Story of an Hour

Blog your plans for covering title, character, setting, plot/conflict, irony, symbolism in film adaptation proposal

In the film adaptation of "Story of an Hour," the title I believe is appropriate, even in the film version because making the story into a film that lasts an hour will make sense, being that it is assumed that all of the thoughts feelings and emotions that our main character experience, likely took place in about an hour as she sat and reflected on her life and future.

The characters I believe should be played by Angelina Jolie and Tommy Lee Jones as the husband. With support from the other characters by Owen Wilson and Liv Tyler. I believe the appeal of the younger and older characters is essential...reaching across generational lines to the viewers.

This should be set in modern day West Coast....likely in L.A. California. All of which will take place in a condominium. The entire plot of this film and the conflict will ultimately be internal as the main character Liv Tyler sits and reflects on her life and future. The conflict will be played out in a series of flash backs and prophecies of her future. The beginning of the film will deal with her diagnosis of heart disease and the irony of the ending will be her dying upon discovering her husband is not dead.

Symbolism will be played off of as she observes the very things going on outside her window that will trigger her emotions, a narrator with 3rd person omniscience will only begin to narrate as we slip into a day-dream and the narrator explains the significance of the symbols.