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Dear Hardworking Universal Employee,

I know you’re busy, but if you want to make some money, read this. My English/Language arts class recently read a book called Island of the Blue Dolphins. We then watched the movie, which was made by your company. The majority of our class thought that it wasn’t as good as it could’ve been. Now that it is the movie’s 50th anniversary, we were hoping you could make a more up-to-date remake. If you still need more reasons why you should remake this movie, here are some.

Island of the Blue Dolphins has the popular theme of survival. Other successful survival movies are The Hunger Games, Life of Pi, World War Z, Captain Phillips, and Cast Away.Afterall, Island of the Blue Dolphins is a true story. There really was a girl whose family got killed, was alone on an island for 30 years, and had to survive on her own for all that time. Sounds exciting right? Unfortunately, your movie didn’t show most of it.

Many of the action scenes from the book were not included in the movie. One amazing scene that was not included in the movie was the big tsunami, which sounded like “great spears...breaking in battle” as it says in the book. Or the breathtaking dog fight where Rontu, Karana’s dog, had to prove his dominance and killed the other alpha dogs. There was even an octopus battle where the main character, Karana, had to kill the octopus or die. With our modern technology, these things will look outstanding.

If you really want to go all the way with this remake, you should use all of today’s cool special effects. In one part of the book the main character, Karana, imagines the ghosts of her people. With our technology, you can make ghost-like figures wandering around the deserted village. Also, in the big battle scene, there was absolutely no blood. You should add enough blood to make it realistic, but not too much to take it out of the PG-13 rating. Although you may think that this will cost more money than it’s worth, I believe that with the popular theme of survival, and the fact that it is a true story, will make it a big money-maker. Also, this movie will have more action scenes than most other survival themed movies if you use the book. And the modern technology will be icing on the cake. So, call up your best actors, directors, and producers because this is the next big hit!

Universal fan, James **Return to My Index**

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