Re: [LM_NET] New Movies...Old Favorites

[mchawkins <caughey195@YAHOO.COM>]

I am appalled at the passivity these new movies encourage in young people.   They 
are no longer required to exercise even their imaginations.  My students will watch 
anything on a TV screen (and believe it as well!!)  but are stumped and "bored"  by 
words that don't have pictures. 

 Every time we create pictures *for* a child,  he has less interest and ability in 
creating his own pictures.  Is there a person in the world who doesn't know that 
Harry Potter looks like Daniel Radcliffe?  Lucy?  Pippin? Even Ramona!

Good luck to us all, I say.

Meg Hawkins  MLS
Librarian
Darby Township School 1-8
Glenolden PA


caughey195@yahoo.com



----- Original Message ----
From: Julie Dahlhauser <juldahl@GMAIL.COM>
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Sent: Saturday, August 1, 2009 5:09:32 PM
Subject: Re: New Movies...Old Favorites

I came away from the WTWTA preview with a horrible image in my head--Maurice
Sendak's classic book in stores with a new cover: Some still photo from the
movie and a banner proclaiming: "Now a major motion picture!"

It seems as though all of these movies have high production values, but
something sad happens when a picture book becomes a movie. When Shrek came
out, I read the original William Steig book to my students, and they just
sat there and went, "That's it?" The quiet heart of the book/story
experience is cut out of it.

Julie Dahlhauser, librarian
Haywood High School
Brownsville, TN
juldahl@gmail.com

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Maddie Wood <mediamaddie@comcast.net>wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>  I went to the movie today and and while I was leaving I saw movies coming
> out of old favorite books:
>
> "Where the Wild Things Are"
> "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs"
> "Alice in Wonderland"
>
> Not to mention the "Cronicle of Narnia" series and "Harry Potter."  Having
> read all the books and series mentioned here, I am extremely disappointed
> that good books are now being made into movies that take the imagination,
> skill, discussion and fun out of reading books. Mr. Tumnus in the movie came
> no where near the one I had imagined so many years ago, and what a
> disappointment for me as a lover of books and reading.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Maddie Wood
> Teacher Librarian
> Lowry Elementary
> Denver, CO
> mediamaddie@comcast.net
>
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