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Julianne Moore and more


I really hope that it is true that Julianne Moore is going to play Pamela from this novel. Well.. at least, if the script stays true to the book, then I hope that it's true. Seeing as this is done by Killer Films, I think everything will turn out fantastic... as usual... but the complexity of the project has me worried.

The book makes you feel like it is a movie already. In fact, Beckett (the main character) seems to see the world like a movie (talking about movie-making processes, The Final Girl theory, the audience, and screens); however, I'm not sure HOW this very internal struggle inside this very lost young girl is going to find its way externally onto film. Also, I feel that the book should not be read so much analytically as it should be read emotionally. If you are lead to be too intellectual about it and read with your mind, then it just becomes almost didactic about what we are, as a culture, doing to today's young women. If you read the book with your heart, then you FEEL what we are doing...and I'm still enthralled by the book's underlying, bleeding truth.

The movie is going to need to balance all this out in a very cinematic way. I don't envy that screenwriter.

With that said there are two moments that stick out to me in this book that I especially would love to see make it onto the screen... They are kind of small, but I love them.

**POSSIBLE SPOILERS****

1.) The section where Beckett basically lets you in on the fact that it wasn't real. That "it doesn't matter if things are real. It just matters if they are true." Also, I feel like the last lines are obviously important.
2.) Also, I love this one section where Pamela (oh god, hopefully Moore!) is clearing the dinner table, and she reaches for Beckett's plate with a huge smile on her face. Suddenly, the frame freezes, and Beckett sees it all like a movie with everyone acting their parts all around her. Just that idea of how most of us just kinda go with the flow most of the time, but then there are those hyper-aware moments where everything suddenly seems like a manufactured movie still. Love it. (I actually think that scene would have more impact with Julianne Moore in the role- not just because she is all flavors of awesome- but because we do really know her as a famous actress, who we have seen already in many a production still. It might add to the believability when Beckett grows to mistrust Pamela's feelings towards her.)

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I like Abigail Breslin, and it looks like she's playing Beckett. I read the book years ago when I worked at a book store, and I really liked it.




AVADA KEDAVRA!!!

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I heard about Breslin! Exciting!!! What an amazing role for her...

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I hope the rumours are true and that Chloe Sevigny is playing Pamela.
Chloe is a fantastic actress, it'll be great if she is cast :D

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Nothing on this thread panned out sadly.

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The aforementioned actresses are probably all heaving a sigh of relief. This movie was abysmal.

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