Random ramblings on a Friday
Feb. 4th, 2005 12:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
charliesmumOkay. I had this whole entry and when I went to post it LJ told me the time was backdated or something, and when I went to fix it, I lost my whole post. Gah.
Now this post is not going to be nearly as good as the one I lost. They never are. LJ - the modern writer's 'man from Porlock'. *looks around to see who gets the pretentious reference*
So last night I had a dream that I was watching the movie Constantine, and in my dream I was actually saying 'They didn't call it Hellblazer, I don't have to believe it' because apparently it is even bugging my subconscious that Keanu Reeves was picked to play John Constantine, and they didn't even try to make him English.
This dream led me to ponder what it is that bothers me so about books (or graphic novels) getting made into movies. I came to the conclusion that what really bothers me is that movies are so much more invasive than books on a mass level, and therefore there will be many people who will never read the book or, worse, never even know there was a book first.
Thanks to this movie, it is possible that John Constantine will now forever been seen as an LA-living, Valley-Dude drawling, Keanu-Reeves looking guy instead of the demon-driven, darkly scarcastic Sting looklike Englishman I know and love, and people will say "Constantine? Oh, that was that bad Keanu Reeves movie, wasn't it?" instead of "Oh, Hellblazer. Great story. Alan Moore is a genius." and so on.
Don't get me wrong, I like movies. I love when a movie captures imaginations all over the world, and I'm sure there are hundreds of people out there with ideas for original screenplays, so why every popular book be made into a movie? It's like we don't trust our own imagination to carry the story well enough, so we have to let Hollywood do it.
And in Cute Charlie news, this morning he mentioned again how he wants to be a Fireman when he is an 'odult' and when I asked him what Firemen did he thought for a moment and then said "Firement un-set fires."
Now this post is not going to be nearly as good as the one I lost. They never are. LJ - the modern writer's 'man from Porlock'. *looks around to see who gets the pretentious reference*
So last night I had a dream that I was watching the movie Constantine, and in my dream I was actually saying 'They didn't call it Hellblazer, I don't have to believe it' because apparently it is even bugging my subconscious that Keanu Reeves was picked to play John Constantine, and they didn't even try to make him English.
This dream led me to ponder what it is that bothers me so about books (or graphic novels) getting made into movies. I came to the conclusion that what really bothers me is that movies are so much more invasive than books on a mass level, and therefore there will be many people who will never read the book or, worse, never even know there was a book first.
Thanks to this movie, it is possible that John Constantine will now forever been seen as an LA-living, Valley-Dude drawling, Keanu-Reeves looking guy instead of the demon-driven, darkly scarcastic Sting looklike Englishman I know and love, and people will say "Constantine? Oh, that was that bad Keanu Reeves movie, wasn't it?" instead of "Oh, Hellblazer. Great story. Alan Moore is a genius." and so on.
Don't get me wrong, I like movies. I love when a movie captures imaginations all over the world, and I'm sure there are hundreds of people out there with ideas for original screenplays, so why every popular book be made into a movie? It's like we don't trust our own imagination to carry the story well enough, so we have to let Hollywood do it.
And in Cute Charlie news, this morning he mentioned again how he wants to be a Fireman when he is an 'odult' and when I asked him what Firemen did he thought for a moment and then said "Firement un-set fires."