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salingerWith a recent discussion among the editing team whether it is really necessary to turn books like Where the Wild Things Are into movies, here’s a nice and still relevant comment from the past, by none other than Mr. J. D. Salinger himself, explaining why a film of his masterpiece Catcher in the Rye is just not an option. It’s rare, what we call having a backbone in German.

Via Another’s Experiences

This was written by kvr. Posted on Sunday, January 17, 2010, at 15:41. Filed under film, literature. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

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