Moved from Main - the Dark is rising series and movie

[sistermagpie]

> Alla:
> 
> Oh dear, oh dear and oh dear again. See that is the kind of movie 
> making that makes me so very angry sometimes at people who try to 
> make the adaptations.
> 
> I actually want to tell them - stick to at least heart of the 
story, 
> or do not do it at all.
> 
> If I want to see movie **based** on the book, I want to recognise 
> the  book in it. Yes, I am wierd that way, sigh.
> 
> No, I am not talking about shortening the story - I understand the 
> necessity of that, I may grumble about it, but I understand, but 
WTF -
>  the changes that I just read about on Wiki.
> 
> I KNOW I am not seeing that movie, no matter how good in itself it 
> can be.
> 
> I love Will Stanton as well and NO, he is not like Harry at all 
> indeed besides being English and becoming a wizard at eleven. Not 
> even close.
> 
> 
> And he is NOT, he is NOT American, oh my goodness. Sorry, annoyed. 
> But the whole story loses so much of sense. It is based on English 
> folklor. On *English**. And I wonder is Bran still Pendragon? Is 
he 
> even there?
> 
> Sorry, annoyed.

Magpie:
I so can't get over the changes to this movie. His family is 
American, and they bully him. There's fewer of them, he has a little 
sister, his parents are emotionally cold--so bye bye to my beloved 
Stantons I loved so much! He's also 13 now for some reason. I can't 
even begin to explain the horror I feel reading this.

Bran wouldn't be in The Dark is Rising anyway, since he doesn't show 
up until the Grey King. I can't imagine what they'd do to him. 
Will's American so that he can be even more isolated in a strange 
country (why? who knows?) so I almost wonder if they'd even see the 
difference between English and Welsh as important. 

-m