#book and movie comparison

[secretnimh]

It's movie night, and they're watching The Princess Bride. If you don't think Eddie would have a DC Blue Beetle popcorn bucket, you're mistaken

[uselessalexis165]

i love you characters with similar qualities that get criticized more just for being women

[nadiajustbe]

"Movie Howl is better than book Ho-" Lie. Slander. Misinformation. Error. Delusion. Objectively wrong.

[honey-bri-books]

Alex to Henry:

"His Royal Highness Prince Henry of Whatever,

Don't make me learn your actual title."

Alex to the entire world.

"I love his Royal Highness Prince Henry George Edward James Hanover-Stuart-Fox."

[cxanthos]

Snowjanus has burrowed a little hole in me that I can’t get rid of.

Full disclosure I did not ship them when I read the book despite Sejanus being my favorite character. They just never came off as anything more than platonic in my opinion during the times I read the book.

But the movie put them in a whole new perspective for me. Sejanus definitely wanted to kiss Coryo. I stand by this. And Coriolanus after Sejanus was *spoiler* hung??

Fucking shoot me, I love my angsty ass ships. I’m going to have to reread the book with Sejanus being in love with Coriolanus in mind and see if I pick up on it as well in the book or if it’s just Sejanus’s actor.

[sunnylemonss]

there's no higher betrayal than finding out your favorite book has been made into a movie and the movie turns out to be absolute garbage

[chamomile-tea-time]

i understand reaper is a big symbol in the movie and a lot of people admire his character as this defiant rebellious kid who stands up for what's right, but at least 80% of that persona was the movie's adaptation of his character.

in the book, he:

• attacks coriolanus without provocation & is said to have killed a peacekeeper (the movie kept this)

• was injured in the bombing

• intimidates the other tributes

• apologizes individually to the other tributes for when (not "if") he's going to kill them

• tells the other tributes that when he wins he's going to take down the capitol

• gets spat at by jessup, contracting rabies

• first cuts down a piece of the flag to trade to lamina for food, not as a statement

• makes a big splash and gets attention without clemensia's help

• carries all the bodies around in delirium from his rabies

• covers the bodies with the torn down flag (the movie kept this)

• chases lucy gray around, still delirious, injured, and starving

• accidentally drinks rat poison and lays down next to the other bodies to die

in the book, he does not:

• show much sympathy for the living tributes

• die because of the snakes

• talk to the cameras

i think the movie's choice to turn him into a compassionate figure was super intriguing and i'm glad so many people liked this change because i thought it was really cool as well^^ however, i do think the original version is important as well, as it shows that the tributes were really just confused, broken kids, only with fear and survival fueling them forward

[thexfridax]

32 queer books vs their movie adaptations via @autostraddle

[maddieisnotreal]

on earth we’re briefly gorgeous by ocean vuong // love is a mixtape by rob sheffield // 20th century women (2016) // a world alone - lorde // quote by anna akhmatova // quote by friedrich nietzsche // i carry your heart with me by E.E. cummings // level 5 (1997) // wait by galway kinnell // chiquitita - abba

[onpurposeilovehimonpurpose]

Alex Claremont-Diaz Speeches

Although these speeches are quite different from one another, they are both incredibly powerful and share in the characters' reactions and the pain felt from being forcibly outed, amongst other themes and perhaps most importantly, that love is indomitable. There can't be enough of this on tumblr today.

[repmet]

Ngl, despite my apprehension (i.e. I'm old and cynical), I'm interested to see what they do with the Red, White & Royal Blue sequel partly since I know in the book bonus chapter, Henry gives up his title - I haven't actually read it so idk if he's actually described as 'abdicating' or fandom just decided to use that term (which is not exactly correct).

But the book lacks a lot of accuracy around the British Royal family where as the movie put in a bit more effort (e.g. Henry's Mum being Duchess of Edinburgh not Princess of Wales) and since in the United Kingdom, Henry can't step out of the line of succession without an Act of Parliament which isn't an insignificant thing, I wonder if the movie will focus on that or if it will gloss over it or just go in a brand new direction entirely for a new audience who aren't familiar with the book.

Personally, I hope for the latter partially because the parallels to certain real life royals would get distracting but mostly because I'd love to see Henry use the position he once felt suffocated by to advocate for and empower others.

Though being honest, I'm mostly just hoping they don't fall into the romance sequel trope of breaking them up to get them back together again.

To be clear though, in real life I think the entire monarchy should be abolished - but in this gay little movie world I have other thoughts :)

[andromeda3116]

people actually went on about how game of thrones made it socially acceptable to be a fantasy nerd, as though the lord of the rings movies hadn't been released less than a decade earlier and left far greater cultural ripples and i am just

got may have made the adults feel better about liking fantasy, but lotr got into the kids' heads when they (we) were just young and impressionable enough to be absolutely transported and emotionally rewritten by don't you leave him, samwise gamgee and my brother, my captain, my king and and rohan will answer

lotr was rewriting entire generations' brain chemistry long before asoiaf and so obviously it's not fair to compare any post-lotr fantasy novel to it, and each book series was trying to do different things within their own spheres and so that also is not a fair comparison, but in terms of the cultural impact of the adaptations that came out within a decade of each other, saying that it was game of thrones that made fantasy mainstream is baffling

game of thrones could only run because the lord of the rings movies laid the path, and i will die on this hill

[mtonino]

Side by Side

Dishonored (1931) Josef Von Sternberg

Bell, Book and Candle (1958) Richard Quine

[awakefor48hours]

Gonna watch Uglies. Hope it’s good.

[velvet4510]

Edit: aaagh I can’t believe I forgot to put “Théoden getting to see that it was Éowyn who saved him”! Consider my option about their talk to include this point as well!

[vertigoartgore]

1986 Watchmen house ads and their 2009 live-action remakes (used as characters posters for Zack Snyder's movie). Source Source