hooo.

[kaigou]

Kifed this link from Tiercel, who had it posted awhile back but I'd never followed it...damn, I should've. You want Narnia? You want Disney doing Narnia? Here's your response, babe.

Cripes, they're doing a live-action version of Charlotte's Web...with Julia Roberts as Charlotte? Yegawdz.

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[ravensilver.livejournal.com]

That meant to watch the movies, I have to take a moment at times to repeat: this is Jackson's LotR, not Tolkein's. Five or six times, and I can handle it. But there are some points I just can't (like Faramir's twistedness) and I do my best to just block out the trauma. Alcohol seems to work, at least temporarily...

::hands you glass of red wine::

I had lots of problems with Jackson's interpretation of LotR, his choice of actors being one of them, his changing of parts of the story another. It just clashes horribly with my own visions of the books - which I re-read on an average of once a year, at least. Like, one of the things I couldn't get past was Aragorn - lanky hair, perpetually dirty fingernails, scraggly beard? This wasn't *my* Aragorn. Where was he of the noble brow, of the "looks foul but feels fair", of the descendant of Kings? Certainly not what I saw on screen.

I often read a book and think: this would be great as a movie! Then I go back and reconsider... no. I really don't want to see another person's vision of this great book - not only another vision, but one totally inconsistant with what the book is trying to convey.

I'm hoping that your books will *never* be turned into a movie - the movie in my head is good enough for me... ^^

[kaigou.livejournal.com]

I think the one actor that really, truly nailed it for me (and made the rest worthwhile) was Sam Gamgee. After that, it was Gandalf, who had both the rather scary element but at the same time, an immensely approachable air of conspiratorial absentmindedness, a flavor of characterization that stayed with me through the years (as I read LotR in fourth grade, and didn't reread until after the movies came out). Tolkein wasn't the best at characterization, so what he does have is very subtle, and it meant that characterizations had to be subtle, too, for it to strike true (for me). After those two, it'd be Pippin and Merry, though they had less to work with and were stuck in teh sidekick/comic relief.

As for my books, I dunno. I suppose if ever there were a possibility, I'd ask to write something entirely new, just for the screen, as a scriptwriter. Because at least then it'd be a) a story not seen before, so audiences aren't going, we know what happens next! and b) if it's screwed up, it doesn't impact the stories that already stand. That's my current idea of a compromise...err, assuming anyone ever did try to option a novel. Heh.

[sharona1x2.livejournal.com]

Like, one of the things I couldn't get past was Aragorn - lanky hair, perpetually dirty fingernails, scraggly beard? This wasn't *my* Aragorn.

Thank you for saying that. I never made it past the first movie. I didn't care for some of the casting, either, particularly Aragorn.

[ravensilver.livejournal.com]

He didn't even have clean fingernails when they were in Rivendell.

::shudders::

I mean, I know that living off the land is rough... but somehow he never got beyond... seedy.

I agree with Sol that the casting for Sam Gamgee was good and I did enjoy Gandalf. But it pretty much stopped there.

I can enjoy the movies if I put myself into the right mind-frame before-hand: this is not LotR, this is a nice fantasy series...