Blog Post #4

 Shoeless Joe needs a little tweaking before it will become a good adaption, I think you will need to make the Characters a little more likeable and go more in depth in learning about them. At the moment the main character just seems a little emotionless, when he's sees ghost on his lawn, he stays calm and doesn't even wonder what is going on, he just has a conversation with a man who has been dead for many years. The only thing you can see about him is that he likes baseball and his family, and he doesn't like his religious in-laws. I think that a good choice in casting would be Brad Pitt, because who doesn't like Brad Pitt and he also seems like he could resemble Ray Kinsella. There are also some scenes that need to be cut, like when the store gets robbed. It doesn't help the plot at all, it jumps from a laid back baseball book to a hostage situation and then it just ends in an anticlimactic way, so I think that scenes like this should be cut to keep the subject simple. This book should most likely be adapted into a movie. It doesn't have the long lasting plot that could work in a TV-show, it has a short story that is perfect for a movie. This movie needs a really stereotypical sports movie sound track, it should play really inspirational music as the camera slowly zooms out from the stadium, giving the overview of the whole thing.