Late morning linkspam

[cleolinda]

I feel compelled to tell you a few things:

We have a new official reboot-from-the-beginning Spider-Man, and apparently he is an incredibly talented English actor who is... 27 years old. Behold: First Pictures of Andrew Garfield at the Spider-Man Press Announcement; How Old Will Andrew Garfield Be When the Next Spider-Man 3 Comes Out? Meanwhile, swsa

Comments

[cleolinda]

I don't know that a whole lot of people think about it, who knows. To me, "let the right one in" implies that there's a wrong one to let in, and that you really, really don't want to do that. And if you have to be told to let one in and not the other, that suggests that it might not be immediately apparent which is which, that there's some kind of deceit, or something to discover or reveal. Which is the wrong one? I don't know, but make sure you don't let them in. So the title itself is a warning. And you immediately have a conflict right there in the title--for some reason, we're starting out with the concept that there are good somethings and bad somethings, even if you have no idea what the movie's about. You already have a sense of dread and suspense

[lady_moriel]

Exactly. That's precisely why it annoys me so much that they changed the title, only stated a lot better than I ever did. The difference is subtle but important, with completely different nuances and connotations.

Well, no, actually that's not my entire reason for being annoyed, although the others are more minor: "Let the Right One In" just sounds cooler, and also, the change feels sort of like "Well, American audiences/readers are dumb, so we better change the name of this book/movie or they won't get it." Which...I don't know. Considering it's widely known to be a remake, you'd think they wouldn't feel a need to do that.