#Rented book and dropped class amazon movie
He considers the book to be the "greatest novel ever written," and considers it his "magnum opus," admitting, "I can’t imagine writing anything else." Amazingly enough, he's also stated that his "real objective is that the book be made into a movie," which he believed would be "an instant hit," adding, "If the movie is made and made well I don't care if nobody but the movie producer reads the book." Synopsis Introduction He's explained that the book was meant to answer the question: "What would a good girl, Catholic or something else, do with limitless power?" Theresa was meant to be "a heroic Catholic main character." He's likewise said that he wanted Theresa to be "an example of a good person," and to serve as a character who would "edify young people and help them reach their potential." Norman also admitted to not doing any research in writing the story, save for "the amount of gold in Fort Knox, the tectonic source of Antarctica, and the density of xenon." But why does a robotic HAL get here in our time rather than a billion years ago? HAL then became a natural phenomenon that came to Earth “before the dinosaurs” as Theresa says and merged with animals until it saw Theresa’s pregnant mother raking leaves in the back yard. Later, I rejected the alien idea because I don’t believe aliens will ever visit us because of the enormous distances involved. Now Theresa would use the power given her by HAL as she calls him to right wrongs in the world. Norman "spent years editing Empress Theresa in head before wrote down a single word," and "could see it as if I was watching a movie." He said in an interview, "I began writing down words on paper, quickly switching to the computer, but the whole story was already in my head." He later changed aspects of the story to remove the revenge plot: Soon I thought few people could relate to an Olympic figure skater and made Theresa somebody in an ordinary walk of life, maybe a Wal-Mart cashier, who had suffered a wrong from somebody. Then I had an alien give Theresa power to seek revenge. Not believing in psychokinesis I threw that idea out too. Later, Harding, now called Theresa, had psychokinetic powers and used them to get revenge on her accusers. Then I thought a story should concentrate on the girl and threw out the male. But I don’t believe in mind reading and threw out that element. I thought how interesting it would be if a man could read minds, could prove that he could, and then revealed that Harding was innocent. It was never proved that Harding knew about the plan to whack Kerrigan’s leg before it happened. Norman said the idea for the novel "came entirely out of head." Amazingly enough, he accredits the initial inspiration to the attack on Olympic skater Nancy Kerrigan:īeing in between jobs and having plenty of time I became interested in the Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan figure skating scandal of the 1994 Olympics. This would put the starting year of writing Empress Theresa around 2009. Elsewhere, Norman said that eighteen years ago he had "the kernel of an idea" for the book in 1994, but he "actually started writing it" three years ago. At one point, he claimed to have "spent 19 years writing" the book, while at another time he said it was "over a twenty year period." On Facebook, he said that he began writing it in 1974. Conflicting accounts have been given by Norman Boutin about how much time he spent on Empress Theresa.
0 kommentar(er)
