Book Thief –
Markus Zusak
Adaptation for the book, Book Thief has already been made
into a film. In opinion does not make the most sense to me to have made it into
a film. Where I am waiting to see the movie but I do know the book starts very
out very slow. It’s almost the first 100
pages it explains characters and her just fitting into her new life, there’s no
action that that grabs you in awe! I can see that a lot would had to been
changed in order to have made this film something actually worth watching,
otherwise no one would want to see a slow movie about a girl learning to read
and write half the film. An adaption that I would say would make the most sense
is a live musical. The changing of the scenes would make the storyline a lot
quicker, and how this book is very sad with her family dying and eventually
Liesel herself, incorporating the right music could make the story a lot more
effective. In order to make the play essential, key scenes that would need to
be kept, Liesel’s brother dying, the very first time she steals a book in the
cemetery, the moment at the beginning when she learns to trust Papa after a
nightmare, the other times she steals the books like out of the fire, Rudy Steiner and his Jesse Owen’s incident
with pretending to be an black Olympic runner, Max Vandenburg Han’s Jewish friend
hiding in their basement, Max writing a story for Liesel bringing their
friendship closer together; “The Standover Man,” Max’s march to Dachau where
the Jews go through Molching and Liesel for a quick time gets to see Max again,
Frau Hermann gave Liesel a book to write in which is the most important because
it’s Liesel writing the story, the bombing of Himmel and Liesel’s death. Where
there are many key scenes that need to be kept to be effective, without them
the book would lose a lot of its deep emotions and meaning, those scenes make
the book. As said before the changing of the scenes to make the storyline
quicker, or to start the book out quicker is what would need to be cut or
changed from this plot. Cutting minor or small respective things that occur
towards the beginning would help that. We know she struggles reading and
writing but taking the first 100 and something pages to explain that is unnecessary
so cutting that and shortening it for a Musical adaptation would be effective.
