A Perfect Day for Bananafish

Filmed on a 16mm ARRIFLEX BL mirror reflex camera with electric drive. Edited using Final Cut Pro and Avid Symphony Nitris. Sound recorded on a DAT. Script based on a short story by J.D. Salinger.

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Film & Animation

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• Perfect
• Day
• for
• Bananafish
• 16mm
• Arriflex
• BL
• Short
• Film
• J.D.
• Salinger
• Nine
• Stories

[Rattlehead21345]

you should of brought her out on the water with the floaty. and aim towards the horizon, where the water came up to your waist/chest.

[TheRocheification]

@Rattlehead21345 I totally agree, that would have been a sweet shot, but I wasn't about to bring a 16mm ARRIFLEX BL in the water.

[vantaxel]

Uh, please read the book! Sybil was three years old. J.D. is rolling over in his grave with this, perhaps? You have taken artistic license too far. Seymour was a suicidal war veteran who had P.T.S.D. He was not a child sex predator.

[TheRocheification]

@vantaxel I have read the story, and if you think this adaptation implies undertones of pedophilia more predominantly then in the story, perhaps you should re-read it yourself. Not every scene is exactly the way Salinger wrote it but that's because of production problems. It was extremely hard to cast a 3 year old in this role. We had to remove certain lines that were questionably more sexual between Seymour and Cybil, for example when Seymour grabs her foot and says "not in my face baby".

[christianchopin]

My honest opinion... this was directed very well. Awesome opening and angles and set and all are good. That being said, the acting was so bad I couldn't get past the first couple minutes. I mean like REALLY REALLY REALLY bad. I'm a writer and I collaborate with directors all the time and if there's one thing I can't stand it's a good adaptation and talented directing ruined by bad actors.

[TheRocheification]

@christianchopin Thank you for your kind comments. However, as the director I have to take responsibility for my actors inadequacies. An actor's performance is a direct reflection of the director's competence. With that being said, the woman who was supposed to play Muriel did not show up the day of the shoot so my DP stepped in to fill the role and I operated the camera. And found it extremely difficult to direct and film simultaneously considering the director and DP look at different aspects.

[pingguo2]

Do realize this is illegal, and the lighting is just wrong.

[laptitepucemimi]

I actually love the end!

[liveecarbme]

In all honesty upon first reading it I though it was a cautionary tale about pedophilia too...but wow, it was WAAAAY more disturbing, haunting and real. Reading "Seymour Glass/ Raise High the Roof Beams Carpetners"...as well as "Franny and Zooey" gives the entire saga a very odd feeling. A prevailing theory is that Wes Anderson's The Royal Tennenbaums is a film adapt of Franny and Zooey. Very cool.

[jimfarrowlove]

While the acting was a touch weak - particulalry the wife - this is about as good an adaptation of the story as I can imagine. You've created the best J.D. Salinger story on film. This took me by surprise. I didn't expect it to be so well done.

[cromagmax]

sucks



[thatdarnseaweed]

This is so bad i can't get past the first 2 minutes.

[crazyox100]

@edgeofthewoods all movie base on a story is not all way the same.

[edgeofthewoods]

Why is Sybil ten and a half? She was less than five in the story.

[edgeofthewoods]

First couple lines from Miss Muriel were very forced and did not sound real at all. Hating the mother. She sounds like she's reading from a script.

[janie3094]

@JustWantMyClip2 the bathing suit? I noticed too. this isn't bad, though.