PLEASE HOLLYWOOD DO NOT SCREW THIS ONE UP!
i generally don’t like when books are made into movies. except the chick flick ones. cause those were meant to be movies. i hated that cheated feeling you get when you’re thinking “HEY THAT’S NOT RIGHT!! THAT’S NOT HOW IT HAPPENED!!!” so indignant that this stupid movie with all these cool actors, graphics, and fancy tech stuff RUINS THE STORY COMPLETELY!!!
i read blue like jazz about once a year. since i believe the summer after my sophomore year in college. i really love how it’s so down to earth thinking outloud. and it goes through the gospel from so many different opinions. i love the situations miller goes through and how he learns from them, i love the people he meets, the nicknames he gives them. i read the book whenever i feel like im feeling distant from God. and it makes me reflect so much on my actions and my thoughts and really brings me back to the core and basis of the gospel.
and here comes hollywood. who’s gonna distort it, take all the right parts out, and give characters faces…MAYBE sometimes characters arent supposed to have faces when you read about them! ok this doesnt work for this book cause it’s about real people….but now they have fake faces! so it’s not actually gonna be Laura who’s accepting Christ. it’s gonna be random blond who’s pretending to accept Jesus into her life! and it’s not gonna actually be Andrew the Protester who’s gonna be feeding the homeless with his own breakfast station, but random actor who maybe doesn’t even care about the homeless! now all of these stories and clips they show in the movie are gonna be labeled “based on a true story”. and how much do you actually believe about a movie when you see that in small print?!
i don’t know this is so upsetting to me. i should be happy that a movie like this is coming out and so many more people can know these stories and watch the theme of Jesus being played on the big screen.
but….i guess cause Jesus is so much more than that? more than a theme. more than the underlying message of a movie that’s gonna try to look cool so it sells. people accepting Christ, living out the gospel, is not “based on a true story”. its a true story. i guess its just that movies distort people, situations, ideas, realities…and i don’t want Jesus to seem unreal. like an unseen movie character.
i guess i could just shut up about it and not watch the movie. or maybe this movie will be awesome and spread the message of the gospel like none other! yes, i am going to trust the author in making sure the movie is a good representation of not only the book, but of Jesus. crossing fingers.
so……..anyone wanna go watch? (when it comes out of course. the date is still tba)
