So just recently, my English teacher assigned us a book report for this semester that seemed quite different from our other past book reports. We were all supposed to choose a book that had NOT been developed into a movie. Of course I started geeking out(unlike my other classmates)and went straight home grabbed my iPad and scrolled my list of books that I read already and looked for the ones that hadn’t been interpreted into a blockbuster film.( I wrote to Steven Spielberg and if you don’t know who he is[i doubt that you do]he is like THE BEST DIRECTOR EVER AND IS ONE OF MY IDOLS: Heres a picture:

 

So awesome oh my gods. Anyway back to the post)

Of course, if you know me well enough, THAT LIST OF BOOKS IS EXTREMELY LONG. And I started that what, a year ago probably. My eyes lingered on the title of one of my favorite trilogy ever- Across the Universe by Beth Revis. I instantly start my eight inch by eight inch poster and finish the pretend letter i had to write about why this movie should be produced. Remember its PRETEND. Anyway this is a very short letter in my opinion but I showed it too my teacher and my teacher liked it so it was all good.

Oh my god.

I just realized.

this report.

is due

in

two

months.

What the heck?!

Wellp that was disappointing, but anyway read on and yeah. Whatever. Dont judge me. Plz.

Dear Mr. Spielberg,

Recently I have started reading many sci-fi novels that seem to have a vibe and feel that truly encapsulated me into the story. Of course I myself(when I capture the spare time)enjoy reading many books but tend to have a bit of trouble picturing such convoluted situations in my mind do to the many details that seem to yet be the key to understanding either the story, the characters, and or the setting.

Recently(from a close friend’s eager suggestion, and from my own willingness)I bought the science fiction/drama series Across the Universe. This trilogy truly made me understand the importance of truth, sacrifice, and of course keeping a steady state of mind and composure when in a situation that may or may not affect the nearing future. The author Beth Revis wrote the emotions of the two astounding characters Amy and Elder, separating both their point of views in alternating chapters in the book.

Hundreds of years in the future, scientists and engineers built a massive ship by the name of Godspeed to go into deep space to a earth-like planet. On board are over 100 settlers from earth who were willing to be frozen into a capsule and put to sleep for three hundred years so they can awake to be greeted by the new planet they are to soon discover. The population of the cryogenically frozen span from doctors to scientists. Essential people needed when discovering the new planet(to study specimens, in case of finding other life and in the need to fight or if sudden death occurs and the cause of the death thus the need to investigate it, etc).

Amy Martin, seventeen year-old daughter of a military officer(her father) and a bio scientist(her mother)decides to leave her life behind on earth and go aboard the ship so she can stay with her parents though he parents let her decision hers and hers only. She is leaving behind her friends, her love, and any chance of every having a normal life(as well as other elements she starts to miss later in the story).But Amy wakes up early a few hundred years without knowing how or why. She finds herself amongst a  utopian like society, the people born on the ship over the generations. Soon she meets Elder. The ships future leader and the only other teenager on board. Amy resents being in a ship and yearns for a chance to be released, to feel normal again. She and Elder are in a race against time as they must solve a murder mystery and save the ship that they are aboard which is housing more than six hundred citizens, and prevent it from breaking down a third through the journey in space. But Elder is keeping a deadly secret from Amy that could threaten her future, as well as corrupt the close relationship Elder built with Amy. But there’s something both teenagers don’t know about the ship that they are currently aboard. A secret only the affiliation supporting this degenerating ship seems to know but for Amy and Elder to soon find out.

I think this would be a movie worth filming because it shows the true struggle when someone sacrifices so many things just for one chance. Almost everything hidden from the readers in the start of the book are revealed spontaneously close to the closing of the first book and the starting of the second one. It shows the growing relationship between two teenagers from completely different worlds-literally. Amy learns to finally accept the fact that this is what she needs to get used to, while in the meantime Elder already has though he is still realizing his emotional awareness of his newfound partner in both the mysteries they must uncover-and life.

I hope you take this story into consideration and work for the film because this is truly a story that should be portrayed in the form of a motion picture.

 

Sincerely,

 

Kanmani Harivenkatesh

So, um, yeah. That basically it so uhh. Bye.