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Mockingjay: Part 2 comes to theaters November 20th!
Posting this one early in case you haven’t read the whole series!
The movie follows the second half of Mockingjay, where Katniss [Jennifer Lawrence] and the citizens of District 13 continue their battle against the Capitol.
You should definitely read the whole series before checking out the movies! It can be found at your local bookstore, your local library, as an audiobook, or on Amazon.
Read it 1st!
Black Mass hits theaters September 18th and before it does, you should read the book it’s based on by the same title!
Childhood friends John Connolly [Joel Edgerton] and James Bulger [Johnny Depp] meet again later in life during the mid 70s. Only now, Connolly is a major player in the Boston FBI and Bulger has become a major play in the Irish Mob. Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neil’s book follows the true story of these men and the fallout that ensues.
Find the book and give it a read before you check it out in the theaters! It can be found at your local bookstore, your local library, as an audiobook, or on Amazon.
Read it 1st!
Coming to theaters on August 21st [in the US] is Z for Zachariah! In this book, Ann Burden [Margot Robbie] is completely alone in a world destroyed by nuclear war. After surviving for a year alone, smoke from a distant campfire shatters her world.
Find the book and give it a read before you check it out in the theaters! It can be found at your local bookstore, your local library, as an audiobook, or on Amazon.
Read it 1st!
In theaters now is the movie based on John Green’s Paper Towns!
“Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life–dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge–he follows.” [1]
Follow Q, played by Natt Wolff, as he chases down the mystery that Margo, Cara Delevingne, has become to him.
Check out the book before you hit the theaters! It can be found at your local bookstore, your local library, as an audiobook, or on Amazon. Give it a read and then join Q on his adventure to paper towns!
Read it 1st!
Making Book Lists (And Keeping Them)
Buzzfeed has made the connection between books and their cross-media transformations (amalgamations?) in the form of this list of 16 movies coming out, all inspired by books! The list reminded me of Hank Green's Read It 1st campaign from a few years back; I was quick to make a vow that I would not see a movie based on a book that I hadn't yet read (and then broke that promise when I realized that it was inconvenient--I do try!). I must say, however, that reading before viewing has a lot of advantages; with The Hunger Games, I was able to get more in-depth with the content; with Harry Potter, I got to watch highlights of what I read (in a sense); and how I boasted, having read Coraline three times, about what I knew was different.
I want to look at the way in which books are translated, condensed, visualized (or cinematized), and experienced, as movies. (Try writing sentences that make sense when loud conversations are going on--brain nonsense that I probably wont remember to edit later).
From this year's list, I have read Divergent (Veronica Roth), The Fault in Our Stars (John Green), The Giver (Lois Lowry), and most of Winter's Tale (Mark Helprin). I think I can make a goal of this, especially if I team up with my uncle who runs an annual review list of all the movies he saw.
NO. STOP. SERIOUSLY. STOP. IF YOU WANT TO WRITE EXPLOSIVE SEX SCENES, WRITE THEM IN YOUR OWN BOOKS. ENOUGH WITH REVAMPING AND REDOING AND RE-EVERYTHINGING EVERYTHING. JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT CREATIVE ENOUGH TO COME UP WITH YOUR OWN STORIES DOES NOT GIVE YOU THE JUSTIFICATION TO DO THIS. STOP. SERIOUSLY. GOD DAMNIT.
And it's not just the fact that they'll be desecrating classic literature. The fact is that, yes, some of these books are "sexually charged" in certain ways. But it's the SUBTLETY of it that makes them powerful! I'm not a prude in any way, and I believe that open and honest dialogue about sex and sexuality is a very good and healthy thing for society. But there is also such a thing as TACT. This is just another line on the mental list of proofs I have of society going downhill. The article is right, there probably IS a market for something like this. But in my opinion, there SHOULDN'T BE. Yes, Jane Austen was a "forward thinking" woman, but that doesn't mean she'd go ahead and write graphic sex scenes into her novels just because she could. WHAT IS WRONG WITH OUR SOCIETY. FUCK.
