Some words about The Dark is Rising movie. (Oh, and um, hi.)

[dotsomething]

Hi. I swear I meant to do a real update and don't mean for my first post in a while to be only film-related.

But I'm having an unpretty film moment.

Unlocked, please link away.

Thank you sistermagpie for alerting me with her post with the info. Originally found by charlotteschaos and posted here. Here's the page ywith the original information, the audition casting notes

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[raincitygirl]

Oh, and in the book the Rider doesn't masquerade as the local doctor, he masquerades as a gem dealer who has met and cultivated the acquaintance of Mr Stanton in his professional capacity. To the point where he maneouvres Mr Stanton into letting him (the Rider) into his home on Christmas Day, to drop off a jewellery present that wasn't finished on time when Mr Stanton had to leave on Christmas Eve. And the Rider conveniently happened to be in the shop on other business, and helpfully offered to wait around for it to be finished, and then drop it off on Christmas morning as he'd be driving near their house on the way to his own Christmas Day plans anyway.

Nice guy, spirit of the season, pure coincidental timing, etc. Not someone Mr Stanton would've been likely to invite into his home under normal circumstances, but presented with such a situation, and such a kind gesture by a mere business acquaintance, why wouldn't he?

This change *could* work, I guess, but is Yank Will supposed to be brand-new to the village? If they've lived there for any length of time, it makes much more sense to have the Rider as a doctor filling in for the regular doctor who's on vacation. Rather like Miss Greythorpe's regular butler conveniently needing to disappear for a while (I forget if it's illness or holiday) so Merriman can step in and have a legitimate reason to be seen about the village and talk to people.

This change may actually be a good idea, because it gives the Rider more time to interact with Will onscreen, and more access to the oblivious Stantons, as a healthcare professional. But given some of the other choices that they seem to have made, I don't know about this one. It's just a little thing, and in an adaptation that seemed to have some vague resemblance to the book, it wouldn't bother me, but.....