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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[atpolittlebit.livejournal.com]

I have to admit that for the most part I liked the LoTR movie trilogy. Not nearly as well as I liked the actual trilogy, but differently. Even though they took out one of my absolute favorite sections, the Scouring of the Shire and all that it meant to the overall story, but I could understand that in visual story-telling to have that much story coming after the Big Climactic scenes, as opposed to the light wrapping up that was done, makes sense. Besides which, I knew how it really went. Heh.

But there was one scene that would only have taken a minute on-screen that I would happily have traded for many other 60-second bits, and that would be one of Denethor with a palantir.
Otherwise he comes off as totally demented, rather than a tool of Sauron.

[kaigou.livejournal.com]

There are a lot of things in movies that change, that we don't have to decide on as writers: this two-second scene versus that one, that sort of thing. Then again, writers don't really control the pictures in the reader's head, and we can describe a character but if you got theh impression that so-and-so is blond, you're probably always going to think that, thank you, the writer can shut up now. It does happen. Just the way we perceive information and picture it.

In a movie, it's so much more controlled. Ah, well, so much less room for the imagination! I think the greatest damage (to me) of LotR (while it did have positives, like making people read the book) is the same damage Rowling said she was worried about with the HP movies: that, from now on, people won't see their Harry Potter or Frodo or whomever, but the actor on the screen. It's very, very hard to overcome that visual.

This is part of the reason I would never see the Cooper series as a movie. More than jsut about any other series, that one has such powerful imagery for me that I don't want someone else mucking about in my visual repetoire and turning Will into some snot-nosed American boy with a cowlick, or turning Jane into a strong-willed modern tomboy, when she really is a girl, and really does do girly things (while also being strong-willed, at the same time).

Actually, the only demented part that did better on second showing was Galadriel's temper tantrum. Seeing it again, it wasn't quite as jarring...then again, I saw it again after being exposed to the truly jarring moment of Faramir trying to take the ring. O.O