The film is deeply satisfying on that level in a way the book can’t be. This film lets them meet Ma directly, actually see, flickering on her face, those combinations of fear and fun when she’s with Jack. I will never write them a sequel, but this film answers them. “I’ve been harassed for five years by fans writing to say, ‘We want more Ma! Can you tell the whole story again from Ma’s point of view? Or can you give us a sequel in which Ma looks back on her youth, or can we have scenes between Ma and her therapist?’ Because Ma is only shown indirectly through Jack, they crave more Ma. But she thinks making this film will satisfy fans of Room in a very surprising way. Still, she had to cut scenes she thought worked well in the book. More: 7 Differences between Me and Earl and the Dying Girl and The Fault in Our Stars He said, ‘We will get a mainstream audience for this film if we do it fearlessly and without compromise.'”
It really helped that he was coming from a more European, art-house tradition. As the first meeting, he promised me he’d keep in the breastfeeding and kept to the basic structure of the book as well. “Lenny wasn’t nervous about any of the unusual aspects of the project. Her director, Lenny Abrahamson, told her not to listen to the screenwriting books and to stick to the novel. How do we make him push the story, maybe come up with some technique in the second half for getting Ma out of the mental hospital.” I was thinking, the problem is, Jack is sort of passive because he’s a child. For instance, I read that your main character has to make the story happen. “I had this giant pile of books on screenwriting and wanted to follow the rules. In her first attempt at the screenplay, Donoghue admits adding scenes that weren’t in the book simply because she thought she had to. Author Emma Donoghue explains what was lost - and what was gained - as she adapted her book for the screen. The international best-selling novel Room tells the story of a 5-year-old boy and his mother struggling to escape a brutal captor who keeps them locked in an underground shed.
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