Comments | victor_von: The Bridge to the What Now?

victor_von

The Bridge to the What Now?

Jan 25, 2007 13:36

I'm a little uncomfortable posting this. I haven't seen the new Disney film Bridge to Terabithia, and it feels Bob Dole-ish to criticize a movie I haven't seen.

Still, I have to say that I really liked the book Bridge to Terabithia when I first encountered in the fifth grade. It was smart and challenging and a little strange. Without spoiling ( Read more... )

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victor_von January 26 2007, 00:31:41 UTC

I thought I'd seen something about this previously. I hadn't seen the trailer at that point, though.

penitent_tom January 25 2007, 20:00:45 UTC

To be fair, Disney *has* their own "Chronicles of Narnia." The film that came out at the end of 2005 was a Disney Pictures release, and the upcomming adaptation of "Prince Caspian" is likewise. (Though my opinion stands that Disney only optioned "Narnia" because some studio moron said "no" to Peter Jackson in the late nineties when he approached them about "Lord of the Rings ( ... )

victor_von January 26 2007, 00:38:44 UTC

D'oh! I knew I should've checked to that. I could've sworn it was Dreamworks or Wackypants or Hippynostrils. One of those studios.

Even if they don't distort the book's plot, the clash between the "fantasy world" they're illustrating and the extremely hard facts this story deals with is going to be traumatically jarring.

Not that the fantasy genre doesn't frequently contain "hard facts" of its own. But there's a sort of safety in the distance between our world and fantasy lands. Suddenly yanking that protection away in the middle of a story seems both ill-advised and cruel. It's like Ole Yeller, but if the dog could talk and sing.

penitent_tom January 26 2007, 14:49:03 UTC

Wait... you mean Ole Yeller COULDN'T talk and sing? Man, just rip away all of my illusions... that traumatizes me worse than the movie's actual ending!

halogencat January 25 2007, 21:16:25 UTC

Honestly, I felt exactly the same way when I first saw the preview a few days ago. I probably will not be seeing this movie.

victor_von January 26 2007, 00:40:43 UTC

If I ever get to choose a super power, it will be "having the same opinions as Annie."

Oh wait, apparently that is my super power. How do we do that? ;-)

ayvah February 7 2007, 03:30:10 UTC

I saw this, and figured you'd be interested.

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news07/070203h.php