RE: Sandman and The Crow
November 25, 2013 at 4:41 pm
(This post was last modified: November 25, 2013 at 4:51 pm by thesummerqueen.)
I mostly hate movie adaptations for that reason. I feel like Harry Potter was slaughtered in order to fit the books into movies.
It's only my great love and respect for Peter Jackson and his writing team that made me okay with what they did to Lord of the Rings, and I felt like they actually brought Austen to sparkling life in the newest Pride & Prejudice (other people hate me for this, but I felt older versions were entirely too stiff).
I think Count of Monte Cristo should be made into a mini series as well.
I think this is something people who just like to be entertained by movies don't understand about people who have cherished a book and are horrified by what a shoddy director and script writer will do with it.
There are fundamental things in any book - things that aren't plot points or action sequences - that squeeze a person's heart and 'soul' and make those words so fucking important you didn't know what you did in life before you had read them. Things you just can't gloss over or put into the hands of the wrong actor or an inattentive director.
It's only my great love and respect for Peter Jackson and his writing team that made me okay with what they did to Lord of the Rings, and I felt like they actually brought Austen to sparkling life in the newest Pride & Prejudice (other people hate me for this, but I felt older versions were entirely too stiff).
I think Count of Monte Cristo should be made into a mini series as well.
I think this is something people who just like to be entertained by movies don't understand about people who have cherished a book and are horrified by what a shoddy director and script writer will do with it.
There are fundamental things in any book - things that aren't plot points or action sequences - that squeeze a person's heart and 'soul' and make those words so fucking important you didn't know what you did in life before you had read them. Things you just can't gloss over or put into the hands of the wrong actor or an inattentive director.
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