Tuesday, November 17, 2009
dear my son of the future
son i didn't vote for the first black president, i never smoked a cigarette, and i never went outside for a meteor shower. unfortunately i'm still your dad and you're still my kid so get to your fucking room and build you some bunkbeds because godwilling you're getting a baby brother 9 months and 15 minutes from now.
Sunday, November 8, 2009
YES YOU JUDGE THEM DIFFERENTLY WHICH IS WHY THIS DEBATE IS LINGUISTICALLY FLAWED AND INCOHERENT
or something.
by saying the book or movie is "better" you're really just commenting on which one you "liked" better. or maybe you take it a step further and compare the unquantifiable amount of joy the book gave you compared to other books with the unquantifiable amount of joy the movie gave you compared to other movies. in either case your criteria is undoubtedly vague and aside from theme and dialogue very few parallels can exist between the merits of a book and the merits of a movie.
a movie based off a book can only be one person's interpretation.
like... why can't i get a cool harry potter tattoo? because there are no pictures of harry potter, or hogwarts, or anything from the book that isn't one person's interpretation. there is no absolute potter. maybe the movie posters? a picture from the first edition? a sketch from rowling's notebook? all interpretations. I am the one who decides how hot or not hermione or cho chang is. which is true for movies, but not in the same way.
shakespeaere gets retold. beckett gets retold. star wars is fucking done. i might enjoy one person's romeo over another's but i always have to bear mark hamil.
a good book lets you fill in the blanks and make it into something enjoyable because nobody's gonna keep reading a book they hate unless it's for college, and schoolacademia is where good fiction retires, not where it is born or lives.
this argument is like saying what is better, chocolate chip cookies, or my grandma's chocolate chip cookies.
or something.
by saying the book or movie is "better" you're really just commenting on which one you "liked" better. or maybe you take it a step further and compare the unquantifiable amount of joy the book gave you compared to other books with the unquantifiable amount of joy the movie gave you compared to other movies. in either case your criteria is undoubtedly vague and aside from theme and dialogue very few parallels can exist between the merits of a book and the merits of a movie.
a movie based off a book can only be one person's interpretation.
like... why can't i get a cool harry potter tattoo? because there are no pictures of harry potter, or hogwarts, or anything from the book that isn't one person's interpretation. there is no absolute potter. maybe the movie posters? a picture from the first edition? a sketch from rowling's notebook? all interpretations. I am the one who decides how hot or not hermione or cho chang is. which is true for movies, but not in the same way.
shakespeaere gets retold. beckett gets retold. star wars is fucking done. i might enjoy one person's romeo over another's but i always have to bear mark hamil.
a good book lets you fill in the blanks and make it into something enjoyable because nobody's gonna keep reading a book they hate unless it's for college, and schoolacademia is where good fiction retires, not where it is born or lives.
this argument is like saying what is better, chocolate chip cookies, or my grandma's chocolate chip cookies.
a note on sunday
i think the way i do because public opinion is generally and at best an approximation of the truth without being the truth. i know i'm one of the good guys because my version of truth strives to be all-encompassing knowing it can never be whereas others maintain their versions are all-encompassing despite their failure to account for evidence and insights whether scientific, philosophical, or religious.
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