Adaptations for "The Blind Side"
For my adaption book, I read "The Blind Side" by Michael Lewis, about an exceptionally large black boy named Michael Oher who, despite his color, makes it into an all-white Catholic School, Briarcrest. I think that the adaptation already made for the heart-felt novel is great. The things they incorporated that really needed to be in the movie were the scenes where: Michael gets his first bed when he was a sophomore, the teacher gives him a practice test to show his deep knowledge, and finally the scene of the football game against Munford where Michael picked up a racist defensive end and carried him only to slam him into the fence.
I chose the scene for Michael getting his first bed because this is a crucial moment in Michael's life to show what his past was like, how he was treated, what he even had as a kid, and it really speaks to Leigh Anne, and it would speak to any audience, giving it significance. I chose the scene where Michael takes the tests because it shows the doubt that everyone had in him slowly dissolve away after his results came back that he knew everything they were talking about. This shows a glimpse of Michael's past, to show that he never had proper schooling to learn in a real school. I finally chose the moment where Michael picked up the offensive kid who was making racial slurs against Michael, so Michael picked him up and carried him almost straight through the fence. I chose this because it shows that Michael wasn't completely submissive to all the hate he got from everyone that thought they would get away with it, that he had a pent up anger inside of him that he could only contain for so long. As quoted in the book, he wanted to take him to the bus, "'I got tired of him talking,' said Michael. 'It was time for him to go home." (Lewis 138). However, with all of the amazing moments in the novel, there were many that should have been left out.
Two things that the producers would have to cut would be the parts when: they were talking about the history of come teams, and also the part about the death of a lineman. For the part of the descriptions of the teams, they are either other schools like colleges or high schools, or they were pro-league, making them unnecessary to the plot of the book, because they aren't playing any of them nor does Michael play on any of the pro teams described. If anything, the team he does play on, the Ravens, and recently changed to the Titans. Also the death of a lineman wasn't completely unimportant, but it was, however, one of the more unimportant ones to Michael's timeline of football
