It's What I Do Analysis

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The memoir "It's what I Do: A photographer's Life of Love and War", by war photographer, Lynsey Addario is going to be adapted into a movie. According to TIME, the film right now belongs to Warner Bros, with Jennifer Lawrence to play Lynsey Addario and Steven Speilberg to direct the film. In an article by Nolan Feeny, Addario states, "I wanted [to work with] people with integrity like Warner's and Andrew Lazar, people who will honor my vision and honor the passion that I brought to my work and bring that to their work". In other words, Addario asserts when making her memoir into a movie, she wants the people to be passionate just as she was, to have integrity and finally to state the truth with no lies of what really happened in the life she has experienced and has written …show more content…

Many others would believe instead when making this into a film would be better to have the film focused in its entirely on action scenes and less on character development. Action in movies usually makes a film more exciting and entertaining. People, in general, will be expecting action in this film of a war photographer. When then adding action into a film one must see that sometimes people add events that didn't happen in the book. Isaac Guzmán writes in an article from TIME about American Sniper from adapting it from the memoir of one Chris Kyle. He interviews Clint Eastwood in one section, “I guess you could call it a war film, because it's about the war," Eastwood says. "But really it's about relationships and the obstacles people have to overcome when they're involved in the service". Like Addario's memoir, it's about war so the action would play a part ultimately, but what one should focus on is after seeing all that action what is the film trying to convey to the viewers watching this movie, so the action is a necessity for the

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