Post 5: The Notebook

I think that the hardest part with making The Notebook into a film would be going back and forth with the flash backs bcause sometimes people have a little trouble following them. They do help explain the story and it makes sense in the book but I would think that it might be a little difficult to transfer that into a movie. You would have to find more actors to have the younger and the older versions of them and even change their styles that would evolve through the years in the story. The first scene that I would not want to be left out of an adaptation would be when Allie and Noah meet during the summer when she is visiting for the summer and Allie goes to the carnival with a girl that Noah and his best friend Finn knows and they end up meeting and they hang out at the carnival. Then later that night Noah asks Allie on a date and that is the start of their epic love story. The second scene I would want to include would be when they have dinner together after fourteen years and Allie tells him that she is engaged to be married but that she had to come back and see him one more time. They both expect to just become friends but they fall in love with each other all over again and it's one of the major turn points in the story. Adding to the previous my third scene that I would want to include would be a day after their dinner when Allie's mother comes to Noah's and tells her that her soon to be husband was in town looking for her and she was going to have to make a decision. Leave Lon and be with Noah who she had always loved or never see Noah again and stay with Lon. I chose that as my final scene I would keep beacause you never know for sure what her decision is your kind of left there wondering for a bit. There are two parts that I would leave out in the movie adaption. The first one would be the first 50-100 pages because it is mainly just Noah explaining parts of their everyday life then when they are much much older which isn't entirely as important. Or at least doesn't need that much detail it could just be a quick couple scenes instead of almost half the book it seems. The second part I would leave out would be when Noah is working in New Jersey right before the war because it didn't really contribute anything major to the story that was needed it was just sort of added in. When it probably could have just been mentioned in passing.