#1
Posted: 4/18/04 at 11:35am
If adaptating novels for stage is lazy, then how about this..
It's not really 'bad', or in any way life threatening, but this made me very annoyed. They're currently filming Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events with JIM CAREY in the role of Count Olaf. Now, I don't know how many people have read these books, but Jim Carey is about as un-Count Olaf-ish as they come. Olaf is a villain, a real nasty piece of work. Jim Carey is too funny to play Olaf, he'll try and turn the film into a comedy, and it's not - it's a very dark book(/s).
To top this, I have to say - I can't believe they're turning the books into a film. It's all Harry Potter from here on. There'll be merchandise galore, sales of the books will go through the roof. I love the fact that hardly anyone (certainly in England) knows about these fantastic little books. As of December this year, the whole world is going to want to get their hands on the events of the Baudelaire orphans.
Lemony Snicket seems, from his style of writing (and yes I know he's writing under an identity), the kind of writer who would hate any of this globalism, any of this exposition. Sure, his bank balance will go through the roof, but this is a case of money winning over art.
Why can't books be books? ASOUE is about imagination. It's gothic, very dark. Although it's perfect for film adaptation, it will completely ruin what people get from it by reading it. The descriptions he gives are vivid enough without the need for it to be blown in our faces millions of dollars later.
Yep, I'm completely overreacting.. there are worse things to get annoyed about. But.. what the hell.. I will not be seeing the film, and I urge everyone who hasn't already read the books to do so now.
It's not really 'bad', or in any way life threatening, but this made me very annoyed. They're currently filming Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events with JIM CAREY in the role of Count Olaf. Now, I don't know how many people have read these books, but Jim Carey is about as un-Count Olaf-ish as they come. Olaf is a villain, a real nasty piece of work. Jim Carey is too funny to play Olaf, he'll try and turn the film into a comedy, and it's not - it's a very dark book(/s).
To top this, I have to say - I can't believe they're turning the books into a film. It's all Harry Potter from here on. There'll be merchandise galore, sales of the books will go through the roof. I love the fact that hardly anyone (certainly in England) knows about these fantastic little books. As of December this year, the whole world is going to want to get their hands on the events of the Baudelaire orphans.
Lemony Snicket seems, from his style of writing (and yes I know he's writing under an identity), the kind of writer who would hate any of this globalism, any of this exposition. Sure, his bank balance will go through the roof, but this is a case of money winning over art.
Why can't books be books? ASOUE is about imagination. It's gothic, very dark. Although it's perfect for film adaptation, it will completely ruin what people get from it by reading it. The descriptions he gives are vivid enough without the need for it to be blown in our faces millions of dollars later.
Yep, I'm completely overreacting.. there are worse things to get annoyed about. But.. what the hell.. I will not be seeing the film, and I urge everyone who hasn't already read the books to do so now.
