Presently, I am reading The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks. Adapting the book into a movie won’t be too challenging for the story line of The Lucky One because it is like most love stories. The movie needs to make sure that they have some important characters in the book such as Logan Thibault, Victor (Logan’s best friend from the military), Zeus (Logan’s dog), Beth, Nana (Beth’s grandma), Clayton (Beth’s ex-husband), and Ben (Beth’s son). Some of the challenges the filmmakers will have is making sure that the movie has the correct settings for important scenes that shouldn’t be cut or the story line will be wrong. The movie needs to make sure the first setting looks like Logan Thibault is Iraq and is fighting in the war. One major scene the producers will have to make sure the movie has in it is when Logan Thibault (the main character) is in Iraq fighting the war and finds a picture of a woman, the then carries this picture around with him and it eventually becomes his good luck charm. The next scene the movie needs to include is that of a small, southern town and that has a similar look to the Hamptons. It is important that the filmmakers make sure that Nana’s house/dog kennel is on an open land surrounded by trees. It truly needs to feel like they are in the country and this location is in the south. The movie needs to show Logan Thibault with his dog, Zeus hitchhiking. When Logan first reaches the Hamptons, he encounters a police officer, Clayton who is Beth’s ex-husband. The movie needs to demonstrate the initial encounter, and the development of an increasingly difficult relationship which becomes more complicated throughout the rest of the movie. The final scene that is critical to have in the movie is when Logan Thibault goes looking for the women in the picture and ends up finding Beth (the woman in the picture). Logan works at Beth’s grandmother’s dog kennel. This will set up their relationship and he will have to earn Beth’s trust so they can fall in love. An important aspect that the movie needs to depict is that Logan Thibualt is hiding the secret of why he actually came to find Beth. The secret is that Logan found Beth’s picture in Iraq and kept it for good luck. Along with falling in love, comes drama. For one thing, the filmmakers need to make sure the movie is more interesting than the book.
There are two minor parts from the book that the movie could cut out. First, is when Logan and Victor are on a boat and they get into an accident which then kills Victor. I feel like this part is not very important and it wouldn’t make a huge difference if they did cut this part out of the film. The second part the filmmakers could cut out is when Logan, Beth, and Ben all go to a pizza place to go out to dinner. This part just shows that Logan and Beth are dating and they just went out to eat with Ben. Now, the townspeople can start talking about Beth dating a new man since her divorce. I feel like if they cut these two minor parts of the movie it wouldn’t make a big difference and then the movie could focus on more of the drama and love developing in Logan and Beth’s relationship.
I agree that most love stories are easier to make into movies because thay are so common. Many directors have a lot of experience in developing love stories into a film. They would need to make good casting choices, though, because without good actors most movies are horrible. Unconvincing actors would be especially bad for a love story.
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