Speaking of Movies

[peggy-2.livejournal.com]

This is sort of off topic, but addresses the issue of taking a beloved YA book/book series and making a movie out of it.  Tomorrow When the War Began by John Marsden is the first of a hugely popular Australian book series, and the movie is set in Australia (filmed near Newcastle).  The books were reprinted in the US about 8 years ago.

I thought the video clip did a fabulous job discussing the concerns and difficulty converting a book to a screen play... and those lovely Aussie accents are fun to listen to, just all on their own  : )

http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2010/09/02/3000664.htm?section=entertainment

Comments

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

I've always wanted to watch a movie or tv show being filmed. While it would sort of ruin ever really losing yourself in the story--since you'd watched it all chopped up into scenes, and filmed out of order--it would be fascinating to see. It looks like they've done a great job on the movie. And I TOTALLY agree about the accents of awesome.

I just showed this book to a kid yesterday, and he checked it out. I was all like, "WHY DOES EVERYONE INSIST ON READING HUNGER GAMES READ THIS INSTEAD," and he was all like, "...yes m'am." :)

[tiegirl.livejournal.com]

Now I have another stack to add to my tbr stack! Why do you do this to me?

[peggy-2.livejournal.com]

This clip certainly caused me to move the book from my tbr list to Next Up

Always happy to help out, TG! Hate to see you running out of reading material ...

: )

[tiegirl.livejournal.com]

:P

[thesehnsucht.livejournal.com]

this is epic
definitely going right on top of my stack
and possibly one of the books to movies done right?
getting a copy...right now.

anyone else have an amazing book to share?