Comments | madralaoi: Ursula K Leguin about the Earthsea TV version

madralaoi

Ursula K Leguin about the Earthsea TV version

Dec 16, 2004 10:47

http://trashotron.com/agony/columns/2004/12-15-04.htmRead more... )

Comments 5

sealwhiskers December 16 2004, 16:05:30 UTC

I saw the first part yesterday...and it sure wasn't EarthSea, and Ged sure isn't Ged. I wouldn't call it boring...(well, maybe if I didn't like fantasy at all, but for an Earth Sea lover it is a great disappointment.
One of the main tings I remember about the hero is his copper skin and jet black curly hair. Also, the magic from the books isn't there, they are trying to squeeze in years into months without doing a good job of it - like Peter Jackson and his crew actually did.
I'm still gonna see the second part...but the story is so altered, I don't look at it as a LeGuin story at all any more. Just generic fantasy, slightly better than the worst, but no more.

sealwhiskers December 16 2004, 16:07:12 UTC

I mean of course, that the hero in the books has copper skin etc etc. This hero in the film really sucks. I bet they casted him because he looks like Dominic Monagan. :/

captain_tiv December 16 2004, 18:31:10 UTC

Were Ged and Tenar somehow destined to be together to put the amulet back in one piece?

captain_tiv December 16 2004, 18:30:39 UTC

I've never read the books, so I have no idea what was changed. All I do know is that I was bored.

sealwhiskers December 16 2004, 18:54:48 UTC

Well...if you like fantasy literature that is not cliche and trite, but well written and serious, these books are among the best in the genre (and they are not even big and page-fat, like so much else!).
The story of Ged and Tenar is so extremely different from what I have seen in just the one part of tv-EarthSea I have watched, that the answer would be "no" - but I don't want to spoil anything if you do read the books.

As Ursula LeGuin says herself in the link Jennix posted, they kept some names and happenings, but the rest is all changed.