Class Tonight...

[liralen]

Got to see Beowulf with John and... well... I didn't like it much.

Ah well. It was very pretty and quite the adventure and very... Gaiman, I guess.

Sometimes Gaiman's sense of story, which works so well in print and on the page in text just... doesn't work in movies for me. I'm not sure why, but I think it's one of the reasons the 200 didn't work for me that well, either. Something that's moving in graphic novels is... over the top when in motion. Something about it just doesn't translate well for me.

Ah well.

I have the next chapter of Thorn and Ash partially done, but I'm going to have to go to dinner and class. Maybe I can get it out after I get back. Bah...

Comments

[ross-teneyck.livejournal.com]

I think maybe you dropped a hundred somewhere up there :)

I know what you mean about Gaiman's movies. I still haven't managed to make it to Beowulf, although I definitely plan to. But I remember, for instance, when I first saw the trailer for Mirrormask, and it included the names "Neil Gaiman" and "Jim Henson Workshop," and my brain had a fangasm right there in the theater. And then when I finally saw it... it was good, certainly, but it wasn't brilliant and I'd been hoping for brilliant. Same with Stardust, which was also a good movie and all, but it didn't take me to the same place the book did.

I continue to hold out hope that Gaiman will find his film masterpiece someday; but I've already gathered that Beowulf isn't it. Which is a pity.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I dropped a 100 there, but then they were kind of dropped anyway from the story... it seemed like there were only 10 that counted. Sigh...

It would have been a much odder story to have known all 300 that went with him and how they died. *laughter*

But, yes, to both Mirrormask and Stardust. For some reason, in text, I follow randomness and associations much better than I do in a movie, or something... or it makes more visceral sense when I have the time to digest if *I* wish to.

Stardust obviously had a Hollywood makeover, and didn't carry any of the same terror or brilliant turns of forgiveness and connection that the book did, but I suppose that those would have had the same problems Beowulf did for me. And it probably would not have earned the rating it did, in the original form.

Yes, perhaps Gaiman will find it, someday. I hope so.