This guy’s delusions were pretty hilarious. Unbelievable is right. I think the funniest part was that he actually believed that after all was said and done, he wouldn’t just be able to still have a career at ADM, but that he’d be the new president.
I wonder if he had the male equivalent of cute syndrome. If he could act cute/naive/innocent enough, he’d be not only let off the hook but thanked on top of it all! This guy had a real need for attention that for anyone observing, was pretty hilarious. But I’d hate to be his lawyer, FBI contact or his wife.
by Jeanne DuPrau
When is it okay to change details of the book for a movie? Is it okay when it makes the story better? I saw the movie City of Ember before I read the book and I really liked it. And I wondered how much was changed when they made the movie? Maybe they had to change the storyline to keep it moving. Some parts of the book were slow and perhaps not dramatic enough for to keep an audience entertained. But then who has ownership of it? If the directors and producers and actors make the story better than the author of the book had, who retains the rights? For without the author’s imagination, there would have been nothing, but without the additions by the movie makers, the story wouldn’t have been as rich.
I want to find out what happens to Lina and Doon and if the rest of the city will follow. So, onwards I go into the next book. We’ll see how it is once I get it from the TPL.
“There’s so much darkness in Ember, Lina. It’s not just outside, it’s inside us, too. Everyone has some darkness inside. It’s like a hungry creature. It wants and wants and wants with a terrible power. And the more you give it, the bigger and hungrier it gets.”
