[Looks up Mira Furlan]
Huh, so the Frenchwoman is really Croatian?
It was the Sci-Fi (SyFy?) television miniseries with Danny Glover and Isabella Rossellini (OHWFA!).
To be honest, it wasn't terrible on a bunch of standards (the gebbeth, I thought, was pretty cool) but it took way too many liberties with the plot for a devoted Le Guinian like me to stomach without complaint. I believe I read somewhere that when asked about it, Ursula, like Alan Moore, said she just took the money and ran. (I don't recall her name even being listed in the credits, but I could be wrong.)
Perhaps Shawn Ashmore is a fine actor, I couldn't say, but he made a terrible Ged, imho. Finally, I didn't like what they did with Tenar and the other ladies (I don't think they once called her Arha).
Huh. I only saw one thing on TV, which may either have been an episode in a larger series or not; I couldn't say. I'm a pretty devoted Le Guin fan myself, and I really could have switched channels at any point after the first half-hour (I think it was a two-hour special). I have to admit that I watched it all the way through more out of loyalty than enjoyment, then promptly re-read the books.
Sugar Candy Mountain is going fine except for the fact that I haven't been able to do any reading. I think they're on to me. :(
Uh-oh. That could be bad.
*Sigh* So, what does "OHWFA" mean? I don't really text much - make that, at all - so I'm way behind on the abbreviations.
The DVD wasn't broken into episodes, but it felt like three.
And, you're right, all it really did was make me want to re-read the books, but I resisted.
I don't text, either. OHWFA! is an elite membership organization (only two members, myself and Comrade Mean DM, and one sympathizer, Mr. Shifty) devoted to contemplation of the female form. We have a sister (brother?) organization, OHDFA! if you're interested, or you can also join OHWFA!
You can read more about it here.
Btw, I only got off a measly chapter of "The Death of Ivan Ilych" on the clock today. [Grumbles and curses]
Cinema and the Class Stuggle, Part, um, I lost track
Smash Panem Through Workers Revolution!
I read Catching Fire and Mockingjay after I watched The Hunger Games and my enjoyment was only improved by picturing Coriolanus Snow as Donald Sutherland.
After watching Bertolucci's 1900, Donald is my go-to guy for depicting evil fascist bastards.
Malcolm is awesome, too, of course, but I don't know what he would've brought to the Games that Donnie didn't.
Incidentally, if Catching Fire is any good, I imagine it is the first good movie of the series.
Nevertheless, Vive le Katniss!
It's a volume level really, Sutherland is quietly menacing, McDowell is menacingly quiet.
McDowell is incredibly creepy, though, which isn't a quality I ever associated with Sutherland; he just sounds too fatherly to pull it off. I have trouble picturing Sutherland as a megalomaniacal mass-murderer.
Et vive la Katniss!
(I can and do appreciate the female form. Jennifer Lawrence is hawt, especially in that skin-tight suit.)
Jennifer Lawrence is indeed hawt. And, better still, she is a truly excellent actor. And she's hilarious on Letterman. I just love her!
However, I can't help but feel that she is in danger of finding herself overexposed. She seems to be in every major upcoming flick. That can go wrong for a young actor, really quickly.
Also, Katniss is a stupid, stupid (and obvious - she's like a cat - get it?!) name.
I hate that name. I like the character well enough.
I want to somehow punish the author for that lousy name. Like... never buying or reading those books. I'll stick with the flicks.
McDowell is incredibly creepy, though, which isn't a quality I ever associated with Sutherland...
(He's even more creepy in is comedies.)
I want to somehow punish Ms. Collins for naming the land Panem and then pretending, at the end of the series, that the connection to Bread and Circuses was some kind of surprisising reveal.
Otoh, the books were written for children and maybe I'm just being a snob,
Either way,
Smash Panem Through Workers Revolution!
("Peeta Mallark" is a much worse name than "Katniss Everdeen.")
Yes. Andie McDowell is just too creepy. It would have been like the premiere of Frankenstein with people running for their lives.
Is that Andie MacDowell or Malcolm McDowell, Sissyl? (Andie is an American woman; Malcolm is a British man.)
Andie. Definitely Andie.
>.< Thank you. Oh, thank you. I now have a horrible picture in my brain.
IIRC, she started as a model.
