Short Story to Film Adaptation Essay

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Small Avalanches1One of the biggest challenges for Munro was simply getting the rights to the story to make the film. She called three times a week for 2 months to Oates’ literary agent and got nowhere. Finally, she just went to where Oates was teaching at Princeton, waited outside her office, and spoke to her in person and that is how she got permission to use the story for her film.2It seems that Munro was successful, although it is not quite how I pictured it in my head. That is always the problem with reading a story first and then watching someone’s interpretation of it on screen. It is never like what you imagined it to be when you read it. It also takes some shortcuts: for instance, it starts off with the girl already at her uncle’s and it doesn’t really get to the heart of her character and her boredom at being in a small town and wanting to be somewhere else. It moves quickly through the major plot points but really it should have taken its time and shown the girl to be more afraid of big city dreams and real life than she realizes.3EXT. UNCLE’S AUTO SHOP – DAYTeenage girl sits on hood of old used car. She hops down, walks to where her uncle is working underneath another car. The make and model suggest the year is sometime in the 1960s.GIRLUncle Winfield, is Georgia at home?UNCLE WINFIELD(lying on the ground, half under the car)No, went into town babysitting.GIRLIs that man coming today to take money out of the machines?UNCLE WINFIELDWhat you say?GIRLThat man.…

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…all the time. You know you never did tell me your name.GIRLIt’s Nancy.

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MANNancy! Nancy what?GIRLI don’t know.MAN(smiling and leering at her)Nancy I-don’t-know.GIRL(stopping at a gate)Well, goodbye! I’m gonna cut over this way.She crosses over barbed wire and makes her way up a hill. She looks behind and sees the man following. She moves faster to get away, scampering up a hill. He begins to give chase. She goes up a steep hill that he struggles to climb. She reaches the top and stands looking down at him. He is clutching his chest like he is having a heart attack.MANDon’t leave me!GIRLGo on! Go on now and get back in your white car and go on!She turns her back on him and heads home and into her house where she begins to help her mother with….....

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