#8. Time, Time, Time Again, Younger Now Than We Were Before

What scene in the novel would lend itself well to film and why?

A fun scene to produce into film is the blurb about how Billy Pilgrim and his peers had to work in a factory that produced malt syrup. Billy actually revisted this memory of Dresden during a time of unconsciousness, so it can be inferred that he was time-travelling again. Film is the most effective way of producing the feel of a protagonist experiencing a dreamy, hazy, other-world.
This part of the novel was written in an amusing, nostalgic kinda way. The narrator seemed to miss the taste of the malt syrup, and tried to decribe it in a way that could also be decribed via film. A novel leads much to the imagination, whereas with film there is visual aid. A visual of the malt syrup would evoke the audience's taste buds to a higher degree.
The comedic aspect of the paragraphs was how child-like the workers acted. Although they were supposed to be working dilligently in the factory, they secretly spooned the malt syrup. Vonnegut details that spoons were hidden all over the factory in radiators and rafters. This sentence made me chuckle. It reminded me of how children act when they try to hide some petty "crime". I don't know what malt syrup tastes like, but I can assume that it actually does taste good, though it is possible that Billy only thought it tasted euphoric because of the lack of substantial food.

Yum yum.

In my head, this is how the scene runs:

-The screen is a haze; a tik-tok noise plays as background music, this music merges with factory sounds (implies time-travelling)
-Reveal a tablespoon that is thrust into a vat of a thin honey substance, turned round and round and re-emerges like a gooey lollipop
-This is plopped into a human's mouth; zoom out; it is Billy Pilgrim's pleasured face
-Suddenly, the workers hear someone else coming; suspenseful music plays
-A person of authority is auditing the factory
-The factory workers now appear to be hard at work
-As soon as the manager figure leaves, the workers simultaneously take their spoons from their hiding places and spoon some syrup on the sly
-The sound of footsteps play again
- Billy Pilgrim sees Edgar Derby through a factory window wanting some syrup, and quickly shoves a spoonful into his gaping mouth; Edgar's surpised face would be worth a thousand words
- Billy hides the spoon
-The workers spring up, immediately hide the spoons, and proceed with sweeping the floor or cleaning lavatories (or whatever else they were doing)

Ta-da.