On Howl's Moving Castle
Dec. 2nd, 2009 05:55 pm![[personal profile]](/%20https://www.npmjs.com/package/ocr-https-www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seamusogIn one day, I read the book and watched the Miyazaki movie. The book is wonderful. The movie not so much. Perhaps I should not have watched the movie immediately after reading the book. Or maybe I should have watched the movie first. I thought it was rather weak and it practically killed the wonderful characters from the novel. I knew that there would be differences, but I didn't think I would be so sorely disappointed. If I were the novelist, I would have probably felt insulted (and slightly horrified).
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Date: 2009-12-03 12:34 am (UTC)It might help that I did see the movie first, I love Miyazaki's movies in general, and I love the anti-war message he grafted onto the original story. In that case, though, I should have been disappointed in the book, but I wasn't.
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Date: 2009-12-03 12:45 am (UTC)I think with LOTR there had been enough separation from the time I read the books and the time I watched the movie. With Howl's, I watched the movie literally after I read the book. And I had fallen very much in love with the characters in the book. I wanted to see Howl's vanity and silliness and Sophie being a cantankerous old woman and I wanted to see their arguments. *sigh*
With LOTR, the one part I hated the most and which still makes me groan is that lengthy draaaaaammaaaatic prolonging of the scene with the women and children while Helm's Deep is being attacked. (I still love the movies though.)
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Date: 2009-12-03 03:06 am (UTC)Out of curiosity, did you watch the movie first?
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Date: 2009-12-10 10:51 pm (UTC)I did like the first half of the book but then they go to earth and he's Welsh and a footy fan and...urgh. I rarely like cross over books (although there are a number of notable exceptions). It's either in our world or theirs. Pick one and stick with it!
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Date: 2009-12-03 02:49 pm (UTC)If it had been anything but an adaptation, it's pretty decent.
Since it was supposed to be based on one of my most beloved books of all times, I... raged, a little, while watching it. In no way did it do any of the characters justice, and I think Sophie in particular was short-changed. In the book she's really tough, capable and practical (and awesome), but was some sort of a mouse in the movie. It was pretty miserable for me.