Blog #6 Film Adaptation

I am reading Cormac McCarthy's The Road, which has been adapted into a movie, but I have not seen it.  If I was hired to write a screen play for this movie, I would have to cut out a lot of the sub plot to keep the plot line of the movie moving and to keep the viewers eentertained. Through out the book (That I've read thus far) there are many scenes that involve walking and resting, dying of starvation and thirst. Though they would make good scenes for the movie, I wouldn't be able to use them excessivley, for the viewers would get bored of the same setting over and over again. I would have to place one or two scenes of walking and rest in between each scene of major signifigance to the storyline, to keep the plot rolling and keep the viewers entertained, but the majority of in between scenes would have to be removed due to time restriction.