I mean, the first time is something which you cannot ever guess about, you know? Then you have a reaction to it, and subsequent readings, you know, are more analytical. But, you have to start with a kind of, you know, like falling in love reaction with the material. So then it just becomes, you know, a matter ofβ¦almost like a codebreaking , of breaking the thing down into a structure that seems to be still truthful, not losing the, you know, the ideas, or the content, or the feeling of the book.
And try to get it into the much more limited time frame of the movie. And the criteria is always is it truthful and is it interesting? I had no idea that the ghost band at the ghost ball actually play Ticket to Ride off the album Help! My initial response was and still is, to some extent : you need more?
Of course. Okay, so I did the page-by-page analysis. I wrote out all the significant things in the book that tie to the film. The book is loaded with characters saying and thinking numbers. But frequently enough, when you go the page number that corresponds to the thought or spoken number, you find a scene that mirrors the scene you were on.
Or someone on the other page is saying the number of the page you came from. Stuff like that. But not just Once you realize how truly ubiquitous s are in the film, it starts to make going into room seem almost redundant or like heading into the eye of the maelstrom.
But as Jack moves through the room, a lot of other jumbles go by , , , , often marking the appearances and disappearances of the various artworks in the room the lesson key appears at and disappears by , until he stops outside the bathroom door at , which is like a jumble of both room numbers.
