carlo.comments: carlo.log → Feb 10th 2004, 18:54 GMT
ekoostik
· 5 years ago
[Quote] But I'm worried what Hollywood will screw it up [Quote]
*gasp* How could you think such a thing?
I mean, look a the shining success of Wing Commander, Starship Troopers, etc.!
No need to worry.
=/ yeah, it's frightening.
Morn
· 5 years ago
Wolfgang Petersen is directing. So much for that. :P
Xyleth
· 5 years ago
I just orderd the entire series from Amazon the other day. Figured it was about time I finally read these books everyone raves about.
Xyleth
· 5 years ago
I just orderd the entire series from Amazon the other day. Figured it was about time I finally read these books everyone raves about.
frostedlexicharm
· 5 years ago
hool was telling me about this a while ago, and how they weren't going to cast many 'minorities' , as it wouldn't 'sell well' to american audiences.
i cried.
i know, there will always be differences in a director's interpretation and the way the author intended scenes to go...some are to move plot forward (removing tom bombadil from LoTR, for instance), some are to make a shot possible/plausible (remember, cgi is good and all, but is costly and if crappily done people will walk out laughing), and some changes are made because the director wants to sell the movie (added in sex, or violence, for instance).
i always cringe when i hear that someone is making a movie 'based' on a book.
enid
· 5 years ago
Why worry?
So some idiot in Hollywood gets paid millions to completely screw up a book you love. The book's still there.
Nothing has changed.
The worst case I can see is someone else fails to enjoy the book because they had the story stuffed for them by watching the film first. And if anyone is stupid enough to base their opinions on a film they deserve to miss out.
So what?
enid
· 5 years ago
Edit: Double Post
Edited on Feb 11th 2004, 11:35 by enid
Spam
· 5 years ago
Part of why LOTR translated so well to the big screen is that so much of the books was devoted to describing the world. Where Tolkien spent 20 pages describing the lay of the land, the colors of the foliage, the sights in the distance, etc., Peter Jackson could just put in a ten-second shot of it.
The Ender's Game books are much heavier on plot movement and dialogue, so there's going to be lots and lots of stuff that doesn't make it in.
Zhaneel
· 5 years ago
Re: No minorities.
That doesn't really surprise me too much. The reasoning does, but IIRC the books were set in America. A future America, where the diversity has not been that great. OTOH, from Ender's Shadow, I do believe that we see some European minorities (French, German) but not any "of color" minorities. It might be how Card intended the world to be portrayed.
Zhaneel
Carlo Zottmann
· 5 years ago
Actually I think the books were rather "color-blind".
frostedlexicharm
· 5 years ago
the way i read the books, the majority of people were 'of color'...did i read it wrong?
All Comments
I mean, look a the shining success of Wing Commander, Starship Troopers, etc.!
No need to worry.
=/ yeah, it's frightening.
i cried.
i know, there will always be differences in a director's interpretation and the way the author intended scenes to go...some are to move plot forward (removing tom bombadil from LoTR, for instance), some are to make a shot possible/plausible (remember, cgi is good and all, but is costly and if crappily done people will walk out laughing), and some changes are made because the director wants to sell the movie (added in sex, or violence, for instance).
i always cringe when i hear that someone is making a movie 'based' on a book.
So some idiot in Hollywood gets paid millions to completely screw up a book you love. The book's still there.
Nothing has changed.
The worst case I can see is someone else fails to enjoy the book because they had the story stuffed for them by watching the film first. And if anyone is stupid enough to base their opinions on a film they deserve to miss out.
So what?
Edited on Feb 11th 2004, 11:35 by enid
The Ender's Game books are much heavier on plot movement and dialogue, so there's going to be lots and lots of stuff that doesn't make it in.
That doesn't really surprise me too much. The reasoning does, but IIRC the books were set in America. A future America, where the diversity has not been that great. OTOH, from Ender's Shadow, I do believe that we see some European minorities (French, German) but not any "of color" minorities. It might be how Card intended the world to be portrayed.
Zhaneel