Adaptations to Moneyball

I think that they should show when they are first looking at Billy Beane, because it is a book about statistics and when they go and see him he strikes out and he slams his bat against the walls and benches and bends his bat then when he gets up again he uses the bent bat. This part should be in the movie because the book is just stats so some action would make it better. Another part that should be in the movie is when he is at the signing with his parents and then they can’t decide if they want him to go to college or if he should go straight to the MLB, so the scout tells him to think about it and they went home and his dad said lets arm wrestle. So they arm wrestle and Billy wins, then his dad says if you can beat your old man at arm wrestling then you can make your own decisions. This should be in the movie because it is the biggest decision he has made in life so far and he ends up deciding to turn down his full ride in football and baseball to Stanford and play in the minors which was the biggest mistake he has made. They should also keep the part in the book where Billy decides that he is going to quit the team and be a scout. This is important because Billy notices that he isn’t doing anywhere in his career in baseball so he just retires. And since he retired his wife left him because they couldn’t stand being around each other. I think that if you wanted to make the book a better movie you should take out some of the stats and have there be more baseball games that you are watching as Billy goes from game to game. I think that they should also cut the injury he has right when he is being traded because it would be pointless because the whole book is about him.

Book One Project

The book I read was The Hunger Games. I only read the book because people have been talking about it and saying how good it was, so I decided to see if it was as good as the people were saying. I think that the book was even better than I heard it was. It was the best book I have ever read.  At the beginning of the book it was kind of boring but when it hit part two it became a whole different book. The Hunger Games would keep you interested the whole time and make you want to keep reading.

I think that the hunger games should be turned into a video game. At the beginning of the game you will appear in training but you only can show one of your skills so you have to do something to impress the game makers like what Katniss “without think, I pull an arrow from my quiver and send it straight at the gamesmakers’s table. I hear shouts of alarm as people stumble back. The arrow skewers the apple in the pig’s mouth and pins it to the wall behind it” page 102. Also in the game you would be able to pick from any of the people that are in the games but you could also choose primrose and gale. Also you can choose which year of the hunger games you want to play and you can choose any of the battle fields they have played in. The players will have special moves if you get the weapon or the skill that the player you chose does the best with. Like Peeta and his camouflage. “Peeta? I whisper. Where are you? There’s no answer. Could I just have imagined? No, I’m certain it was real and really close at hand, too. I creep along the bank. Well, don’t step on me. I jump back; his voice was right under my feet.” Page 252.And going back to the game if you win the hunger games you get paid $20,000.00 and with the money you get from winning you can upgrade your character or even when you are in battle you can buy the weapon your character is good with and have it dropped down onto the playing field. I came up with getting money because it says in the book who ever wins moves into one of the huge house that were made for the winners of the games and also you win tons of money. But in the game the weapons are more advanced, there are all types of guns flame throwers and even grenades. But to get to these weapons you need to get a shovel that comes in one of the twenty-four bags and you need to find a special spot in the arena and dig deep down and then you will get to a locker and you have to use one of the knives you get in your pack and pick the lock. Also when you upgrade your player you can make it so he is good with every weapon so that no matter what weapon you get you will have a special move. But you can even design your own character our save a picture of yourself on your game system and it will even make you a character and you can play as yourself. I think that this idea would work because since the hunger game has been in the theaters it has made around 215 million dollars. Also it could help you understand the book a little better because you will know what all of the characters look like and you will also know what the area they are playing on looks like. Because when I was reading it I imagined it a lot different than it really was. This game will give the book more attention because most people love to play video games and if you are playing the game you will probably want to see what the book is like and you will read the first one and then get hooked to the rest of the hunger game books. Also the game will make a lot of money because all of the people who are hunger game fanatics will buy it and even people who like killing games will like it to.