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heavenly_pearl) wrote2007-01-26 09:19 am
heavenly_pearl) wrote2007-01-26 09:19 am
Bridge to Terabithia
Every time I see the trailer for the new movie, a little bit of my childhood dies.
Come on, people, Bridge to Terabithia isn't some fantasy novel about two kids trying to save some mystical world from evil or whatever. It isn't The Chronicles of Narnia. In fact, even though it's been a while since I've read the book, I don't remember the book focusing all that much on what Jesse and Leslie did in their made-up kingdom of Terebithia (which was just that, made-up). I certainly can't remember much, other than they made themselves king and queen and I think the dog was the prince. The book focused a lot more on what happened in the "real" world and the friendship between Jesse and Leslie.
*sigh* I can't imagine a movie adaptation less faithful to book canon based on the way it is presented in the trailer. Maybe I'm wrong, and the trailer is just amazingly misleading, but... I don't think so.
Come on, people, Bridge to Terabithia isn't some fantasy novel about two kids trying to save some mystical world from evil or whatever. It isn't The Chronicles of Narnia. In fact, even though it's been a while since I've read the book, I don't remember the book focusing all that much on what Jesse and Leslie did in their made-up kingdom of Terebithia (which was just that, made-up). I certainly can't remember much, other than they made themselves king and queen and I think the dog was the prince. The book focused a lot more on what happened in the "real" world and the friendship between Jesse and Leslie.
*sigh* I can't imagine a movie adaptation less faithful to book canon based on the way it is presented in the trailer. Maybe I'm wrong, and the trailer is just amazingly misleading, but... I don't think so.
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Of course, it's possible that the trailers are misdirecting the audience. It could be a similar situation to Finding Neverland where while it was always clear that Neverland didn't exist, you would see it and other fantasy sequences as if they were real. It's possible the trailers are focusing on that to rope in more viewers, which will leave them with a nasty surprise come the ending.
I can't imagine Patterson allowing them to do too much damage to the book. She wrote it based on something that happened to her son - his best friend (a girl) was struck by lightning and died when he was eight or nine or something. Considering how personal it was, I can't imagine that she would let them bastardize it too badly.
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*stabs Disney*