#pagemaster

[mixamcgee]

Have to get familiar with drawing this lovely gentleman... planning more content ;)

[glimmerkey]

Disney Adventures Magazine November 1994

[j-artle]

Guys, I finally finish it! Yeah, That took much time, but hey, here we are! XD

[rosemeriwether]

I think there’s a difference between a “favorite” movie and a “comfort” movie.

A movie can overlap into either but, if you’re looking for a particular feeling, your favorite movie may not give it like a comfort movie.

Example; a relationship comfort movie of mine is 500 Days of Summer vs. favorite movie Dead Poets Society.

My all purpose comfort movie would have to be The Pagemaster because I play the game of “how many book references can I find” every time I watch it.

I also like Midnight in Paris but that’s if I want to feel like shit about myself. Why I would want to feel that way beats me but dammit Hemingway! Why are his scenes the realest and most inspirational when I actually HATE HIS WORK???……. Because they’re real and feel like eternal high school drama? It’s probably because I’m an artist/writer by heart I get criticized while watching it.

[emeraldspiral]

This has been sitting in my drafts for 7 fucking months lol.

So I was just thinking that The Pagemaster is like, a prime example of a movie with a good premise but flawed execution which would actually be worthwhile to remake.

The fundamental issue with it is that it’s a MOVIE trying to promote reading, which it seems to be attempting to do by just showing you characters you could watch in an actual adaptation of the work they originate from. But also the main character’s arc is supposed to be learning that he needs to spend less time reading and go out and touch grass.

I think a good way to remake it would be to have the main character be someone who just doesn’t like reading. They think it’s boring and time-consuming and they prefer to just watch movies because they don’t respect the craft of writing.

 At the start they’re using movies, Wikipedia summaries, YouTube reviews, and TVTropes pages as a substitute for reading books for school, but when they get caught they’re forced to go to the library to actually read a book to do a report on. They get sucked into a literary fantasy world which has a magic system based on wordsmithing, and this is how you make the message actually work. Instead of just showing people things on screen and making them ask why they should read the book instead of finding a film adaptation, you show them the appeal of the language used to craft stories in a non-visual medium.

The way it would work is you’d use “magic words” to cast a spell that influences reality. But you don’t just say Latin-sounding phrases and shoot sparkles out of a wand. You have to write down exactly what you want to happen. When the main character tries to do this initially it doesn’t work because he just summarizes what he wants to happen. Like, he’s got two sidekicks who start bickering, and it annoys him so he writes “they stopped fighting and made up” but it has no effect. So he keeps trying until he realizes he has to actually write the dialog they have that ends the argument.

Over time he learns that the stronger his prose is, the stronger the magic. Bland, stage-direction-like writing is weak, but more reliable than trying to be more descriptive, but using the wrong words to convey the meaning he wants or arranging them with clunky flow. He learns from reading passages from other books and seeing other wordsmiths what good prose actually is and starts to get good at constructing sentences and paragraphs that have good flow and good word choices that convey what he really wants and it makes his magic more and more potent. At the story’s climax he composes a masterful passage powerful enough to resolve the main conflict. Having mastered the ability to express himself in writing, he is basically all-powerful within this world and can make anything happen. Naturally, learning how to write also helps him process feelings he didn’t know how to articulate before and he becomes more open, emotionally honest, and self-aware because of it. In the end, he returns to the real world, and maybe it was all a dream, or maybe it wasn’t. But his newfound appreciation for writing as an art form distinct from film is real. So he ends the movie happily checking out a bunch of books to enjoy and learn from as he hones his own newfound skills as a writer.

[heyyitsarwen]

A Track-By-Track Guide To 'Lost & Found' With Josh Cullen

Josh Cullen of SB19 personally takes Billboard Philippines behind each of the songs on his vulnerable and intimate debut solo album, Lost &

[catladychronicles]

[animaletras]

Escolhida pela Organização das Nações Unidas para a Educação, a Ciência e a Cultura (Unesco), dia 23 de Abril é comemorado o Dia Mundial do Livro.

Em questão de refletir sobre o ato de ler e homenagear a leitura, nenhuma animação fez tão bem quanto Pagemaster. A animação foi lançada em 1994 e conta a história de Richard Tyler (Macaulay Culkin), um menino extremamente auto-protetor cheio de medos e fobias que o impossibilitam de se relacionar com as pessoas em sua volta. Ao embarcar numa jornada tendo livros como seus companheiros numa terra onde os cenários são baseados em livros de fantasia, terror e aventura, nós juntos de Richard Tyler descobrimos que alguns arranhões fazem parte do processo de crescimento e de construção de identidade do jovem.

O filme consegue capturar muito bem a essência da leitura como instrumento social, uma leitura que nos faz interagir com narrativas que nos conscientiza e nos faz compreender o mundo e nosso lugar perante ele.

Já conheciam a animação? Comentem aqui pra gente o que acham dela!

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