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The Book Was Better (or sometimes just as bad, so please don’t go see 50 Shades of Grey)
I’ll admit this blog was inspired by recently discovering KrimsonRogue (a guy after my own heart with that name) and his YouTube channel “The Book Was Better.” Seriously fun stuff.
As someone who graduated with a BA in “Creative Writing for Text and Screen,” analyzing adaptations in fiction, I have a deep love for this conversation, as there are times…when the book wasn’t better. Or maybe not good at all, but still got a movie.
Take Fight Club, one of my favorite movies of all time. I love the book as well…but the movie was better, and the author himself will be the first to say it. The ending is better, the flow is better. But this is a rare occurrence, we all know.
Even KrimsonRogue admits this on occasion with his YouTube series.
What about Game of Thrones? Is the written series A Song of Ice and Fire better than the TV series? When both are really good, I think the answer is somewhere in between, because the mediums are so different. The book series can often give us more background, more details, more insight into what characters are thinking, but the visual version lets us see it and engage with the characters in a different way.
Is there a reason Game of Thrones is even more popular now because it has a TV version that reaches a broader audience? Maybe just that: reaching a broader audience. I didn’t even know about Twilight until the first movie came out. Harry Potter was popular enough before, but the movies definitely pushed it over the edge into stardom.
On that note, I’d like to personally ask everyone to AVOID seeing 50 Shades of Grey this weekend…or ever. We all know how awful it is, but beyond the terrible writing, remember that this is also an inaccurate depiction of BDSM lifestyles, and instead shows undue violence and abuse that shouldn’t be tolerated.
Twilight teaching young girls that if their boyfriend leaves them all they have to do is attempt suicide and he’ll come back, and everything will be fine, was bad enough, but this takes it to a whole new level.
Don’t see it just to see how bad it really is, don’t give them the satisfaction of making more money. These poor actors already deeply regret being part of this project and don’t want to do more (see ANY of their interviews for the disastrous press tour). Let’s send a message that this is not the type of story we want.
Some things like Sharknado are fun to watch for the train wreck; 50 Shades of Grey will be nothing but awful and needs to bomb at the box office.
Let’s all do our part and go see Kingsman instead.
As someone who graduated with a BA in “Creative Writing for Text and Screen,” analyzing adaptations in fiction, I have a deep love for this conversation, as there are times…when the book wasn’t better. Or maybe not good at all, but still got a movie.
Take Fight Club, one of my favorite movies of all time. I love the book as well…but the movie was better, and the author himself will be the first to say it. The ending is better, the flow is better. But this is a rare occurrence, we all know.
Even KrimsonRogue admits this on occasion with his YouTube series.
What about Game of Thrones? Is the written series A Song of Ice and Fire better than the TV series? When both are really good, I think the answer is somewhere in between, because the mediums are so different. The book series can often give us more background, more details, more insight into what characters are thinking, but the visual version lets us see it and engage with the characters in a different way.
Is there a reason Game of Thrones is even more popular now because it has a TV version that reaches a broader audience? Maybe just that: reaching a broader audience. I didn’t even know about Twilight until the first movie came out. Harry Potter was popular enough before, but the movies definitely pushed it over the edge into stardom.
On that note, I’d like to personally ask everyone to AVOID seeing 50 Shades of Grey this weekend…or ever. We all know how awful it is, but beyond the terrible writing, remember that this is also an inaccurate depiction of BDSM lifestyles, and instead shows undue violence and abuse that shouldn’t be tolerated.
Twilight teaching young girls that if their boyfriend leaves them all they have to do is attempt suicide and he’ll come back, and everything will be fine, was bad enough, but this takes it to a whole new level.
Don’t see it just to see how bad it really is, don’t give them the satisfaction of making more money. These poor actors already deeply regret being part of this project and don’t want to do more (see ANY of their interviews for the disastrous press tour). Let’s send a message that this is not the type of story we want.
Some things like Sharknado are fun to watch for the train wreck; 50 Shades of Grey will be nothing but awful and needs to bomb at the box office.
Let’s all do our part and go see Kingsman instead.
