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Dear Universal Pictures,

Our class read the book Island of the Blue Dolphins and saw your movie Island of the Blue Dolphins as well. Island of the Blue Dolphins is about a girl, Karana, who is left behind when her tribe leaves their island. She is left to fend for herself against everything that nature throws at her. Although the movie was good, I think the book was amazing. I believe that Island of the Blue Dolphins should be remade. Since it is your 50th anniversary from when you made the movie, now would be the perfect time to remake it. This movie was one of the best of its time and now the remake could be the best of our time.

People nowadays really enjoy watching survival movies. Some good examples of survival movies are Hunger Games, After Earth, and Lone Survivor. The reason people love to watch survival movies is that it keeps them on the edge of their seat and keeps them guessing. People also like survival movies that are based on a true story, they are more interesting to the viewer because it actually happened in real life. Island of the Blue Dolphins is based on a true story. The remake of this movie would definitely be a hit nowadays because everybody loves survival movies.

The original movie left out many of the intense scenes from the book that people would love to see today. One of the intense scenes was when two sea elephants were battling for territory. During this fight, Karana hurt her leg trying to escape from the blood gushing battle of the sea elephants, as they fought they sounded like “rocks crashing together.” Another intense scene that was left out of the movie was when Karana attacked the devilfish. The devilfish put up a huge fight, and almost choked her pet dog Rontu to death so she had to stab the devilfish multiple times with her knife until it died. The last intense scene that was left out was when there was a huge Tsunami on Karana’s island. She had to hang onto a cliff wall to survive the waves that were batting down on her. If she climbed up, the odds were she would slip down. If she climbed down, she would be pulled under the waves. Her only choice was to wait hanging on the cliff. With all these intense scenes, the remake of the movie would definitely be a hit.

The original movie, because it was made a long time ago, wasn’t very graphic and didn’t have good special effects. By adding special effects to the movie it would make the viewer feel like they were literally there watching Karana survive by herself. Also, there was not any fake blood in the movie except a little bit on Rontu when he got in a fight. There wasn’t even any blood when a man got shot in the chest with a gun, he just fell over. Also, Ramo, Karana’s little brother, was attacked by dogs and killed. There was supposed to be blood all over his neck where the dogs attacked him like in the book but there wasn’t. Fake blood makes the movie more realistic and without it the movie isn’t as interesting.

Although I would like to see Island of the Blue Dolphins remade, some people you work with might not. Yes, this movie is old but it is very interesting and you get very close to the characters. Some people might say that it’s not worth remaking this movie and that it will cost too much, but in the end you’ll be bringing in a lot of money. Other people might say that some people just might not enjoy watching this movie but if you add what I said from the paragraphs above, this movie will definitely be a success. I think a lot of people will love this movie and it definitely deserves to be remade.

From, Jarod