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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The thing with Simon Birch/Owen Meany:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>that book is just huge. Irving wrote a dense
book. There's no way all that book could have been fit into a movie.
The movie itself is OK. not the best i've ever seen, but it didn't
suck. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>But if you've read the book, and you know just how
much there is to that story (and how much they; mucked with the ending of
the movie), you have to stick to the book. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And why did they change the name?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Abbie, who read PFOM in high school and loved it so
much she cried</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><A href="mailto:starling823@yahoo.com">starling823@yahoo.com</A><BR>69%
obsessed with HP and loving it<BR>"Ah, music," Dumbledore said, wiping his
eyes. "A magic beyond all we do
here!"<BR> -HP and the
Sorcerer's Stone</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, 24 April, 2001 11:51
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [HPFGU-OTChatter] "But the
book was better!"</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>First things first: I'm new here. Harry
Potter fan since the first book (read it to my son before he was born and
haven't been able to stop). Also, our son is named Harry too. Cept
his full name is Harrison. But his name; Harry Porter, is awful close,
don't you think? ;)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is an issue I have always been interested
in. When I was much younger, I would read a book and then watch
the movie, or, if I saw a movie and loved it, I would read the book in order
to get a deeper understanding. But sadly, most of the movies are VERY
lacking. I have to agree that Winona Ryder's Little Women was
great. I haven't read A Prayer for Owen Meany but since I enjoyed Simon
Birch (flame me now!) I bet I would love the book so I'll have to look it
up. Stephen King's The Stand was a great movie and the made-for-tv
version was as good as it could have been (King doesn't translate to screen
very well). </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Very often the movie is disappointing. If i
haven't read the novel first, I don't tend to notice as much, but if I have,
I'm always upset by what is left out of the story and how the characters are
portrayed. My greatest dream is to have Cameron Crowe's job. To be
a writer and director would be heaven. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Great discussion!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></DIV>
<DIV>Marilyn Porter<BR>wife to Kile (8/8/98), mom to Harry
(11/10/99)<BR>"Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to
decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body." -
Elizabeth Stone</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, April 24, 2001 7:33
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [HPFGU-OTChatter] "But the
book was better!"</DIV>
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<DIV><TT>An article today at Salon Magazine, at <BR><A
href="http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/2001/04/24/movies_books/index.">http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/2001/04/24/movies_books/index.</A><BR>html
was food for thought over breakfast.<BR><BR>My husband & I were talking
about this last week, because of a blurb <BR>in Entertainment Weekly about a
TCM airing of To Kill A Mockingbird - <BR>his favorite book ever (yes, if
Harry had been a girl, we would've <BR>named the baby Harper!) and one of
his favorite movies as well - the <BR>blurb said, to paraphrase, "The movie
that makes it impossible to <BR>say, The book was better!"<BR><BR>Obviously,
some books are better than the movies that were made based <BR>on them. The
ones that come to mind from recent years are The Prince <BR>of Tides, which
defiled an amazing novel, and Simon Birch, which <BR>annihalated all the
wonder of A Prayer for Owen Meaney.<BR>But Cider House Rules was wonderful,
Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet was <BR>amazing (but to show that it's not
consistant, his Frankenstein was a <BR>confusing mess) and I loved Little
Women (the Wynona Ryder version) <BR>but I know others who loved the book as
much as I do, and hated her <BR>adaptation, which was truly a labor of love
for her.<BR><BR>The article talks about how to *read* movies, and wonders
whether <BR>literary-obsessed people can *read* a movie with a look below
the <BR>surface, to see the organization and control that goes into adapting
<BR>and staging a scene.<BR><BR>It's an interesting read - and I'd love it
if some of those who read <BR>it bring a discussion of the writer's concepts
over here.<BR><BR>Any takers?<BR><BR></DIV></TT></BLOCKQUOTE>
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