The film is based on a novel by writer Jonathan Safran Foer . The idea of making this novel into a film was not a hot idea between Stephen David Daldry and producer Scott Rudin . As early as 2005, the year the novel was published, Dedley had taken a fancy to this novel. By the time the filming started in March 2011, Stephen David Daldry had been working on this film for 6 years. As a director who has made the best-selling novels "The Hours" and "Readers" into famous movies, Dadley naturally understands how important it is to adapt "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" into an excellent screenplay. But limited to the triviality of the novel's narrative and the graceful language, he had to find a fairly reliable screenwriter to adapt the script in order to create a good story for the film without damaging the texture of the original novel. In order to achieve this goal, Stephen David Daldry hired the heavyweight screenwriter Eric Roth of "Forrest Gump" and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" to write the script.
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Extended Reading
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close quotes
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Oskar Schell: It's just a box! An empty box!
Linda Schell: I know it's an empty box! I know this. But I did it for me, and I did it for you so we can at least try and say goodbye to him. Because he's gone, Oskar, he's gone and he's not coming back. Never. I don't know why a man flew a plane into a building. I don't know why my husband is dead. But no matter how hard you try, Oskar, it's never gonna make sense because it doesn't. It doesn't... make... sense!
Oskar Schell: Fukozowa you! You don't know anything!
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[first lines]
Oskar Schell: There are more people alive now than have died in all of human history, but the number of dead people is increasing. One day, there isn't going to be any room to bury anyone anymore. So, what about skyscrapers for dead people, that are built down. They could be underneath the skyscrapers for living people, that are built up. We could bury people 100 floors down. And a whole dead world could be underneath the living one.