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⌈ Secret Post #2787 ⌋

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...that if they made the second The Giver trailer in B&W we would forget all the other terrible shit? The aging up so you can shoehorn in a romantic storyline (a LOVE TRIANGLE no less). The idiotic action sequences. The manufactured conflict. DID YOU?

If for some reason I went to see that movie I'd wear my shirt that says "the book was better". I cannot believe how shitty that movie looks.

I'm trying to forget this exists. Is the love triangle between Asher/Jonas/Fiona? Because uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh [groaning noise of great disgust]. (I didn't watch the trailer.) I might accept it if Jonas was in love with both Asher and Fiona.

I just posted an article that talks about the terrible, terrible, terrible changes.

Again MAJOR Spoilers for the movie and book

From this article: http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/08/18/the_giver_movie_s_differences_from_the_book_how_it_compares_to_the_lois.html

But here are some highlights.

-There is also a weird clap they do in the movie where they bang their left hands on their left thighs and keep their right hands in a fist on their right thighs. In the book they clap like regular people.
-His father is compassionate in both the movie and the book, but in the movie his mother seems like the enemy. This is not the case in the book.
-In the movie, on the other hand, he [Asher, Jonas' friend] is a serious, unsmiling busybody who is selected as a drone pilot and later begins to suspect Jonas of breaking the community’s rules.
-The scene where Rosemary plays the piano is not in the book—Jonas refuses to accept a memory of music from the Giver, because he wants the Giver to be able to keep it—and was presumably added so that Taylor Swift could have more screen time. (Similarly, the role of the Chief Elder, a minor one in the book, was expanded for Meryl Streep.)
-The movie’s makeshift sled ride, kissing scene, and everything involving her [Fiona. Jonas' friend in the book] near the end of the film are new.
-In both book and movie, Jonas leaves the community with Gabriel. But in nearly every other respect the endings diverge.

ASHER WAS MY FAVORITE CHARACTER. There was enough conflict in the fact that Jonas had to deal with his friends not understanding what he was going through-- like the scene where Asher is playing "war" and Jonas gets mad that he doesn't understand why it's not a fun game to play. WHY DOES JONAS HAVE TO PUNCH HIM!?

BECAUSE HOLLYWOOD SUCKS!

-There is also a weird clap they do in the movie where they bang their left hands on their left thighs and keep their right hands in a fist on their right thighs. In the book they clap like regular people.

lmao what is this.

The fist is saved for later unnecessary punching.

Probably them trying to create a knock-off Hunger Games salute.

romantic storyline (a LOVE TRIANGLE
WAIT WHAT
Wasn't it a big thing in the book that nobody in the Community fell in love???

I think it's the other way around. They shot part of the movie in black and white, but they didn't put that in the original trailer because they thought kids wouldn't like it. They ignored how many kids actually read this in school and know the story.

Even more confusing than the dumb romance and aging up is the fact that the movie is only an hour and a half long. It's basically a tv special at this point.

Love... triangle?????
Love???? in The Giver????

What...

The Giver should have really been an indie movie. It's a quiet book. That's what is so disturbing about it. There's no major villain. There are no epic chases with the army on your trail. It's just the story of a boy who learns how his society actually functions and is shocked and terrified by it. And he is the only one. Even The Giver, for the most part is, "Meh. It works." And that's what is so damn creepy. The adults know but because society is so well maintain and no one goes hungry or forgotten and everyone is given a purpose, they go along with it. No one wants to upset the applecart.

That's what I want to see in The Giver. A quiet society that seems almost hippy like perfect but only to reveal how apathetic it really is. Apathy is the true enemy in the book.

Exactly! The entire book felt so small, so quiet. Low tech, the calm ever so slightly unnerving. I want to see the movie of that book.

And exactly how deep the wrongness goes creeps up on you. Hell, you don't even find out that nobody can see color until almost halfway through the book.

I think I've seen the trailer for that at least 3 of the five times I saw 'Guardians of the Galaxy' recently.

I have to say, it looked bad simply because it gave me "generic YA movie vibes" every single time. And that is something I just can't get behind. =T

Sort of on a tangent, but trailers for everything have seemed weirdly bad recently. Even the trailers for Guardians of the Galaxy seriously misrepresented the movie, which was mostly a bunch of screw ups stumbling into saving the universe. The trailers all make it seem deliberate, like they're well known if not popular heroes, and there's extra dialogue all over the place. /been bothering me

Honestly I can't believe they thought they needed to divert so heavily from the book. The book was already so visual and most of the scenes were begging for a faithful screen adaptation. They took one of the easiest to translate to film books I can think of and somehow fucked it up so badly that it's nearly unrecognizable. Amazing.

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