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Dear Producer, My class and I have recently read the novel //Island of the Blue Dolphins// by Scott O’Dell. This is a book about a native american girl named Karana ,who was left on the Island of the Blue Dolphins after a series of unfortunate events that have happened on her tribe’s island. After we read the book my class and I watched the movie. I was so excited to watch it, but the movie was missing something. Honestly, the book was a little bit better than the movie.

I believe that you should remake the movie because the book is mostly about survival and survival is a very popular theme for movies or shows now. For instance, //The Walking Dead// is a very popular show about survival. The movie //Dawn of the Dead// is also about survival.Heck,Universal Pictures has made great survival movies too. And think, you can earn a lot of money too by making a great new survival movie for everyone to see.

Modern technology can recreate the natural disasters that happened during the story. With the modern technology that we have you can recreate a more realistic looking setting so it will look like a real beach. Best of all you can create the action scenes that were in the book but didn’t show up in the movie. A really good action scene was in chapter 2 and said: I do not know what happened first, whether it was my father who raised his hand aga- inst the hunter whose path he barred, whether it was this man who stepped forward with a bale of pelts on his ba- ck and shoved my father aside. It all happened so quickly that I could not tell one act from the other. But as I jumped to my fe- et and Ulape screamed and other cries sounded along the cliff, I saw a figure lying on the rocks. It was my father and blood  was on his face. Slowly he got to his feet. With their spears raised our men rushed down across the ledge. A puff of wh- ite smoke came from the deck of the ship. A loud noise echoed against the cliff. Five of our warriors fell and lay qu- iet. Ulape screamed again and hung a rock into the cove. It fell harmlessly bes- <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ide Captain Orlov. Rocks showered into the cove <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">from many places along the cliff, striking several of the hunters. Then our <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> warriors rushed in upon them and it was hard to tell one from the other. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ulape and I: stood on the cliff, and watched helplessly, afraid to use <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> the rocks we held lest we injure our own men. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Aleuts had dropped the bales of otter. They drew knives from their <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> belts and as our warriors rushed upon them the two <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">lines surged back and forth along the beach. Men fell to the sand and rose <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> to fight again. Others fell and did not get up. My <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">father was one of these.” You can also 3d animate the natural disasters that happen near the end of the book.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Speaking of missing scenes the movie left out most of the narrative from the book. The movie left out interesting parts of the book. For example, Karana in the story took care of more animals than Rontu, two birds, an otter, and Rontu-Aru, which means son of Rontu in her language. It also left out interesting parts of the book too. One example is when she met Tutok, an Aleut girl who stayed on the island for a short while, while the Aleuts hunted otter, and told each other words in their own languages. One last thing is that good parts were left out also.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">To conclude this letter even though some people wouldn’t want this classic movie to be remade, there has been a lot of classics that have been remade and are a big hit.

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