Adapting Book

A film maker would have trouble adapting The Help into a movie because it is told from many different points of views. In a book it is easy to change points of views and still understand what is happening but in a movie it would be hard to flow from one person to the next and have everything still make sense. I think in the movie it would have to be told from only one or two points of view.

Three scenes I think are important to keep would be when Abilene is making food for Miss Leefolt and her friends and over hears them talking about the help needing their own separate bathroom so they do not have to use the same one as them . When Minnie gets fired from Miss Hilly’s house is also an important scene. Miss Hilly says that Minnie stole her silver and told everyone else. No one would hire Minnie after that even though she didn’t really steel the silver. The last important scene is when Miss Celia has Minnie come over to her house for a job interview. Miss Celia has a very large house and is in the middle of the cotton fields. No one she had interviewed wanted to clean it so when she was done showing Minnie around she assumed she didn’t want the job. Minnie said she would take it though so now she has a job and it is paying more than her last.

The first part of the book I would cut out is when Miss Hilly puts her mom in a nursing home. It is kind of important but is in not necessary not keep the plot moving and the movie would not be missing anything big without it. The second part of the book I would cut out is when Abilene is in the baby’s room in the beginning of the book. Nothing is happening in this scene. She is just talking about the baby and the house. It is one of the slowest parts of the book and the movie does not need it nor does the movie need it to stay close to the book. I have not seen this movie yet but I heard it is really good and stays close to the book.