Why hasn't a film been made about Catcher in the Rye? I

>>84784952
Salinger said no, but you should know this if you weren't a phonie.

>>84785028
You're killing me

>>84784952
Salinger said so
+ itd be fucking awful.

I never read that book

Quick rundown, please!? Heard main character was fucking edgy

http://collider.com/catcher-in-the-rye-movie-rejection-jd-salinger/

Don't ruin the book for people who haven't read it.

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>>84785112
Who would you cast as Holden?

Cast? Besides Gosling.

Anyway, the movie we're all waiting for is A Confederacy of Dunces.

good book, but it'd be difficult to make a profitable movie with such an unlikable main character

>>84785180
James Dean

>>84785204
Holden Caulfield is likeable as fuck though

>>84785180
Michael Cera

>>84785180
Christian Slater or Corey Feldman.

>>84785180
Woody Allen.

>>84785318
ew no

>>84785180
levi miller

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>>84785180
That annoying faggot,(Paul something or other) from There Will be Blood.

it would make a shit movie because most of the interesting stuff takes place in the narrators head. its more about his thoughts and feelings than the actual events of the book, which are pretty boring.

>>84785160
Rich kid that hates everything and everyone goes to the city to fool around, then is too autistic to actually do anything and gets caught. Kid calls everyone "phonies." There's one part where he was so much of a beta that he hired a prostitute his age just so he could talk to her, then her pimp slaps the shit out of him

>>84785482
Kek, I'd see that movie

Wouldn't waste my time reading about an edgy kid again. Not since Infinite Jest (whivh is a really good, specially the non-Tennis parts of it)

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I'm straight but for some reason I had a weird crush on Holden as a teen

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>>84785616
>having a crush on a book character

Is it worth reading this book? Or is it one of those 'must read' books because it's old?

>>84784952
Salinger hates hollywood

The scene in which Holden rapes his sister Phoebe would be too triggering for modern audiences.

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>>84787284
/lit/ go

>>84785787
book waifus are the best waifus tho

>>84787016
It's essential reading for anons and future serial killers.

Normies will just think Holden is an edgelord.

>>84787566
Is he a kid Travis Bickle or something

>>84787608
Sort of, but not homicidal. It's also cute how he is offended by graffiti that says "fuck you" because his sister might see it.

>>84784952
There was a movie made. It's called Conspiracy and it has Mel Gibson in it.

>>84784952
Because it wouldn't work as a film and Holden hated movies.
Also Holden rape his sister.

The obituary for Salinger by the onion was great. Worth a read if you liked catcher in the rye.

>>84785180
Cole Sprouse is the only answer.

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>>84785180
J.D. Salinger's corpse

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>>84785180
The real life version

>>84788143

http://www.theonion.com/article/bunch-of-phonies-mourn-jd-salinger-2901

Also Igby Goes Down is the closest in spirit to the book and it sucks. Catcher should be read before you turn 16

>>84788508
I can relate to Holden and i'm 22

maybe i'm a manchild

>>84788508
>Catcher should be read before you turn 16
You mean after.

>>84785180
steve carrell

>>84788707
you mean Will ferrell

>>84785180
Bill Burr if he still had his red hair

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>tfw surrounded by phonies

>>84788739
no that would be phony ya phonie

steve carrell perfectly represents the trapped spirit of holden caulfield

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>>84789082
perhaps

CITR is acclaimed because of the writing and narration style, not the story, so it wouldn't really work as a movie

>>84785204
>such an unlikable main character

Literally what

He's like the most relatable character ever

>>84785180
idris elba

>>84785472
Classic

dude ennui lmao

Holden could be played by Will Smiths son.

>>84792194
>cinema can't do that!
what a pleb

>>84785180
me

>I think it would make a damn good movie, I really do
No it wouldn't. Maybe it could work as a walking simulator game but definitely not a movie.

>>84784952
no director has the touch to convey holden's molestation and phoebe's rape implicitly without making it farcical
rip pinecone mag

>>84784952
It would make a goddamn crumby movie

Now a movie about one of Old Thomas Hardy's books, that would be damn near perfect, it really would

>>84784952

Salinger said no and for good reason. Holden is always in the reader's mind and speaking directly to him. This is a book about the heart, not some visually heavy fantasy novel to be copy and pasted onto the screen. They turned Cloud Atlas into a movie and it was predictably a piece of ass for the same reason.

>>84790666
>it took 13 replies

Fuckins summerfags on vacation from plebbit

>>84792194
>novelistic novel
what did he mean by this?

>>84793860

Its strengths are derived from the strengths which are solely unique to literature. Movies have inherent strengths over other mediums as does music. It's not a hard concept to comprehend and has been the benchmark upon which people criticize the thought of a CITR movie adaptation.

Fucking troglodyte.

>>84785204
>unlikable
NORMIES GET OUT

>>84792194
>underlines The Catcher in the Rye every time like it's a fucking book report
What an autist

Igby Goes Down

>>84784952
It wouldn't. Unless an indie director with guaranteed financial backing did it, the entire story would be changed and perverted by the corporate execs who only green lit the project in the first place to make a buck.

That being said, the story is shit. Don't get me wrong, its good for what it is: a realistic coming of age tale from the perspective of an awkward, neglected youth. But thats literally all it is, and thats boring as fuck. Especially if you aren't now nor were you ever an awkward, neglected teen.

>>84787608
You should read it. There isn't a definitive interpretation of Holden's character, and everyone will give you a different opinion. It's by a Jewish author so of course you can expect sexual deviancy and paedophilia.

>>84788621
no before, because only edgy 15 year olds like it

>>84795706
>because only edgy 15 year olds like it
And that's why it should be read as a adult.

>>84795802
how does that make any sense?

>>84795842
Because most teenagers wouldn't be able to notice the subtext about Holden raping Phoebe.

>>84785476
This.

There have been other movies which fucked up the same way like 1984 but this would be much much worse

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>>84785204
You could argue they already made it.

it would be shit because holden caulfield is a 1950s incarnation of a fedora tipper but hollywood would either make him some numale like michael cera with the 21st century's retarded idea of what a fedora tipper is like and apply a bunch of normie facebook "introvert" memes to his personality, or just go overboard with the 1950s kitsch, missing the point either way

it would really only work as an indie hipster film made by people who understand that fedora tippers aren't appealing enough to make millions of dollars. even though the book was/is popular with normies, it's not popular enough today to bring in the spades of jewgold hollywood is hoping for. not if you did an accurate portrayal anyway.

>>84793801
>cloud atlas was a piece of ass

*flawed masterpiece

that fantasy parts were shit but some of those scenes were apex kino. when that dude got tossed off the roof it blew my expectations tfo and I will remember it forever. not just for shock value, but for creativity.

>>84785180
A VF Commodore SS

>>84784952
Because the book sucks fucking balls

>>84797635
best book i've read

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no

>>84784952
>Diarrhea

>>84785204
Holden relatability is key to the book's popularity. People are ashamed to admit they see themselves in the character, and thus the "youre not supposed to like him" meme was born

>>84785180

I'm pretty sure I pictured him as young Jake Gyllenhaal when I read it years ago, that would have been good.

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>>84800567
he's literally just a rich faggot who never did anything noteworthy

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>>84801635
fuck this dumb nigger bitch she ruined the movie

>>84801698
>watching capeshit

>>84801698
She had like a grand total of 5 minutes of screen time. You're getting mad because we told you to. Being a useless piece of furniture with a handful of lines has never ruined any movie.

>>84785028
I heard the opposite. I heard he was eager for a film to be made about it. You're taking Holden's disgust for film and assuming it was Salinger's, which isn't the case; he loved film.

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>>84784952
If you wouldn't be a newfag you would know everyone attempted at some to make this movie. from spielberg to nobodies.

after sallinger's death the jews have realized the best possible outcome is to outsmart sallinger and make a biopic. There is a Rebel in the Rye movie starring hoult and spacey this year. But it got shit reviews so they will not use in the oscars and it will flop

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Holden is like Shinji.

You hate Holden because you hate yourself.

>>84802086
Nvm. I am actually retarded.

>I hate school I am gonna drop out
>I am gonna order a hooker and get bullied by the pimp
>I saw graffiti that said fuck, man, that was depressing

Pretty much all I remember from that book. The moral of the story was something like "life sucks but you'll do it anyway, BITCH" which is like a 15 mins movie tops.

>>84802102
Holden is like Asuka moron.

Asuka hates Shinji because she hates herself.

>>84802086
never post again

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>Predating VCRs, Salinger had an extensive collection of classic movies from the 1940s in 16 mm prints. Maynard wrote that "he loves movies, not films",[132]

>>84793860
Bakthin defined the novel as a 'diversity of social speech types [...] and a diversity of individual voices, artistically organised', referring to the inner divisions of a language into sociolects, dialects, etc.
What Salinger is talking about, then, is the minute little details and reflections that we get from Holden, like a kind of prism.

We can infer that what is not novelistic is either poetry, where the poet stands in a direct relation to the word and is not immediately concerned with the social and dialogic side of language; or maybe Salinger is thinking of film, whose intrinsic spacio-temporal continuity means that action and dialogue must be externalised, must be acted or spoken out by one of the visible characters or some omniscient narrator voice. Film is unable to capture the brooding artist of the novel, which is why Austens Pride and Prejudice is a great book, but the movies are shit, and the reason no Gatsby production has ever risen above mediocrity.

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>>84789082
this

>>84785190
Book humor does not into movie humor.

>>84784952
Stop ruining good books with awful movie adaptations. I'm glad that this book and a few others I like have never been adapted because that way I won't have to hear movie-only plebs saying stupid shit. The only people who talk about are the people who read it, i.e. the people who have earned the right to.

>>84802265
>Asuka is a genderswapped Holden Caulfield
Never thought about it this way. No wonder she's everyone's waifu.

>>84785160
It's like falling off a cliff and never hitting the ground.

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>>84785559
>wouldn't waste my time reading about an edgy kid again
>implying waste
>implying around 200 pages of simple prose is any time at all
>not liking the tennis parts of infinite meme
>implying they weren't some of the best parts
>implying you've read IJ in the first place
stop trying to fit in

>>84784952
because that autist J D Salinger said he'd only allow a film adaptation if he could play Holden.

>>84785160
How bout
you read the fucking book?
Damn it, it's fucking required high school reading.
The fuck are they teaching you?

>>84806401
not everyone on the internet is American you retard

>>84802849
You mean flicks

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>>84801635
When did JGL grow out his hair?

>>84806577
Okay excuse me.
Let's say the kid is from bumfuck, India.
Still doesn't change the fact that he should read the fucking book.

>>84806577
Read the book you illiterate shitbird its only like 200 pages.

>>84807196
How could a pajeet relate to Holden

>>84784952

Because its overrated pretentious trash?

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot

>>84785028
Salinger is fucking dead so it doesn't matter anyways. Netflix should just make a movie about it but cast Donald Glover as Holden and have it take place in modern day Brooklyn

>>84807340
I've read the book wankstain