Hollywood Lacking in Clue, Film at Eleven

[gothwalk]

No church in movie of His Dark Materials

Ursula le Guin not impressed with Earthsea movie

That's impressively dumb. I don't think they've copped at all that the reason that the LOTR movies have succeeded so very well is that they stick very close to the plot of the book, and like glue to the spirit.

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[m-nivalis.livejournal.com]

And they made Ged white... *grrr* One of the few books to really overturn the reader's (well, mine anyway) assumed skincolour of the protagonists. And it's done very subtly too, IIRC.

[yechidah.livejournal.com]

Thank you. It has been almost 25 years since I read the books, but I was pretty sure that Ged was black.

I recall that she waited until well into the story before she gave us a description of him, and it overturned my assumption, too.