<p>now with J.D. Salinger's death, there's undoubtedly speculation concerning the rights of the book being made into a movie. ever since its publication, dozens of directors/writers have wanted to get their grubby hands on it. of course, it's just speculation and it's merely a possibility (a greater one now that salinger is dead)...but what do you think of it being made it into a movie? ill share my thoughts later.</p>
<p>from entertainment weekly: "Hollywood has for years yearned to get their hands on that holy grail of screen rights: The Catcher in the Rye. Now that author J.D. Salinger has passed away, the question looms even larger. Much is being made of a 1957 letter to an enquirer in which he lays out his antipathy towards selling his work to filmmakers, but leaves open the door to a posthumous adaptation. In it he states: Firstly, it is possible that one day the rights will be sold. Since theres an ever-looming possibility that I wont die rich, I toy very seriously with the idea of leaving the unsold rights to my wife and daughter as a kind of insurance policy. It pleasures me no end, though, I might quickly add, to know that I wont have to see the results of the transaction.</p>
<p>For years, Salinger refused outright any requests to adapt his iconic 1951 novel. Much of his ire was rooted in a 1949 failure from Samuel Goldwyn called My Foolish Heart, which turned his short story Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut into a mushy, saccharine mess. From that point on, Salinger turned down a long list of notables, including Goldwyn (who had the nerve to ask for more), Billy Wilder, Elia Kazan (for the stage rights), and Steven Spielberg."</p>
<p>Isn’t part of it (that is, the book itself, including Holden’s commentary on his brother) that he hated Hollywood? This would be a slap in the face to Salinger’s legacy</p>
<p>I don’t want to see movies made of any literary work from or based on the lives of made writers in any of these categories:</p>
<p>Romanticism - a movement that was generally anti-establishment</p>
<p>John Milton - " person " " " " " " "</p>
<p>Any 20th Century writer that is a commentary on society, including but not limited to Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, James Joyce, Alexander Solzhenistsyn, Gore Vidal, and J.D. Salinger</p>
<p>^ yeah, exactly. the biggest problem for me though is that i cannot, for the life of me, fathom how they could possibly make the book into a successful movie. the entire book practically relies on holden’s inner thoughts/ramblings-how they could convey that cinematically…would be very difficult…perhaps impossibe, without butchering the essence of the story at least.</p>
<p>^ that too, which is thankfully why most good books have not been made into movies. Those that have usually lacked meaningful depth to being with</p>
<p>so weird…it was just 2 years ago that we were reading that book in english class & my teacher was telling us, “salinger refuses to allow a movie to be made…but-when he dies-movie rights will be up for grabs”.</p>
<p>i guess that was pretty fast 
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<p>We had questions about the Caulfield brothers in Quiz team today.</p>
<p>I liked the book, actually. I don’t think I’d like to see it turned into a movie.</p>
<p>One of my favorite books. I would hate to see it ruined by being adopted into a movie</p>
<p>I think it’d be taking an economical risk in making this a movie. Producers might fear backlash from Salinger’s and the book’s more devoted fans; not to mention getting over the bar set by the book would prove extremely difficult. Expectations are high and opposition exists, so it’d have to be one hell of a producer to make it work.</p>
<p>There’s always voice overs for Holden’s internal thoughts. He’s actually telling the whole thing to a therapist.</p>
<p>I just think it would be too hard for people to relate to. They would have to explore Allie and his death more extensively to show how badly it hurt him. Even then, it’s not the fifties, people are so diverse, it would be hard to explain why his “phonies” argument was valid.</p>