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mrnoodle · 09-08-2006, 09:11 AM

There was a short series of books about the wild ponies on Chincoteague and how they had to swim across the bay to.....Assateague, I think? I haven't thought of these books in years, so I'm having a hard time remembering...

I loved em at the time though.

Griff · 09-08-2006, 09:15 AM

I read those all as a kid. Misty was made into a movie but I don't remember if it was any good.

Hoof Hearted · 09-08-2006, 09:15 AM

I was a branch librarian in CA before we moved and my branch served mostly child patrons from the grade school across the street, so we had a large collection of Young Adult and children's books.

Holes by Louis Sachar was a great book and made a wonderful movie. The major change between book~movie, was the main character in the book was overweight, and in the movie, he was not...though he was "soft". Great supporting cast, too.

Holes is a fave movie of mine and my husband's. There is a line a character repeats, saying "I can fix that..." ...and when I'm feeling down, that is what my hubby says to me.

I know, syrupy sweet, I'll move on...
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Griff · 09-08-2006, 09:17 AM

Nice mention! Holes worked both ways.

mrnoodle · 09-08-2006, 09:18 AM

Oh yeah! Thanks Griff.

Misty of Chincoteague

Were the books any good? I remember thinking so at the time.

Griff · 09-08-2006, 09:20 AM

I liked them a lot. My kids like them as well. We actually drove down to see the ponies.

Happy Monkey · 09-08-2006, 10:00 AM

We went to Chincoteague every summer for the beach when I was a wee lad.

09-08-2006, 10:25 AM

I wish I could let you guys hang out with movie executives for a while so you could get an idea of just how amazingly stupid 99.999% of them are.
The thing is that no matter how good the original story is they are incapable of fucking with it because they believe that by doing so they are making it "better"... the more they fuck with it, the "better" it is.
It never occurs to them that the reason that they are making it is that the original work has a fan base because it is good the way that it is... again, they are monumental idiots. That is all.

Sundae · 09-08-2006, 01:09 PM

Agree on Holes - read the book first, avoided the film until my parents decided to watch it last week. As a guest in their house I kept my lips zipped shut about the differences and did enjoy it.

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Originally Posted by rkzenrage

It never occurs to them that the reason that they are making it is that the original work has a fan base because it is good the way that it is... again, they are monumental idiots. That is all.

Of course I agree with that too. But I wonder sometimes if my high ideals of book-to-film come from the author's descriptions (cruel yet attractive, powerful presence, magical aura) and the subtleties available when you can read character's thoughts.

Shawnee123 · 09-08-2006, 01:26 PM

Back when MTV started out, I was about the only one in my high school class who was not impressed. My thinking was that it was "prefabricated imagination." I figured whatever images I came up with during a certain song were my own, and if I saw a video, to have to see their interpreted images from then on...it just seemed wrong.

Which, in some ways, reflects how I feel about books to movies. Movies cannot replace books, but yet I've seen so many great movies based on great books. To Kill A Mockingbird comes to mind first.

So I guess it can work both ways.

Griff · 09-08-2006, 01:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

Movies cannot replace books, but yet I've seen so many great movies based on great books. To Kill A Mockingbird comes to mind first.

Ha! That movie just arrived from netflix last night!

A most annoying rip off was the film version of Ludlum's Bourne Identity. I'm getting irritated right now just thinking of it. It isn't as if the story was high art but why throw away a good storyline?

xoxoxoBruce · 09-09-2006, 12:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

Back when MTV started out, I was about the only one in my high school class who was not impressed. My thinking was that it was "prefabricated imagination." I figured whatever images I came up with during a certain song were my own, and if I saw a video, to have to see their interpreted images from then on...it just seemed wrong.

YES!

Shawnee123 · 09-09-2006, 01:46 PM

http://www.tsl.pomona.edu/?page=life...=1622&issue=57

(Sorry, don't know how to turn the link into other words.)

wolf · 09-09-2006, 02:12 PM

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Originally Posted by mrnoodle

Oh yeah! Thanks Griff.

Misty of Chincoteague

Were the books any good? I remember thinking so at the time.

The books were fantastic. Misty of Chincoteague, Stormy Misty's Foal, and Sea Star Orphan of Chincoteague. I generally loved Marguerite Henry's books ... lots of good horse lore in there. The one about the Godolphin Arabian, King of the Wind, is good, so was Gaudenzia, Pride of the Palio. And Born to Trot. And About Horses. Treasure trove for horse crazy kids. The stories were always about more than the horses too ... like Santo Domingo: The Medicine Hat Stallion

I have never seen the movie about Misty, it hasn't been on television in a very long while. Seems to be available through Netflix

Tonchi · 09-09-2006, 08:17 PM

The book series I remember most from my childhood is Freddy the Pig, which was actually a generation old when I discovered them. These books were the most incredible blend of semi-adult adventure plots with characters a child could identify with. I read every one which was available in our majestic Victorian hometown library with wooden floors and high windows back in North Carolina of the 1950s. In those days, libraries were solemn and silent places, full of endless stacks of books which could open any place and time in the world to you and encourage you to use your imagination.

As far as I know, none of these books (26 in all according to the Freddy the Pig website) were made into movies. But these classics still have a rabid following even today, a time when children do not learn to read and use their imaginations, and more's the pity.

http://www.freddythepig.org/whowas.html

09-08-2006, 09:11 AM	#16
mrnoodle bent Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: under the weather Posts: 2,656	There was a short series of books about the wild ponies on Chincoteague and how they had to swim across the bay to.....Assateague, I think? I haven't thought of these books in years, so I'm having a hard time remembering... I loved em at the time though. __________________ Sìn a nall na cuaranan sin. -- Cha mhór is fheairrde thu iad, tha iad coltach ri cat air a dhathadh

09-08-2006, 09:15 AM	#17
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	I read those all as a kid. Misty was made into a movie but I don't remember if it was any good. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

09-08-2006, 09:15 AM	#18
Hoof Hearted ...you smell something? Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Monroe, GA Posts: 420	I was a branch librarian in CA before we moved and my branch served mostly child patrons from the grade school across the street, so we had a large collection of Young Adult and children's books. Holes by Louis Sachar was a great book and made a wonderful movie. The major change between book~movie, was the main character in the book was overweight, and in the movie, he was not...though he was "soft". Great supporting cast, too. Holes is a fave movie of mine and my husband's. There is a line a character repeats, saying "I can fix that..." ...and when I'm feeling down, that is what my hubby says to me. I know, syrupy sweet, I'll move on... hh __________________ I have the ability of single-minded determination and focu...Hey, look! A horse!

09-08-2006, 09:17 AM	#19
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Nice mention! Holes worked both ways. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

09-08-2006, 09:18 AM	#20
mrnoodle bent Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: under the weather Posts: 2,656	Oh yeah! Thanks Griff. Misty of Chincoteague Were the books any good? I remember thinking so at the time. __________________ Sìn a nall na cuaranan sin. -- Cha mhór is fheairrde thu iad, tha iad coltach ri cat air a dhathadh

09-08-2006, 09:20 AM	#21
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	I liked them a lot. My kids like them as well. We actually drove down to see the ponies. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

09-08-2006, 10:00 AM	#22
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	We went to Chincoteague every summer for the beach when I was a wee lad. __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

09-08-2006, 10:25 AM	#23
rkzenrage Guest Posts: n/a	I wish I could let you guys hang out with movie executives for a while so you could get an idea of just how amazingly stupid 99.999% of them are. The thing is that no matter how good the original story is they are incapable of fucking with it because they believe that by doing so they are making it "better"... the more they fuck with it, the "better" it is. It never occurs to them that the reason that they are making it is that the original work has a fan base because it is good the way that it is... again, they are monumental idiots. That is all.

09-08-2006, 01:26 PM	#25
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	Back when MTV started out, I was about the only one in my high school class who was not impressed. My thinking was that it was "prefabricated imagination." I figured whatever images I came up with during a certain song were my own, and if I saw a video, to have to see their interpreted images from then on...it just seemed wrong. Which, in some ways, reflects how I feel about books to movies. Movies cannot replace books, but yet I've seen so many great movies based on great books. To Kill A Mockingbird comes to mind first. So I guess it can work both ways. __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

09-09-2006, 01:46 PM	#28
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	Internet killed the video star http://www.tsl.pomona.edu/?page=life...=1622&issue=57 (Sorry, don't know how to turn the link into other words.) __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

09-09-2006, 08:17 PM	#30
Tonchi Victim of gravity Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Hiding in plain sight Posts: 1,412	The book series I remember most from my childhood is Freddy the Pig, which was actually a generation old when I discovered them. These books were the most incredible blend of semi-adult adventure plots with characters a child could identify with. I read every one which was available in our majestic Victorian hometown library with wooden floors and high windows back in North Carolina of the 1950s. In those days, libraries were solemn and silent places, full of endless stacks of books which could open any place and time in the world to you and encourage you to use your imagination. As far as I know, none of these books (26 in all according to the Freddy the Pig website) were made into movies. But these classics still have a rabid following even today, a time when children do not learn to read and use their imaginations, and more's the pity. http://www.freddythepig.org/whowas.html __________________ Everything you've ever heard about Fresno is true.

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