tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21301089.post2476802972953934962..comments2024-03-18T09:53:12.654-04:00Comments on MotherReader: Alice in WonderlandMotherReaderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11274509991340797264noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21301089.post-88946593793435090032010-03-17T06:40:57.516-04:002010-03-17T06:40:57.516-04:00Hey, I'm trying to put together a list of blog...Hey, I'm trying to put together a list of bloggers who concentrate on books for middle school boys. Looking back at the participants in your reading challenges, so many are women and girls. Do you know of any? Please comment on my blog if you do. Thanks!Ms. Yinglinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17805324364289597178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21301089.post-69085038323494691072010-03-16T08:21:07.229-04:002010-03-16T08:21:07.229-04:00Well, hey! A PapaBook post!
Wow - I want to talk ...Well, hey! A PapaBook post!<br /><br />Wow - I want to talk about the Sherlock Holmes because I'm terrified to see it -- I fear I will REALLY HATE IT.<br /><br />Convince me, please? Because I pretty much <i>want</i> to be convinced by something other than the presence of Robert Downey Jr. I would like to think that I'm not shallow enough to watch a movie just because he's in it. Not that you needed to know that.<br /><br />Alice is just opening here - and yes, I'm one of those literary people everyone loathes -- I hate film adaptations of books - they suck the life from the text <i>every single time</i>, as if the director didn't even read the freaking book, and I swear they don't, nine times out of ten, and <i>what, then, is the point???</i> -- but knowing you're actually Film Guy and all, I am TRYING to be fair. You're right. Film is simply another medium to translate the text; once the book leaves the author and crosses into the world of the reader, it changes from the way the author envisioned it anyway. Everyone adds their own interpretation. And certainly Weird Burton goes really well with Opium Dream Carroll.<br /><br />But, PLEASE: can film people at least TRY to occasionally read the books? I'm just sayin'<br /><br />As to that other series adaptation: Have only seen the trailers, and okay: Holmes was a pugilist and we know all about his martial arts and crazy hand-to-hand combat. It's just disturbing for we booknerds to see him so <i>physical</i> when sleuthing for him was nine and nine/tenths mental. Holmes spent a lot of time sitting still, thinking. But, I guess that doesn't make good film, huh?<br /><br />*sigh*<br />Convince me...tanita✿davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01671822274852087499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21301089.post-81861588665276819272010-03-15T23:04:08.031-04:002010-03-15T23:04:08.031-04:00How many times must I comment in order to score th...How many times must I comment in order to score the hinted-at discussion of Richie's <i>Sherlock Holmes</i>? Because I will DO it. I adored that interpretation. Seriously.<br /><br />Nice point about whether a director is supposed to bring a book to life (within the writer's vision), or whether good film comes from material that suits the director's vision. I think that, film-wise, I agree with the latter point. I'd have to say that I think that <i>Sweeney Todd</i> was right up Burton's alley, material-wise, which is why it worked (in its own blood-bespattered way). I still have to go see <i>Alice</i> - probably this weekend - but I agree that Carroll's strangeness seems a good companion for Burton's strangeness, and that it seems as if they'd suit one another. <br /><br />And yes, please, to the <i>Sherlock Holmes</i> discussion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com