanging 25 letters, Maynard moved in with Salinger the summer after her freshman year at Yale University. Maynard did not return to Yale that fall, and spent ten months as a guest in Salinger's Cornish home. The relationship ended, he told his daughter Margaret at a family outing, because Maynard wanted children, and he felt he was too old. However, in her own autobiography, Maynard paints a different picture, saying Salinger abruptly ended the relationship and refused to take her back. She had dropped out of Yale to be with him, even forgoing a scholarship. Maynard later writes in her own memoir how she came to find out that Salinger had begun relationships with young women by exchanging letters. One of those letter recipients included Salinger's last wife, a nurse who was already engaged to be married to someone else when she met the author.
Courtesy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Salinger#Last_publications_and_Mayn ard_relationship
Oh, yes, I can see Ms. Maynard countering the will like this for that reason alone.