I think The book Thief should be turned into a movie (even though it all ready is a movie) because there are so many interesting parts in the book that could be great action scenes in a movie. Making the book into a movie would make it come to life. The scenes that cannot be taken out of the story plot is when Liesel first comes to Molching, when she steals the books, when she visits the Mayor's home to read from his library with his wife, when Hans Junior comes to the home, when the Nazi soldiers come to the Huberman's to inspect their basement and the ending can't be left out.
All the little details about the laundry and soccer games don't need to be added. In the book the first 100 pages are about the soccer games and laundry. I think those scenes need to be present but not repeated as much as in the book because it takes up time that could be used for the major parts of the book.
Certain scenes, such as the ending, when most of Liesel family dies because of a bomb should be emphasized more and be dramatic. Liesel loses the family that took care of her even when they didn't have enough money to take care of themselves. She has lost so many people in her family that tragedy is taking over her life. I don't think the movie should talk much about her moving away and having children because the movie needs to focus on the book she wrote. It needs to focus on her childhood. There can be a little excerpt explaining what happened to her after everyone she loved died.
The cast for the book thief could be Chloë Grace Moretz as Liesel because she does well in sad movies such as If I Stay. she can be very dramatic and would fit well with this role. Hans Huberman can be acted by his character in the movie that was created a few years ago because he is a great actor in the movie.
The movie shouldn't be exactly like the book because there is so much added information to story that can't be shoved into a two hour movie. This was a book that I didn't enjoy too much because the plot was very slow and not interesting but the movie captures the watcher's attention.
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