Movies+Influenced+by+The+Catcher+in+the+Rye

When "The Catcher And The Rye" was published in 1951, teenage boys found solutions to there rebellions from the character Holden Caulfield. Seeing this, Hollywood wanted a peice of Holden for its movies. Ignoring the refusal from the author of the book, J.D. Salinger, hollywood borrowed the characters model. In doing that they created movies like "The Graduate", "Diner", "Dead Poets Society", "Rushmore", "American Beauty" and "The Royal Tenenbaums".

**J.D. Salingers letter to a Screen writer**
J.D. Salinger explains again why he wont sell the rights to the novel by saying //"I keep saying this and nobody seems to agree, but “The Catcher in the Rye” is a very novelistic novel. There are readymade “scenes” — only a fool would deny that — but, for me, the weight of the book is in the narrator’s voice, the non-stop peculiarities of it, his personal, extremely discriminating attitude to his reader-listener, his asides about gasoline rainbows in street puddles, his philosophy or way of looking at cowhide suitcases and empty toothpaste cartons – in a word, his thoughts. He can’t legitimately be separated from his own first-person technique. True, if the separation is forcibly made, there is enough material left over for something called an Exciting (or maybe just Interesting) Evening in the Theater. But I find that idea if not odious, at least odious enough to keep me from selling the rights."//