{ ＩＮＫＬＩＮＧＳ v.4 } A Thread For Writers

[ｔｓｕｙｕ ａｓｕｉ ♔]

Also, does it really make any sense that everyone in the Capitol would like watching kids kill each other?

It does to me, personally.
The idea like that in THG has been employed before -- Battle Royale anyone? So that doesn't really feel plotholey for me. Wrong and sadistic, yes. But necessarily bad in the grand scheme of the plot? Nah.

Then again, I've never read any THG book, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.

[watermelon.]

And the Hunger Games. Time for me to get really ranty. The first Hunger games book was good. The later ones felt like the author had no idea what they were doing and just knew they could make money off Hunger Games. Also, does it really make any sense that everyone in the Capitol would like watching kids kill each other? What the heck, people? And I've heard the hanging tree song on the radio, and I liked the tune I made up for it more, but I don't really think I get to complain about that. I do have to say though, the writing itself was pretty good. I seriously could not put any of those books down. Plus it made me realize that a lot of the books I liked the writing in were written it present tense, and made me try writing in present tense, which I now always do.

I just wanted to say something in response to this - so just bare with me
I was thinking when you said the part about everyone in the Capitol liking to watch, that maybe not EVERYONE did, you know?

Think about it. In the American Civil War- not everyone in the South practiced slavery, they just didn't mind it. It was how they grew up. So maybe the author of the Hunger Games had that in her head. The Hunger Games was an annual thing, and while people might not believe it, they let it happen because it's their social norm.
Maybe I'm just weird, relating it to other things, but that's how I think of it. It's the same with how we had our big problem with racial stuff. We still treated people of other races than us rudely, because it was how people learned to do it. They didn't know any better.

Okay that's all.. lol

[demonimpala67]

Oh my god... Movies of books drive me crazy sometimes. Eragon especially was HORRIBLE. You couldn't have done a worse job. That thing sucked. Brom looked nothing like the way he was described in the book, Saphira was just all wrong, what the heck did they do with Galbatorix, Arya looks nothing like the elf she is supposed to be in the movie, AND THE WHOLE PLOT WENT STRAIGHT OUT THE WINDOW! And that is only a few of my complaints.
*flips table*
Okay. I'm done now.

[Megaguirus]

*hops in on the conversation suddenly*

I feel you there, hachster. I HATE the Percy Jackson movies (I can't believe they made a sequel). Talk about destroying the original material. I hate the movie even more because it was what got me into the wonderful series. Mom and I saw the trailer for it, and when it said "based off the book" I was like "Yes, I must read the books". Yes, I am one of those who reads the books before the movie (or at least, tries to). Anyways, I read the books and then saw the movie, and it wasn't like I expected.

Actually, the reason that I dislike most of the "based on the book" movies is because the writer/director/whoever takes the elements they like, and makes it their own. Now that isn't horrible, I like certain adaptations, and have even wrote my own adaptations. However, there is a point where you take it so far away from its source material that it isn't even recognizable from the original story (*eyes go to some certain Disney movies *cough*JungleBook*cough*Frozen*cough*).

Anyways, I'll stop my rant here. I don't hate all adaptations of fairy tales and such (actually, I read a book recently that perfectly adapted the familiar story of Rumplestilskin), I just don't like the adaptations that take it too far.

[Woogwoo Wren]

Oh my god... Movies of books drive me crazy sometimes. Eragon especially was HORRIBLE. You couldn't have done a worse job. That thing sucked. Brom looked nothing like the way he was described in the book, Saphira was just all wrong, what the heck did they do with Galbatorix, Arya looks nothing like the elf she is supposed to be in the movie, AND THE WHOLE PLOT WENT STRAIGHT OUT THE WINDOW! And that is only a few of my complaints.
*flips table*
Okay. I'm done now.

I agree! Eragon was soooo bad! My brother and I watch it for the second time recently, and we spent the whole time saying what was wrong with it. They completely ruined Angela. I just wanted to hit my head against a brick wall!
Sorry, rant over now. XD.

I have no idea what y'all 'r talkin about.
(pardona, for some reason I had to write that, the way it is)

I'm with ya there. I haven't read hunger games, or any of those others.

[Dylan Klebold]

ooh guys i have a new story idea

don't know if i should delve deeper into it

kinda based off of a roleplay with rl friends

A group of five people - a medic, a first contact communicator, a pilot, a mechanic, and an ex-space marine - are called together by a space official to assist her and a ship in taking down a rogue AI spaceship that thinks that a war that has been over for years is still going on. They go, but fail. The group now has to go and destroy this ship.

owo;

[Asherwy]

tadashi - sounds real cool but not something that i would read >m<
you should go for it tho~

[elf_of_the_hollow]

Hello! So I was looking back through my old writing and I found this chunk of text. I remember this as my first attempt at any kind of adventure/fantasy story (although it didn't get very far) and since I've found it again I was just wondering if I should continue it. I want to a little bit (though probably after a complete redesign of the actual page part) but I have a protect right now that I'm pretty focused on and I feel like it could get in the way...

Anyway I have a question. Since this seemed to be a topic of discussion for a little bit there;

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[b]For movie adaptions of books, do you read the book first or see the movie first?[/b]

*answers own question* I generally try to read the book but occasionally I watch the movie beforehand. One of my friends said it's better that way because it won't ruin the magic of the movie and you'll see it for what it is not what the book was (so in other words; no more complaining about how different the movie is from the book when you watch the movie for the first time.)

[NopesaurusRexx]

For movie adaptions of books, do you read the book first or see the movie first?

I really don't have a preference. When I was young, my family taught me to look at then as separate entities. While a movie may be an adaptation of a book, I learned to see it as just a movie. Therefore I can watch a movie and read the book and I just don't get the same frustration other people do over them.

I tend to read the book first just so I can get my own picture in my head of what I get out of the book. Then I watch the movie and see what the writers and director took from the book. If I see the movie first then I will search out the book and read it.

[raey]

sorry for my recent inactivity...lot of stuff around my head atm so yeah

well anyway
I have to make a statement to this book and their movies discussion
One thing you all forget - and to be honest it's the one thing I always get annoyed with because I am very attached to movies or films in general... (please do not take this personal, really...)
Books are Books.
Movies are movies.
Never ever relate a movie to the book it is based of. Both are things that build up on a complete different status, you will never be able to compare a book with it's movie because they are two different kinds. A movie has the mission to make the people sit down for two hours and watch something. A book is something you experience on your own, your mind is creating their own images of the characters and the locations, you are carried away by the language. But filmmakers can only work with what they got. You will always have the problem that the characters never appear in the way you expected them to be, because you have to chose people that are really existing. The same with locations, you can only try to get the scenes as good as possible but since everyone is imagine them different they always will be different. But you have the music there, something you always miss with books.
And of course there happen to differences between the book and the movie because there sometimes isn't another way because you can't make a two hour film from a 600 pages book and do everything as it is said in it.
It is never right to judge a film by the book it is based it. A film still can be a really good movie even there are differences to the book. As I already said, a book is a book. A movie is a movie. It's like comparing apples with pears.
I hope I didn't hurt any feelings. I just had the urge to say this.