So, dumbness or arrogance?
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 10:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mothwingThe Seeker - The Dark is Rising.
Right.
I am still going to watch it, but MAN.
I like some of the things they've done, and I think that it will still be fun to watch it, but I fear that it will be nothing special any more, not the way the books were (not even for me, I know that my inner fangirl will never be satisfied, but what made the books special).
I am FED UP ad fucking nauseam with US film makers violating source material, ripping out a few traits of a story, pasting in a CHEESY HIGH SCHOOL FUCKING ROMANCE, and labelling it with the ORIGINAL FUCKING TITLE.
Seriously, WHY is that necessary?
Are the target audiences TOO DUMB to get stories which are not set in a FUCKING AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL and unable to develop an interest in a story which does not have a BILLION-A-PENNY, READY-MADE HIGH SCHOOL FUCKING ROMANCE in it ("Can't even work out how to talk to a girl", my ASS)?
The people who, like me, have no clue at all as to why things have been changed call these, "necessary changes", and answer the question WHY THEY WERE FUCKING NECESSARY with some mumbled, inconclusive sentences about the "different medium" and "the constraints of film-making".
BullSHIT.
I guess this is really due to a fear that the film will be rejected by the target audience (who are these incredibly limited, dumb people? Do they really exist?) if it does not include a lot of things which are not too threateningly innovative (as though the effing series itself was in the first place...!) - or an IMMENSE FUCKING HYBRIS that suggests to the film-makers that they can change everything that strikes them as un-American, even if the original author, who was living in the US herself at that point, wrote it differently. I vote for the latter, and that is just TOO FUCKING SAD to take it.
This used to be my favourite fantasy series when I was eleven. I loved these books, loved, loved them, with an intensity which strikes me as curious today, because they were not that great, and I did not even like the characters that much even then - still. In my memory, these books have an incredible charm that was due to something in the setting, due to the snowy Wiltshire woods, due to the Burrow-like British house, and I fear that the charm they had will be lost invariably if they are ripped out and then pasted into this cheesy, plasticky background.
It just DOES NOT BELONG THERE.
Seriously, WHY is that necessary?
Are the target audiences TOO DUMB to get stories which are not set in a FUCKING AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL and unable to develop an interest in a story which does not have a BILLION-A-PENNY, READY-MADE HIGH SCHOOL FUCKING ROMANCE in it ("Can't even work out how to talk to a girl", my ASS)?
The people who, like me, have no clue at all as to why things have been changed call these, "necessary changes", and answer the question WHY THEY WERE FUCKING NECESSARY with some mumbled, inconclusive sentences about the "different medium" and "the constraints of film-making".
BullSHIT.
I guess this is really due to a fear that the film will be rejected by the target audience (who are these incredibly limited, dumb people? Do they really exist?) if it does not include a lot of things which are not too threateningly innovative (as though the effing series itself was in the first place...!) - or an IMMENSE FUCKING HYBRIS that suggests to the film-makers that they can change everything that strikes them as un-American, even if the original author, who was living in the US herself at that point, wrote it differently. I vote for the latter, and that is just TOO FUCKING SAD to take it.
This used to be my favourite fantasy series when I was eleven. I loved these books, loved, loved them, with an intensity which strikes me as curious today, because they were not that great, and I did not even like the characters that much even then - still. In my memory, these books have an incredible charm that was due to something in the setting, due to the snowy Wiltshire woods, due to the Burrow-like British house, and I fear that the charm they had will be lost invariably if they are ripped out and then pasted into this cheesy, plasticky background.
It just DOES NOT BELONG THERE.
Right.
I am still going to watch it, but MAN.
I like some of the things they've done, and I think that it will still be fun to watch it, but I fear that it will be nothing special any more, not the way the books were (not even for me, I know that my inner fangirl will never be satisfied, but what made the books special).
