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Dear Universal Pictures Producers,

It’s your 50th anniversary! Of your movie Island of the Blue Dolphins that is. The storyline is about a girl named Karana who gets left behind on a deserted island and has to survive on her own for about twenty years. Our class has not only read the book but we have also watched your movie. Although it may have been popular in its time,1964, I think that it can be improved through modern day technology.

Coming from a twelve year girl I can say that survival is in. It seems that everything - movies, tv shows, books, game shows and more - is based on survival. Most survival movies are coming from your studios, which makes that much more sense for you to remake Island of the Blue Dolphins! Hunger Games, Lone Survivor, and Gravity are just some of survival movies that are flying off the charts! There are also thousands of survival tv shows. What makes survival shows, movies, ext. that much better is if its a true story, and your movie is a true story!

Since 1964, technology has improved greatly. Now you can put explosions, speed up time, and much more with one click of a button. Using modern day technology you can now create those intense scenes you missed in the original movie. Tsunamis, earthquakes and battles were so intense in the book but were either not included or had poor effects. In the book, when the tsunami was about to hit, the author stated that “ there was a faint sound as if a giant animal were sucking the air through its teeth.” Then when an earthquake occurred in the book the author said, “ the earth still rose and fell like a great animal breathing.” Yet in the movie that scene wasn’t even there, and that was the most intense, dramatic scene! Also, there was a scene in the book when the people of Ghalas-at fought the Aleuts and it was described as a bloodbath but in your movie although you did have that scene, there was not a drop of blood! But now, you can fix all that. You can add the sounds, the effects, everything, with modern day technology.

Actors have also improved. There are now acting coaches that can improve an actors/actresses ability to preform. In the 1964 version of Island of the Blue Dolphins it seemed that the actors/actresses were confused of where to use inflection, but now almost every American actor is capable of talking fluent english. Also some of the characteristics of characters in the book don’t match up with the appearance of the actors in the movie. Casting could be chosen more carefully this time maybe.

Although this movie was great in its time, technology, the english language, and trends have advanced. Though some may think it shouldn’t be remade because it is old and a classic, many classics have been remade and been a hit. As they always say,”there is always room for improvement.”

Mackenzie Brown

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