Post #4 Adapting Safe Haven

I think the challenges of making the novel Safe Haven into a movie would have to be the characters personalities and insecurities. The settings of the novel would be pretty easy to capture because they are all almost the same and pretty basic settings. The hardest thing to capture with Katie would be her constant fear and worry, like she always has to be looking over her shoulder. She has a very closed off personality also, in the beginning. Also, I think the scene of the festival would be hard to capture because it’s very crowded and they are all having fun but Katie has this constant feeling of being watched and I think that would be a hard emotion to capture. The plot of the story might be hard because of how it constantly goes back and forth from the past to the present with “Erin” and Kevin’s relationship. It has to be done really well so everyone knows and can distinct the difference. I really don’t like how they changed the appearance of the characters in the novel in the movie because the ways the characters are described have crucial meaning behind it, especially the color of Katie’s hair. It’s supposed to be brown because she dyed it and cut it so she wouldn’t look like “Erin” her true self, so Kevin can’t find her, but in the movie they keep it blonde? Also Alex is supposed to have gray hair in the movie but he doesn’t, it shows the troubles he has had to go through in his past to create the life he has made for himself and his kids.

The three main scenes you have to keep in this novel would be the story telling about Kevin and Katie’s past, when Katie and Alex fall in love, and the big fight with Kevin and Katie where he burns the house and Katie has to save the kids and at the end she ends up killing Kevin. Those are very crucial to the book because that is basically the three scenes the book is based off of. I hate the fact that they cut out in the movie how Kevin almost found Katie right after she left, it shows how afraid she really has to be and why she has that reason to be afraid and careful.

If I could cut out two scenes to make the book better adapted into a movie, I would cut out the scene where it is solely based on Katie fixing up the house, it honestly isn’t that important of a scene. I would also cut out some of the scenes where Katie walks to the store, not all of those scenes where crucial to the story line, only some were. I wouldn’t cut out any side characters because none were mentioned except for the ones that play a role in how they got to where they are and those are crucial to the story or else it wouldn’t end how it was suppose too.