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Kat- I haaaaaaaaate when that happens in a book-movie deal. Like, it's nice if you read the book cause you care about the characters. But to see them get offed in the movie without more than an introduction. Ahhh! The feels!
We'd probably make him his own house cup so he wouldn't feel left out. ;) :D He's a good guy. He's actually marrying one of my besties in the future. They got engaged a month ago. You might have seen her on and off here, Panda. Me and Linny made her come on and play on mene. That's how LOTR was for me forever...since it was a childhood staple. Like the characters looked and talked a certain way in my head....I had motivations for them. Then the movies happened and I accept that things changed cause Fellowship--Return of the King are amazing. |
It's only natural because of the pacing being different in a movie and book, but it can be difficult. I think sometimes movie writers make book-movies either for the audience of those who haven't read it or those who have. Very hard to get both.
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Woody: Aw, congratulations to him!! That's fantastic!
Woody and Kat: And mm, I remember reading things like Percy Jackson and then seeing the movie and being like "Mmmmnooooo thanks", but there are certainly other things where you can look at the differences between book and movie and see the reasoning behind it. [yes] While I still haven't read LotR, I did enjoy the movies and I've heard similar things from other people who have read the books. But man, some book to movie conversions are soooo bad. Eragon, Percy Jackson, City of Bones... Some conversions, though, are fantastic. Like, I really love both the book and movie of Lovely Bones despite their differences, and I actually prefer the film Fight Club to the book. |
I had the LOTR books read to me when I was quite young. The movies were in some ways my first experience with it, but there the books still colored my unconscious some.
I like the movie for Wizards of Earthsea, but I couldn't get through the books. I might try again. I agree, what the hell with Eragon. I don't know the book or movie for the other two. Guardians of Gahoole was also a terrible movie of books I enjoyed as a kid. I hear a lot of people hate on Golden Compass, but I didn't think it was a bad movie and I love the book series a lot. |
The movie Golden Compass was horrid, but the book series is great! Btw.
Ahhhh. Percy Jackson. I read a few of the books and only saw part of the movie and knew it was poop. :/ Eragon. Yup that was bad too. THey did good with The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe! So there's a plus. I loooooove the Earthsea books. Ursula LeGuin is great. They can be a bit dry at first, but over all, it's some great fantasy. |
Eragon was just bad, so bad. And with Guardians of Gahoole: I think I may have read the books as a very young child, or at least something similar with owls fighting other owls, though I don't remember much about them at all except enjoying them quite a bit. I saw the movie a while book, and I was actually pretty impressed but maybe if I'd read the books I'd feel different. [lol] And I don't really have an opinion on the Golden Compass: I had the first book read to me as a child but mum skipped over a lot of the more anti-religion stuff so I missed out quite a bit of it and just thought it was a cool story about people with animal soul companions and also polar bears, but from memory I wasn't a huge fan of the movie. That may just be personal preference, though.
Ooh yeah! The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe film was really good. [yes] |
The narnia movies were all pretty good.
The Earthsea books were dry. Probably why I couldn't read them after seeing such a great movie so many times. It's strange how they condensed it all into one movie, but it might have been doing the books a favor. In some ways the Gahoole movie wasn't bad, but it felt too kiddie. The bad guys weren't bad enough. It changed some points in the book to make people all seem nicer and they put like...seven books in one movie. |
Yah. Golden Compass as a movie was shite cause they also skipped over all the fun bits and white washed it. It was alternative universe England! That's cool. As if the reformation never happened. Me and my mom always loved the books. I read them young, yes, but it was better rereading them as an adult.
Also, I totally want a dæmon (which they pronounce so wrong in the movie), I always used to imagine what mine would be. Yes! I watch it all the time in the winter cause it's got that perfect Christmas-y feel. Alright guys! I'm offski to Bedfordshire. I'm pretty tuckered out today for some reason. Later!! Heh. If you want dry fantasy, try reading some of the old stuff like....King of Elfland's Daughter or something by Dunsany. |
Mm, I guess it may have been a little bit oversimplified as a film in retrospect. I don't remember much of the story of Gahoole, to be honest, just the nice visuals and cringing over the Australian accents whilst paradoxically also being happy to hear Australian accents. [lol]
Goodnight Woody! :D And yeah, whitewashing in movies is absolute balls and happens so often. :( |
I wanted a daeman so bad as a kid too. I thought a lot about it.
I'll pass Woody. And goodnight. that's funny logic, zea (about the accents). |
Well, yeah, I'm a bit funny about Australian accents. [lol] On the one hand when I hear them in international things it's usually being done by non-Australians and sounds really, really bogan and often starts slipping into a Kiwi accent as well, but sometimes it's nice to hear genuine Australian accents in things because it's so unusual to find any in things outside Australia. But yeah, most of the accents portrayed in movies and stuff are really quite strong and sometimes it's a little embarrassing. [lol] To be fair, though, I come from a pretty urban part of Australia where our accents are a little weaker and are kind of like the 'posh' equivalent of an Australian accent, so I'm not the best authority on this.
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That's interesting, but it's always funny how foreign accents are portrayed. They're usually overdone and usually specific to a certain region of that country.
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Yeah, it's a surreal experience nonetheless. [lol]
By the way, if you're curious this is pretty much what my accent sounds like: (warning for strong language, but it's like 100% impossible to find any Australian vids without some [roll]); it probably sounds like most Australian accents but there is a slight difference. [lol] Am I correct in remembering that you're Texan, or am I completely off? |
I like the accent though. :3
I always want to laugh at how Texans get portrayed sometimes. |
Hehe, thanks.
And yeah, I imagine that you're in much the same boat as me then when it comes to portrayal. [lol] |
and my accent is way less existent than this guy's normal one. I think. Hard to tell myself, but he sounds like he's got an accent to me. |
I actually really that accent; it's just really pleasing to listen to. :) I love listening to the little slight accents that people have, and yours sounds like it would be really lovely.
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this is what I sound like. And mostly the same phrases I use too. It's a long vid, but I enjoyed watching it. Because I'm from the big city, I don't have much of an accent at all, besides sounding American. When I was in England and France, people commented on that. Not much of a 'Texan' sound.
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Aw, that's a lovely accent! And yeah, as a foreigner I can hardly detect the Texas twang though it's definitely there. I think my accent is distinctly Australian, though a lot of my friends get mistaken for being English online, as well as a whole bunch of other different, completely unrelated regions. It's crazy how many times my friends have been mislabeled as being from somewhere other than Australia. [lol]
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haha, really? Well that's good. I do think English and Australian sound similar though.
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Yeah, they can be pretty similar, especially seeing as the Australian accent pretty much evolved from lower-class English accents, what with the convicts and all. [lol] I might even record an accent challenge later, just because.
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Yes, it's much closer to English than American accents ever were. America ran away too young in life and got muddied by ten million other dialects. We ended up weird.
an accent challenge sounds fun. |
Yeah, we're like England's bastard child. [lol] Though, nowadays you can find heaps of accents from all over so that's lovely. [yes]
And yeah, I actually recorded one just now out of boredom. [lol] If you want to listen here it is: Vocaroo | Voice message (this is the tag I did) |
Interesting analogy. But America is just the rebellious teenager. Canada was the good child who stuck around for a while.
your accent is so cute!! I died! |
Aaaaah! Thank you! >w< Normally I hate my voice, so I'm glad to hear that.
And yeah, those goodie two-shoes Canadians, always doing the right thing. [roll] By the way, I feel like I actually didn't sounds that Australian in that recording. As a foreigner, can you confirm/deny? [lol] |
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