Another Rant? Oh yes
I just finished watching Earthsea, the Sci Fi Channel broadcast of a four-hour loose
adaptation for television of A Wizard of Earthsea and The Tombs of Atuan, the first two books in Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea series. Needless to say, I am disgusted.
They have taken these wonderful books and made their own mediocre story out of it's pieces.
Its almost as if Executive Producer Robert Halmi and his associates took the books, shredded them
into confetti, let them fall to the floor and randomly picked up some of the pieces and tried to make
a story out of it, while filling in the rest with what they wanted. And what was the result?
Another shoddy, poorly thought out, lazy excuse of a television adaption for a immensly wonderful
series of books.
Ursula Le Guin herself had NOTHING to do with the TV adaption and had this to say about it, on her
website:
I can only admire Mr [Executive Producer Robert] Halmi's imagination, but I wish he'd left mine alone... I wonder if the people who made the film of The Lord of the Rings had ended it with Frodo putting on the Ring and ruling happily ever after, and then claimed that that was what Tolkien "intended..." Would people think they'd been "very, very honest to the books?
There ya go.
If you haven't read these books and you enjoy fantasy with magic and wizards in it, you should
DEFINITELY pick up these books. Especially Harry Potter fans, since J.K. Rowling was inspired
with much of Harry Potter itself by both J.R.R. Tolkien and Ursula K. Le Guin.
adaptation for television of A Wizard of Earthsea and The Tombs of Atuan, the first two books in Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea series. Needless to say, I am disgusted.
They have taken these wonderful books and made their own mediocre story out of it's pieces.
Its almost as if Executive Producer Robert Halmi and his associates took the books, shredded them
into confetti, let them fall to the floor and randomly picked up some of the pieces and tried to make
a story out of it, while filling in the rest with what they wanted. And what was the result?
Another shoddy, poorly thought out, lazy excuse of a television adaption for a immensly wonderful
series of books.
Ursula Le Guin herself had NOTHING to do with the TV adaption and had this to say about it, on her
website:
I can only admire Mr [Executive Producer Robert] Halmi's imagination, but I wish he'd left mine alone... I wonder if the people who made the film of The Lord of the Rings had ended it with Frodo putting on the Ring and ruling happily ever after, and then claimed that that was what Tolkien "intended..." Would people think they'd been "very, very honest to the books?
There ya go.
If you haven't read these books and you enjoy fantasy with magic and wizards in it, you should
DEFINITELY pick up these books. Especially Harry Potter fans, since J.K. Rowling was inspired
with much of Harry Potter itself by both J.R.R. Tolkien and Ursula K. Le Guin.