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Dear Producer,

My sixth grade class recently read the novel Island of the Blue Dolphins, and then saw your movie which was made in 1964. We noticed a few differences in the movie compared to the book. Because 2014 is the 50th anniversary of the movie, I think you should remake the movie. I have a few reasons why that might help.

The first reason you should remake is the many important scenes were left out of the movie. You may think that these scenes are not important, but they are. are not The earthquake, and tsunami scenes were skipped in the movie, and now there are special effects. The fight with the two dogs and Rontu was also skipped and the scene that Karana nearly dies because of the sea elephants. Added these scenes would add more excitement to the movie.

The next thing is that adding better actors to the part will be better. For example, the character Ulape was missing, and adding her would make it more dramatic because she did not go and get karana when she jumped in the water. Also Karana was not very good for her part, because she did not look very exotic looking, and she did not have long hair. Chief Chowig could have looked more exotic looking too. So I think it would be better to fit the characters to the part better.

Last thing is that adding special effects will help. Since Karana was in the island for almost 20 years, so making her look older throughout the years would help. Using special effects with the earthquake and tsunami scene would help, considering it was not in the movie. The beginning of the tsunami scene, for example, is described in the book like this; “ There was faint sound as if some giant animal were sucking the air in and in through its teeth. The rumbling came closer out of an empty sky, filling my ears. Last adding sound effects can help.

Island of the Blue dolphins was a great book but the movie could be better with some of these things. The main things you should fix if you remake the movie is adding the examples. Some people may think that this movie is good but you can make it better by adding some of these things. I think adding a few of these things would make the movie much better! Also it's the 50th an revisits of the movie so it's a great time to remake it. I think you should remake Island of the Blue Dolphins.

Sincerly,

Riley