[Animal Boything]

This is one of those things, like when comic book people talk about making Watchmen into a movie, that doesn't sit quite right with me because there would be so much lost in the translation. To me, The Catcher in the Rye defines its medium... it's a testament to the raw power of writing. The most they could hope for is to make a decent film out of a great book. The soul of that story is in the language, and most the language comes from inside the mind of a kid who mostly keeps to himself. It would be a bunch of long shots of him looking depressed with voice-over... and that's if they do a good job.

I'm not saying it should never be done... I guess there's potential there... but it's never gonna be as good as the book, so why go to the trouble?

If somebody wants to prove me wrong, more power to 'em. I'm really more of a movie person than a book person, and I think certain movies like Fight Club and Fear and Loathing surpassed their source material in many ways, but there's certain things that have never translated well, and I see this being one of them.