GOOD MORNING!

[lithera]

No. Really. Wow.




I'm awake now. Geeze. It was rough getting out of bed this morning but some good music and some pretty pictures have made my day a little easier to handle. I'm really trying to get my 'but... but that's not what happens!!!!' instincts out of the way. I know some fairly hefty changes to the story but I'm trying to ignore them. I want to see this for the pretty.

There's the question. All of the Classic Epic movies coming out. While on one hand I'm happy they're coming out and exposing people to the stories and all.... Does it really count if they get it all wrong? I'm torn.

Work calls me, lovies.

Comments

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think it counts. It was all an oral tradition anyway: things got conflated, distorted, and left out depending on the storyteller's preferences. Just because we usually pay attention to one main version (only sometimes the original) of a story, doesn't mean that the same skeleton can't be used as part of the folk process. I'm not hoping for any Shakespeare out of the movie industry, but the story-mining he did is the same as what they do.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

That's very true and where I normally end up on the entire subject, if I'm honest with myself. I'm normally pretty flexible about staying true to source material as long as they get the spirit of things down...