From: Julie Corsaro <juliecorsaro2>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:05:23 -0400

The film adaptation of Dick King?s Smith Babe: The Gallant Pig is at the top of my list. I haven?t read the book in a long time. However, I suspect that this is a case?perhaps, rare?where a film expands on a book in a very positive way. I think that both the set design and screenplay are spectacular. I also believe that Babe is a character for the ages?thanks to the movie.

 

I am also a fan of Danny Boyle?s film version of Frank Cottrell Boyce?s Millions (I like it better than Boyle?s Oscar winning Slumdog Millionaire). While I admit that the book does a better job of explaining some of the particulars (for instance, why the young protagonist is so obsessed with saints), I think the film (Cottrell also wrote the screenplay) captures the emotional essence of a book that--at its heart--is about grief. I think that the visuals are also compelling.

 

Even though I know that the ?it was all a dream? ending of the Wizard of Oz offends some fans of the book, I think that it?s hard to argue with the movie?s iconic status and entertainment value. When I was growing up before home videos, the annual showing of the movie was a event that caused me to get out my Easy Bake Oven and cook enough snacks to last for it?s lengthy?and magical--showing. I wonder if the book would be as popular today if it weren?t for the movie.

 

I think that kids like these movies and that these movies lead kids to the books.

 

Julie Corsaro

 





> From: sue.parsons at okstate.edu
> To: vvitallo at yahoo.com; libraryjim at embarqmail.com; td.ssch at gmail.com
> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:30:46 -0500
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> Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Picture Books to Movies
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> Like Shrek? Talk about "only a passing resemblance to the book"!
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> I wonder what everyone is feeling about the upcoming 'Cloudy with a chance of meatballs' 3-D extravaganza?
> It looks like fun but has only a passing resemblance to the book (from the trailers I have seen).
> Vicki
> Ma'ema'e Elementary School
> Honolulu
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> I rather liked "Caspian", and I think they are doing a splendid job of filming the books. I just wish that, since the books are so small compared to "Lord of the Rings", that they would stop leaving things out or rearranging them.
>
> With Caspian, the age of the Prince was a major issue, but he had to be able to kiss Susan at the end! Oh My! Have to have a love story! Plus, Aslan and Lucy never had 'the talk' where he said "even if they did not believe you, you should have followed me anyway!" That was a major omission.
>
> With "Lion", the line "He's not a TAME lion, you know" was not spoken by Tumnis at the end, but by Beaver near the beginning, and set up Aslan as more than just another 'talking beast', and set the tone for the entire conflict at the end.
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> I'm anxious as to how they will do "Dawn Treader" since Disney has pulled out -- was that the reason for the changes? To placate the Mouse? (And I don't mean Reepicheep!)
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> Jim Elliott
> N. Georgia
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> I was just having a conversation about this on Tuesday and I'm
> wondering if anyone else was as disappointed by "Prince Caspian" as I
> was. I saw "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" in the theater and
> thought it was done spectacularly. My complaints were all minor, and
> had more to do with me imagining things differently than the film
> makers.
>
> However, I was so glad that I did not waste my money to see "Prince
> Caspian" in the theater. They changed so much, particularly when the
> trees started moving. In Narnia, the trees send out their spirits. In
> Middle Earth, they move. These type of differences, the ones that seem
> to be a blatant disregard of the original text, are the ones that
> often destroy a movie for me.
>
> --
> Tiffany Dismuke
> Public Information Associate
> Steger-South Chicago Heights Library
> td.ssch at gmail.com
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