The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit.

Bringing a book to life through the big screen is a great achievement for some authors. Yet, sometimes authors are offended when the interpretation of this book that they took so much time into writing, is so far off from their main vision for the book. It gets chopped up and glamorized Hollywood style into something that would sell. True fans of the books likewise become frustrated with how the movie producers just got it all wrong. When I see certain films that were adapted from a book that I have read I think I automatically set it up as failing if I don't see things like I imagined them within the book. Yet, with a book there can be so many visual interpretations of how the characters look, their voices, and the settings around them. By now I assume that many of my fellow peers are also reading books that lack picture references to aid us and that the author only leaves us with a description that still is vague enough for our imagination to run rampant.
The book series Uglies by Scott Westerfeld is a series that I picked up awhile ago. It is about a post-apocalyptic sort of sci-fi world where there are extreme measures taken to make sure they don't end up like the rusties (who I assume represent us). In the book the rusties are described as superficial/ irrationally emotional people. So the operation to make people pretty on their 16th b-day is a way to end these jealous thoughts that used to turn into full out wars or personal crimes. I don't want to give too much away. The concept may seem juvenile, but Westerfeld's writing style is intriguing and he carries much depth behind his words. Anyways, at least the first book, Uglies has been picked up for a potential movie production and since I have read the books, I will be extremely disappointed if they botch this up. Even if it isn't completely how I envisioned it, I still don't want to see it "whored" out, where the profits are more important than the underlying issues the book seems to get at. I wonder if those that help make the movie version even ask actual readers how they envisioned what characters looked like and whatnot; I would hope they would. I hope this movie proposition actually gets going, because even if I get disappointed when certain things are different or cut from the book, I still enjoy seeing the characters come to life. The author of books that you love make you grow with the protagonist and, if they're really good at making them seem believable, you feel for them at a real emotional level if something bad happens to them. So when they are on screen there's already this connection you established with them, and even though you know what happens at the end to them, you still hope that everything will turn out alright.