[ SECRET POST #2177 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2177 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The films don't do the books anything like justice... erm, I'd better not get started. I could rant for hours on the subject.

[(Anonymous)]

same here anon. I loathe the movies while I love the books, and even though I keep my mouth shut about it, I get no end of frothing from movie fans like I'm committing some sin.

[(Anonymous)]

Ditto.

Or, to be fair, I love the LoTR books while I simply consider the movies to be a sadly missed opportunity.

The movie trilogy is visually spectacular and I admire the whole years-and-continent spanning enterprise, but it's a completely different interpretation of Tolkien's story, if not radically opposite, which in my opinion misses the whole point of the story while cutting down most of the uplifting moral in favor of Hollywood-type heroic grandstanding.

Too bad, because there will never be as much money, talent and effort spent into adapting this story to the big screen ever again...

Note: the matter is entirely different with A Game of Thrones which GRRM is writing to make money, first and foremost: a lot of his previous books were creative, original, poetic works which got next to no recognition outside of specialized SF/Fantasy circles, so I completely understand his deciding to write a sword and sorcery genre novel that would appeal to the widest possible public and be attractive for a TV adaptation.

I am glad he finally scored big time and I gather the TV adaptation is really good: but neither his books not the TV series pretends to be anything other than what it is.

There is no comparison with a seminal story like the Lord of the Rings and certainly no one gets all excited about how faithful the TV series is the the source material because no one is as emotionally invested in the GoT books as some of us were into the LoTR books.

[(Anonymous)]

LOL at your last sentence. There are a lot of people who are upset because the GoT series hasn't followed the books in the way that they would have liked. There have been arguments about it right here on F!S.

Also: the books are actually not attractive to most mainstream readers. They're dark and depressing and the minute you start to get attached to a character, GRRM kills him/her off. He also takes 5 to 6 years to write each one (and there are a lot of people who've given up on the series as a result of that). He's lucky it got picked up for TV, because otherwise, that's an absolutely terrible way to make money.

[(Anonymous)]

So, once upon a time, I worked at a bookstore, and ASOFAI was consistently on the bestseller list and sold out when new ones were released.

People like books with conflict where there's a real threat that the characters might not survive. It got a TV deal because it was popular.

I'd say he did a pretty damned good job at creating a cash cow franchise.