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From: Sally Miller <derbymiller>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:33:24 -0500
Am I the only person who doesn't know what LOTR stands for? Sally Derby
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean Cook" <jeanmcook at yahoo.com> To: <ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 11:05 AM Subject: [CCBC-Net] books in films
>I would just like to point out that a lot of the films people like that are
>faithful to the books are Walden Media films (Narnia, Bridge to Terabithia,
>Zathura (hey, I liked it), Holes, Because of Winn Dixie, Charlotte's Web).
>It is the stated mission of this studio to take award winning and classic
>children's books and produced faithful, family friendly fare. The studio
>even provides in-class kits and tools to promote discussions of the
>original books. Honestly, I will go see any film made by this studio, most
>particularly the ones with Disney, which is easy since they don't release
>too many each year. I'll admit the Seeker was a disappointment, but I
>suspect that has a lot more to do with 20th Century Fox than Walden Media.
>
> About Terabithia, the author never gives any real description of the
> mythical kingdom. It's whatever the reader imagines it to be. In fact,
> in the movie, we see three different versions of Terabithia, Leslie's,
> Jesse's, and his little sisters. If you watch carefully, the big vistas
> they show and the individual characters are all quite different. As for
> the trailers, everyone affiliated with the movie acknowledges they were a
> huge mistake. Fantasy fans went expecting LOTR and were disappointing.
> Terabithia fans didn't go because they thought it was LOTR and so missed a
> great movie.
>
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Received on Mon 12 Nov 2007 11:33:24 AM CST
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:33:24 -0500
Am I the only person who doesn't know what LOTR stands for? Sally Derby
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean Cook" <jeanmcook at yahoo.com> To: <ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 11:05 AM Subject: [CCBC-Net] books in films
>I would just like to point out that a lot of the films people like that are
>faithful to the books are Walden Media films (Narnia, Bridge to Terabithia,
>Zathura (hey, I liked it), Holes, Because of Winn Dixie, Charlotte's Web).
>It is the stated mission of this studio to take award winning and classic
>children's books and produced faithful, family friendly fare. The studio
>even provides in-class kits and tools to promote discussions of the
>original books. Honestly, I will go see any film made by this studio, most
>particularly the ones with Disney, which is easy since they don't release
>too many each year. I'll admit the Seeker was a disappointment, but I
>suspect that has a lot more to do with 20th Century Fox than Walden Media.
>
> About Terabithia, the author never gives any real description of the
> mythical kingdom. It's whatever the reader imagines it to be. In fact,
> in the movie, we see three different versions of Terabithia, Leslie's,
> Jesse's, and his little sisters. If you watch carefully, the big vistas
> they show and the individual characters are all quite different. As for
> the trailers, everyone affiliated with the movie acknowledges they were a
> huge mistake. Fantasy fans went expecting LOTR and were disappointing.
> Terabithia fans didn't go because they thought it was LOTR and so missed a
> great movie.
>
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