|
Donna Tartt won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
in 2014 for her novel about how the death of Theo Decker's
mother in a terrorist attack in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
shaped the rest of his life.
The plot follows Theo after that moment, both in the present and
through a series of flashbacks, as he navigates relationships
and family, the art world and the criminal underworld, amid the
grief of the loss of his mother.
The film faced the gargantuan task of translating the novel,
more than 760 pages long, into a feature-length movie.
"I could definitely feel it when you'd tell people what you were
doing," said Luke Wilson, who played Theo's deadbeat father.
"'Oh it's 'The Goldfinch'. I love that book.' Almost kind of
protectively."
Director John Crowley said he had to ignore that pressure.
"The good thing about filmmaking is that it's such a crazy, busy
job that pretty soon you get too busy to even think about those
things," he said. "You're trying make decisions based on your
intuition and to try and be true to your own sense of what was
special about the story when you read it."
(Reporting by Moira Warburton and Robert Menza. Editing by
Lincoln Feast.)
[© 2019 Thomson Reuters. All rights
reserved.] Copyright 2019 Reuters. All rights reserved. This material may not be published,
broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Thompson Reuters is solely responsible for this content.
|
|
