Running late. A BIT

[cleolinda]

I spent yesterday gleefully researching, and today, I... crashed a bit. Mood is high, though. I'm just kind of sleepy and scattered.

So, instead, I went and read through Mark Reads Harry Potter--the Prisoner of Azkaban and Goblet of Fire blogs, at least. I'd kind of vaguely heard of it back when he was doing Mark Reads Twilight, and--God bless,

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[cupcakery]

I want him to be destroyed by the next three books the way the rest of us were: properly.

FUCKING YEARS BETWEEN BOOKS.

Not that I'm still bitter or anything.

[cleolinda]

Well, he's having to read it a chapter a day, which might even it out in terms of suffering. A bit.

[cupcakery]

Three. Years. After the whole cemetery bit. Three. Years.

[nicolars]

Yeah.

I started reading the HP series right when Goblet of Fire was released, so I read all four books in about a week or so and then had to wait three years for the next book.

[bumblebee_1983]

OH MY GOSH. RORSCHACH KITTY IS THE CUTEST THING EVER.

And I LOVE LOVE LOVE Mark and reading his blogs. THEY ARE BRILLIANT.

I laughed my ass off at his Twilight commentary (and how he got rid of the books.) HE IS BRILLIANT.

I've only read a little bit of his Harry Potter ones, and I died at his love for Hagrid. DIED.

[cleolinda]

I may have to go back and try to read the Twilight ones, then. I dipped into the Eclipse posts for a random sampling, but then I got angry and wanted to throw things all over again.

[bumblebee_1983]

I owe him my life. A lot of my friends are like "Ohh read the books, they're not that bad." And I resisted.

So I read his blog and it saved me from all that angst and barfing.

So I owe him big time. LOL!

[aficat]

If you read only one of his Twiblogs, read the last chapter of the last actual book (He had to finish up the leaked one by video, since he couldn't take any more).

[cleolinda]

It is my dream to screenwrite the next version of Dracula (it's only a matter of time). There was that long-ass entry I posted a few months back--I want to go back and use imagery/scenes from the book that don't get used as often.

(You know what would actually be great? If HBO picked something like that up for a 4-6 hour miniseries.)

[bumblebee_1983]

Question: Who would you cast in your screenplay?

Gary Oldman was AWESOME in the Coppola version.

But Sam Worthington? REALLY? Does he have to be in everything?

[cleolinda]

I honestly have no idea. I tend to think it would be someone I couldn't possibly imagine.

Maybe I'm strange, but I would really like to bring Jonathan and Mina back to the forefront. Jonathan always kind of gets lost once the Castle Dracula part is over, and his relationship with Mina really struck me this last time that I reread it. I finally went, oh my God, they've both been assaulted, basically, and by the same person, and rather than feel like his wife is "unclean" (even if that's how she views it), he must feel awful that it's happened to her as well, while he was asleep beside her, but at the same time--that must unite them in some way. I think in the book he even says something about there being no secrets between them anymore. So it's like--I'd like to shift Dracula back to being an actual villain (and the fact that you can somehow still be drawn to him is what's so horrifying), but center the emotional aspects on the Harkers.

[nb2000]

I've been working my way through Mark Reads Harry Potter since you linked it on Twitter. It's bringing back all sorts of memories about reading the books for the first time, and then of when I went back and read them again. I'm now determined to give them another read through in the near future.

I couldn't agree with you more about trying to force films/books/anything else on people. It's just rude to push someone that much.

[bumblebee_1983]

I'm going to re-read them before the next movie comes out. Which doesn't give me much time.

But I am getting one goal accomplished: I'm going to Orlando to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park at the end of the month.

SCOOORREEE!!!

[cmdr_zoom]

thiiiiiis

[nicolars]

I can understand that feeling of really loving something and hoping your friends and family love it too, but people have to remember not to be obnoxious about it.

[dzurlady]

Yeah, and sometimes people have reasons they don't want to see something and they might not want to discuss what they are. Or they might usually like something but at the time the movie (or whatever) comes out they don't want to watch it, for reasons you might not be aware of.

For example, I didn't want to watch Pixar's Up, even though I usually would have loved it, because when it was out I was feeling quite down about my father's death (some time prior) and knew that I couldn't deal with anything related to people's loved ones dying. And that was something I was willing to tell people, but people sometimes have reasons they don't want to share.