SYWTBAW Movie

[Reen]

I would fancy playing one of the incarnations of the Lone Power. I love some of the speeches of victory he does in the later books.

[Emi]

yeah, I got yelled at for doing that too... it's a lesson well learned. try to edit your post...

hmm yeah that just wouldn't be SYWTBAW if they changed any of the character's names. I hope the movie will be almost the same as the book. I'd be a little sad if they change things around like they did in the Chronicles of Narnia... Was very disappointed when I saw that.

[spyells]

If you double post you do realize you just might get yelled at. I'm only warning you beacuse I've gotten yelled at before and it isn't fun. I'm just warning you.

I hope they don't change Nita's name.

[Ash78]

it would be horrid if they changed the names. can you imagine nita as,like, jennifer...and kit as tom... and tom as paul...and carl as bill...and dair as karen...*stops...too emotional* i really hope i can find some part of the books in the movie
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edit to consolidate double post -- gf
one of my friend was trying to read LoTR and asked me about it (cause i've read it)i told her that you have to pretend your being graded on it and take in all the little details, otherwise it won't make sense... we talked about the writing style and decided to talk like that the rest of the day LOL it was soo funny...i'd see her in the hall and be like
and she stopped on the third tile to talk to her friend. with a smile she said 'i have math class now, it takes place with Mrs.Jimenez in room 18. their are 28 students in my class today, except oneis absent so their are only 27...'
she replied 'i too am going to mathematics class where we learn of math and numbers'
we didn't get any farther than than because we were gasping for air fromlaughing too hard LOL

[Dragon Writer]

i finally have the book, and i look forward to reading it as soon as i finish enough books that i checked out before it...(and some of the others i desperately want to read) and i certainly hope they don't change the names of one of the characters in sywtbaw! not that there's any real reason too, but that wouldn't necessarily stop them if it got into their heads to change it...

[Gretchen]

Yeah i was reading Stardust and i was soo annoyed that his name was TristRan. It bugged me soo much. Then i read an article about the movie and realized that it said Tristan. Even though TristRan bugged me, the fact that they changed it bugged me more. By the way, that book was amazing

[Dragon Writer]

i don't think DD would let the magic of the books be lost in translation, either...but it doesn't stop me from worrying now and then! too many authors find themselves powerless as just that happens...and it doesn't help that most of us here will watch the movies, whether or NOT they mess it up, just in case we can find some part of the book in them...

[Garrett Fitzgerald]

Kathy, in one of those links, there's a comment "Young Wizards: the TV series". The other day, I had pictures in my head of what that would look like...

...produced by Russell T Davies. :-)

[Gretchen]

wow you're right that makes a ton of sense!!! haha. I dont think DD would allow them to lose the magic of the books. Or the magic of the magic.

I actually printed those excerpts out and put them on my walls. What about them? Do you not like them?

[Kathy Li]

Yeah, I'd say put it aside for a few years. And the way you guys are describing it is exactly how it worked for me the first time.

The second time I read 'em, though--it just got better and better with every page. Everything has at least three different levels of meaning; and I don't just mean the different languages.

I remember thinking, "He's always really careful to let you know exactly where you are. And that everybody rests. And eats. He worries about the pack ponies and supply lines. He worries about how much ground they cover and in what direction every day, like it's a matter of life or death or something. Geez, he must have liked camping a lot or something..."

And then it hits me. He must have been in the infantry. Big big lightbulb goes off over my head. For an infantryman? War is all about walking and walking and walking and running and walking. And walking some more. There's a reason the book's built like that.

That's the kind of stuff I miss in the films. The spirit of the thing. If a YW movie came out that had every word and action right, but missed the spirit of the thing--what DD is trying to say that magic is for, I'd be really upset. But if DD's writing the screenplay, somehow, I really really doubt that would ever happen.

Has everybody read this? and this?

[Dragon Writer]

i read the hobit when i was still kinda young, and loved it...(and everyone loved that i managed to read it so young) without ever being told of waht came next...finally, i realized there was more to the series read it, and...UGH! i've tried it twice already! like i said, maybe the individual books are reading it...but try forcing your way through them all in one giant volume, where you're constantly faced with how much more of this you have to get through...*might try again one day.*

[Gretchen]

haha well if you're still reading TT it's gonna take you forever to reade ROTK. We were talking about the books at lunch yesterday and thos giu was like "That man tells his stories like 'Frodo took a step. Then another. He kept taking steps until he stepped on a twig. He snapped. He looked down. Then he kept taking more steps.'"

It was hysterical.

[Kaila Kirchner]

young reader is right. that guy just goes on and on and on (LOTR). I liked the hobbit and it didn't take me long to read it, but the rest of them are torture. i've been trying to read Two Towers for over a year now and i'm still not even halfway done with it. i read the first on so long ago i hardly remember what happened.

[Gretchen]

Oooh I'll try and get that one.

I really liked the LOTR books until I got to return of the king, which is the only one i bought. I loved Two Towers and once I was done I quickly started the 3rd book, only to find that it was 200 pages worth of boredom. I kept going, but it still wasnt as good as the other ones. My older sister never even finished the Hobbit.

I read those books in 5th grade so I dont really feel ripped off seeing as I dont remember and of the little details.

[Kathy Li]

Gretchen, I don't know what your budget for books is, but Stardust has more than one edition. The DC one is illustrated with a Charles Vess drawing on every page, and was the first version ever published. It is downright gorgeous.

YR, you have no taste. Actually, I felt the way that you do, once. When I was eight, I loved the Hobbit enough to try and read LotR. I slogged through the whole thing, and didn't get it.

I didn't get it through most of my teens and my twenties. Then the movies were announced, and I thought I'd give it another try, and discovered that LotR is a work of towering genius and I must reread it at least once a year.

Don't assume your opinion of a book is carved in stone. It may just be you weren't ready for it, yet. Powers know, I still await the days I'm ready for Joyce's Ulysses and Proust's (which, as a book it's hard to put a dent in has LotR beat cold).

But the LotR movies? Augh. Pain. It hurts, yess it doess, my preciouss. If you only read LotR as a grand fantasy adventure, then the movies work great. But if you read it as something with many many layers of meaning, you felt sooo ripped off. Eowyn losing her speech about how the whole "stay and guard the hearth" role for women is a bunch of crap still rankles in my feminista heart.

The YW books will also inevitably be cut for the movies. DD has already said that she's had to cut loads for the screenplay, and that it hurts. I can well believe it. Still, if they stick to DD's screenplay, I can't see how it can go wrong. The trick is, will they stick to it? Or get it rewritten by seventeen other people?