Heroes by Robert Cormier (Book into a Film)

1. HEROES
BY DANNI MANLEY

2. HEROES BOOK
INTO A FILM
 I have chosen to create an adaptation of Heroes the book by
Robert Cormier into a film
 I have chose to make Heroes into a film because it wont work as
well if I made it into a TV series
 The book only has three main characters so it would be easy to
cast three actors
 The filing location won’t be a problem because it is set on two or
three locations
 One of the locations is a village in France and a battle filed
 The third location is French town in America. Instead of filming
in the actual town we will create a set to use

3. NARRATIVE AND
PLOT
 The story it told in the present
 However it has lots of flash backs. It has flashbacks so the audience can see and under stand
why the character is the way he is and also why he wants to carry out his mission
 The film only has one storyline, it also has a lot of subplots to build it up
 The film is about a boy called Francis who grows up in Frenchtown, his Mother and Father
has died. He lived with a woman called Mrs. Blende. He is now 18. He went to war but got his
face blown off by a grenade
 In the film he has flash backs to when he was 15 and a famous man called Larry LaSalle
moved to Frenchtown and everyone loved him
 He had a girlfriend called Nicole Reared
 When Larry came back from the war the locals threw a party for him. Larry and Nicole
stayed after the party and he raped her. Francis found out and felt guilty so he went to war to
try and get him self killed
 All he managed to to is get his face blown off
 In the present he goes to visit Nicole who now lives in New York and that’s when the story
ends

4. GENRE
 The genre of the film is a historical drama
 It is period drama because it is set in WWII
 Its a drama because it is realistic film about WWII and it is not a
fantasy
 This movie is a realistic movie about realistic events that could
have happened to a boy in WWII

5. CHARACTERS IN
THE BOOK AND FILM
 young Nicole -
 older Nicole – Keira Knightly/Gemma Arterton
 young Farces -Thomas Brodie-Sangster
 Older Francis -
 young Larry – David Tenant
 Older Larry
 Mrs Blenda – Maggie Smith/
 Arthur Rivier – Robert Patios
 Joey LeBlanc – Asa Butterfield
 Enrico Rucell
 Francis Mom -Helena Bonham Carter
 Francis Dad – Simon Pegg
 Drug store owner – Colin Firth
 Mother/Sister (teacher) – Julie Andrews
 Uncle Louis – Ben Kingly
 Married couple – Rupert Grint and Kimberly Nixon

6. SET AND
LOCATIONS
 Wreck center
 St Jude’s club
 School
 Mrs Blenders tenement
 Larry LaSalls tenement
 Nicole’s house
 Village
 Battle filled
 Street in France
 London street
 Hospital in London

7. TARGET
AUDIENCE
 The target audience are Teenagers (class E).
 This movie is mostly aimed at people who are studying the book
in school.
 I want to keep it like the book so the audience who have read the
book can visually see the emotions of what the characters go
through.
 Out side of education the film is aimed at females because it is a
female type of movie.
 The genre of the film is a historical drama
 It is period drama because it is set in WWII

8. KEY SCENES
 First key scene is when Francis and Nicole start dating
 Second key scene is when Larry rapes Nicole
 The third key scene is when Francis try's to kill him self
 Fourth key scene is when Francis goes to kill Larry

9. ETHICAL ISSUE
 One of the ethical issues that seems to stand in the way is that the
young boy at the age of fifteen is considering committing suicide
after a trustworthy man raped his girlfriend
 This might be an ethical issue because the man is seen as a hero
and a good man
 15 year old gets raped, the audience won’t see what is happening
they only hear what is happening while they are see Francis
reaction

10. FINANCE
 To create this movie I will need to have a UK budget for about £20,000,000. In the
movie I wont be using CGI
 It wont be any CGI so the movie look as real it can be
 Instead of using CGI I will use real bombs/explosions for the battle filled scenes
 I will have a set of the village made because that is regally used in the movie
 However If I find a location that looks like my interruption of the village in my
mid to save money I will use that as a location
 I will pay the three main actors £500 a day
 The other characters will be paid £250 a day
 All of the extras will be paid £50 per day
 This film will take six weeks to six months to film
 The budget will also include props, costumes, make-up/hair products, cast and
crew hire, cameras, lights, advertisements, copyright distribution ect

11. CINEMATIC IDEAS
 It is shot with modern technology
 Miss-en-scene is 1940’s style
 Flashback has old style look as if it is real footage from the war
 Like the Imitation game film

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