Film Adaption of 13 Reason Why
The book itself by Jay Asher is beyond beautiful. It taught me to give life a new perspective and I really am greatly influenced by this book even if I just read it overnight. What really got me awake was the rumour that there will be a film adaption. I was okay with that I mean, I imagined it to be in a film anyway but when i found out who would be the cast, I lost it.
Based on this mtv article. I initially thought, “Selena as Hannah Baker?! Are you kidding me?!” I really didn’t want it to be like this because Selena can’t really act in my opinion. To further expand my thoughts on this, here are 13 reasons why I would like/dislike 13 Reasons Why to become a film.
- DISLIKE: Selena Gomez as Hannah Baker. Yes, Selena is pretty just as how Hannah probably is but, I cannot imagine Selena take such a serious role with so much emotion. The book itself made me feel so much emotion and having it to be acted upon is a tough act to follow.
- LIKE: If, and only if this film was nicely portrayed, it could give inspiration to the youth.
- DISLIKE: For some reason, I thought that peer pressure could fit here. Some people may be influenced for all the wrong reasons.
- LIKE: When I found out that Logan Lerman was rumored to be casted as Clay, I really got excited. Logan was casted as Charlie in Perks and I absolutely love it because this character had lots of awkward stages and emotion to follow. Charlie was such an emotional person. I believe Logan could portray Clay.
- DISLIKE: Point number 4 would most likely not happen because of Logan being part of the production of Perks.
- DISLIKE: I honesty don’t want to get the book to become mainstream. As much as it deserves to become famous for the amazing message, I don’t want people to think that just because you know something doesn’t mean you are the queen/king of it.
- LIKE: I’m very curious to see how the book will be adapted in a 3-4 hour film.
- DISLIKE: If this movie gets release, I hoped it will be shown in the Philippines. It sucks that some movies are shown late but, you know what they say: Better late than never.
- LIKE: I want to see the cast. Who would be Courtney? Tyler? Justin?
- LIKE: Curious to see if the directors/writers would edit some parts out.
- DISLIKE: If those the movie doesn’t portray certain events that eventually affected the take-off of suspense and etc.
- DISLIKE: Some people will conclude shit like they know everything about the book because it turned into a movie. (Similar to number 6)
- DISLIKE: This might appear to graphic.
I am no expert in movies, but this is just my opinion about the film adaption. Either way, I will still give this a chance. The book gave me hope, I guess this would too.
