Moonacre, mostly
Feb. 15th, 2009 11:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jencatHaha, finally made it to the gym today!! Not that I've found several hundred excuses not to go for the past few weekends, but, ahem...
Otherwise today was mostly catching The Secret of Moonacre - minus any of the usual references to JK Rowling that adorn the cover of The Little White Horse. Probably because it's barely recognisable as an adaptation, but there you go... I mainly went to ogle the production design and steal costume ideas for my victoriana wannabe, for which it served its purpose nicely. Edwardian/Victoriana Steampunk gone mad? yes please! And Natasha McElhone being kooky with birdsnest hair? Fabulous stuff.
Shame somebody went mad in the editing suite and hacked out any notion of a logical plot or character development (yes, it would help greatly if the audience knew who the hell Robin was. Just saying.)
Should it bug me so much that they based the costume design for the 'baddies' on Clockwork Orange? I'm not sure, but they even had the voices sound 'Droogish' and it felt a little.. creepy for a kid's film - especially when they were pushing young girls around. Ack.
Plus, y'know, Tim Curry wearing what is indupitably a gimp mask all the way through. I rest my case...
Following on from which, there still isn't a DVD release for the 1989 adaptation of Joan Aiken's The Wolves of Willoughby Chase. And now I'm really hoping my copy of the book hasn't rotted away from being in storage for several years... it kinda shaped my reading tastes way back when, methinks.
Otherwise today was mostly catching The Secret of Moonacre - minus any of the usual references to JK Rowling that adorn the cover of The Little White Horse. Probably because it's barely recognisable as an adaptation, but there you go... I mainly went to ogle the production design and steal costume ideas for my victoriana wannabe, for which it served its purpose nicely. Edwardian/Victoriana Steampunk gone mad? yes please! And Natasha McElhone being kooky with birdsnest hair? Fabulous stuff.
Shame somebody went mad in the editing suite and hacked out any notion of a logical plot or character development (yes, it would help greatly if the audience knew who the hell Robin was. Just saying.)
Should it bug me so much that they based the costume design for the 'baddies' on Clockwork Orange? I'm not sure, but they even had the voices sound 'Droogish' and it felt a little.. creepy for a kid's film - especially when they were pushing young girls around. Ack.
Plus, y'know, Tim Curry wearing what is indupitably a gimp mask all the way through. I rest my case...
Following on from which, there still isn't a DVD release for the 1989 adaptation of Joan Aiken's The Wolves of Willoughby Chase. And now I'm really hoping my copy of the book hasn't rotted away from being in storage for several years... it kinda shaped my reading tastes way back when, methinks.
