Post 2:

After completing the book and having time to dwell on my notes, I decided to finally wrap my thoughts on certain things I thought were important together.

We have already established that the book is more or less always Blue's coming of age story regardless of who the main character may be putting her own focus on whether it be the Bluebloods or just Hannah Schneider. I feel that the movie version of Special Topics should take the time to make use of certain techniques to depict the way Blue sees the world. Essentially, the story is indeed the story Blue was writing within the story Marisha Pessl, giving further reason to manipulate the way settings are depicted. I easily imagine Hannah Schneider's home (and possibly various places where Hannah is present) to be lit in a fuzzy, golden color. This unique scheme could uphold the vision of Hannah as a mysterious figure who we are never quite sure about.



I feel that often during the novel Blue's recollection of events often are that of those that seem to be exaggerated. The modern teenager is known for letting the imagination take over during moments of angst and fear thus giving way to exaggerations. I feel that not just Marisha the writer, but Blue as a character who is writing her epic should be aware as well as an adult looking back on her teenage years. The idea of manipulating the world through film technique could allow a visual motif to represent moments of exaggeration to be used. Possible ideas could include having the focus be manipulated so that the foreground or background is always out of focus during such scenes. Another idea could be akin to what Stanley Kubrick did in A Clockwork Orange where he would rearrange objects for each take of a scene to give a feeling of uneasiness.