#we had a great illustrated classics edition in the house (don't know where we got it) and i loved that book it was so cool to me
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as a Bookish Child i ended up watching a lot of movies that were adapted from books after already reading the books first, so i was used to the idea that movies often changed things from the book. this didn't really bother me as a kid because i understood on some level that these were different versions that were telling different stories, sometimes mostly similar and sometimes just doing their own thing. i didn't question it too much.
then i got older and realized at some point that for a lot of people (and i mean a LOT of people), the movie adaptation of something would be the only version of the story they would ever experience and what they would always think of as that story, and then bad adaptations started to bother me a whole lot more. and i began to become pretentious and annoying about it. this is my villain origin story
#books#i'm probably the only person my age i know of who actually read the wizard of oz book before ever seeing the movie#we had a great illustrated classics edition in the house (don't know where we got it) and i loved that book it was so cool to me#it was actually an abridged version which i didn't find out until later but it still had a lot of stuff in it that never gets adapted#and watching the movie is actually maybe the first time i remember being disappointed in an adaptation#because i was looking forward to seeing all these different locations and creatures they encounter on screen#and it felt like they only adapted like half the book :(#(i'm sure there's more of the book in it than i remember but that's how it felt watching it at age 7 or thereabouts)#also i first saw snippets of the ella enchanted movie on tv at a friend's house when i was 10 or so#got the book out of the school library and read it because i was interested in the story from there#sat down to watch the movie again after finishing it and was kind of affronted to realize that the movie was in fact bad#especially so for being a travesty of SUCH a good book
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