{"id":3260,"date":"2005-02-28T23:46:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-28T23:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=3260"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:24:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:24:54","slug":"stupid-movies-and-editorial-contro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=3260","title":{"rendered":"Stupid Movies and Editorial Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Has anyone else seen the trailer for <em>Because of Winn-Dixie?<\/em> May I just say that I HATE movies where they digitally shift animal&#8217;s faces? &#8212; their expressions always look so completely stupid and anthropomorphic&#8230; Anyway, somewhere, Kate DiCamillo ought to be <em>wincing<\/em> because the movie people totally RUINED her book. The trailer emphasizes all this slapstick and goofiness out of what was really a very quiet, very sweet little book with a sneaky humor that didn&#8217;t bash you over the head. <em>That&#8217;s <\/em>what made it a good read. Why is it that we authors let movie people absolutely wreck our books? Ditto for last fall&#8217;s <em>Ella Enchanted<\/em> and I just can&#8217;t <em>wait<\/em> to see the whole <em>Traveling Pants<\/em> thing &#8212; (although I just didn&#8217;t really like the book either, so maybe that will make a difference?) &#8212; who are they going to get to play the ethnic-chick-with-big-butt the book talked about so much??? <\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I know, I know, I sound like an over sensitive movie purist, but really &#8212; sometimes it gets to the point where the character has differently colored HAIR than she did in the book. You know, the last really good book-into-movie morph I saw was <em>To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em> with Gregory Peck. (And no, I didn&#8217;t like the whole <em>Lord of the Rings<\/em> thing, either. And did anyone see the Lemony Snickett flick? I haven&#8217;t yet&#8230; Should I bother? Is it ANYTHING like the books?!)<\/p>\n<p>People, people, people! As I see it, we&#8217;ve got TWO jobs before us. One, write books, get published, get rich and famous, and two, retain some kind of artistic control over our famously published works.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, rant over. You may now go back to your keyboards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has anyone else seen the trailer for Because of Winn-Dixie? May I just say that I HATE movies where they digitally shift animal&#8217;s faces?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-3260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3276,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260\/revisions\/3276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}