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From: Bren MacDibble <brenmacd>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:14:58 +1000
Some things about the Narnia books were lost in translation to the movies. The British class system was a welcome loss in the adaption to modern tastes which made me prefer the movies and more importantly, prefer that my children watched the movies.
Bren.
On 18/08/2009, at 7:08 AM, Brian Kerr-Jung wrote:
> I thought "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" was beautifully
> designed and shot. Still, it left me cold. What I missed were all
> the little charms of the book, especially the dialog. The film
> dropped the discussion near the beginning with the professor about the
> nature of reality as well as the interaction near the end with the
> weepy giant and many little moments in between. Instead there was a
> lot of shouting of Hollywood one-liners with swords thrust in the air.
>
> Dialog seems like something that could transfer rather easily between
> a book and a movie, but it rarely does. Sad, considering our best
> writers are often very fine writers of dialog.
>
> Haven't bothered with "Caspian."
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Tiffany Dismuke<td.ssch at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> 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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>
>
>
> --
> Brian Jung
> http://mrchompchomp.blogspot.com
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Received on Mon 17 Aug 2009 05:14:58 PM CDT
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:14:58 +1000
Some things about the Narnia books were lost in translation to the movies. The British class system was a welcome loss in the adaption to modern tastes which made me prefer the movies and more importantly, prefer that my children watched the movies.
Bren.
On 18/08/2009, at 7:08 AM, Brian Kerr-Jung wrote:
> I thought "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" was beautifully
> designed and shot. Still, it left me cold. What I missed were all
> the little charms of the book, especially the dialog. The film
> dropped the discussion near the beginning with the professor about the
> nature of reality as well as the interaction near the end with the
> weepy giant and many little moments in between. Instead there was a
> lot of shouting of Hollywood one-liners with swords thrust in the air.
>
> Dialog seems like something that could transfer rather easily between
> a book and a movie, but it rarely does. Sad, considering our best
> writers are often very fine writers of dialog.
>
> Haven't bothered with "Caspian."
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Tiffany Dismuke<td.ssch at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> 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
>> _______________________________________________
>> CCBC-Net mailing list
>> CCBC-Net at lists.education.wisc.edu
>> Visit this link to read archives or to unsubscribe...
>> http://lists.education.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/ccbc-net
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Brian Jung
> http://mrchompchomp.blogspot.com
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