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Feb. 4th, 2009 04:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
So are they intending to make every single book I read as a child into a film? I mean, why would they do that? Why?
This time I am referring to Moonacre, but it applies to so many other things too. Shall we list them? His Dark Materials, the Dark is Rising, Narnia...
No, we shouldn't list them, it gets too annoying. And I get too sad.
This time I am referring to Moonacre, but it applies to so many other things too. Shall we list them? His Dark Materials, the Dark is Rising, Narnia...
No, we shouldn't list them, it gets too annoying. And I get too sad.
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Date: 2009-02-04 05:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-04 05:20 pm (UTC)I just watched the trailer for the Moonacre film and it looks too shiny. The colours are bright and its somehow too modern, despite being set in some fantasy past-date. I have no idea how faithfully they've followed the plot, but even if every word of dialogue is correct it looks wrong.
Okay, rant over.
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Date: 2009-02-04 05:29 pm (UTC)I think it's a pity that animations (which aren't all cutesy and disneyfied) aren't made in the west- I think a lot of these would work better that way- sort of a western version of Miyazaki- when things can remain not quite real if you know what I mean.
I can comfort myself with the fact that they've never done Gormenghast at the very least- or the Jungle Book (because the Disney version doesn't count).
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Date: 2009-02-04 05:51 pm (UTC)The LOTR films, although of course they had problems, I can forgive almost anything because of the love and attention that went into making them. They got the spirit right, even if they did change things. And they are just stunningly beautiful.
The BBC did do Gormenghast. It's actually pretty good. You could risk watching it (It's just books one and two).
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Date: 2009-02-04 06:02 pm (UTC)Yeah I've always been looking for Gormenghast to watch, I do generally like the BBC's adaptations.
One of my professors (Patrick Curry) has written a number of books on Tolkien and so I've had every single weakness of the movies pointed out to me which rather dampens the enjoyment for me- although FOTR remains one of my favorite films of all time (I went to see it 5 times at the cinema).
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Date: 2009-02-04 06:33 pm (UTC)Good luck finding it. It's on DVD now and probably quite cheap.
Ah. Yes, that would be annoying. I point out things myself, but sometimes get annoyed if other people do... lol!
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Date: 2009-02-04 08:06 pm (UTC)I never read Moonacre. Is it worth reading or should I just ignore the whole thing?
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Date: 2009-02-04 08:10 pm (UTC)(on which note, don't re-read Tamora Pierce. They aren't as good as you remember)
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Date: 2009-02-04 10:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-04 09:09 pm (UTC)Enid Blyton? Doubt it.
Norah of Billabong would make BRILLIANT movies, actually, but again, I doubt it... sigh..
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Date: 2009-02-04 09:18 pm (UTC)I apparently (I don't remember this) announced to my parents that I wasn't going to read any more Famous Five books because the girls never got to do anything.
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Date: 2009-02-04 09:19 pm (UTC)