The Giver trailer 2 analysis

Anyone who has seen the first Giver trailer is pissed off.
But there's a second one.

Just because I'm really nice, here is the first Giver trailer:

I know. It's terrible. Here is the second one:

So, the first one was so absolutely terrible that I don't want to even begin to talk about it. I want to pretend it never existed. The second trailer is slightly better, but there are some things I would like to talk about.

In chronological order:

• It seems like after the first trailer, they said "Oh shit, guys. We gotta make it in black and white or else all of the people who want it to be loyal to the book will be pissed." So they went to a simple movie creator program and put a black and white filter on half of the movie. They should have done that to begin with, but it's better late than never. I'm glad that they did that, because it makes it more authentic and also makes it more enjoyable to watch.
• At 0:28, when Jonas says "Let's go," what the hell is that? That was not in the book. I have nothing against directors switching scenes around and leaving certain little things out, but you can't add in a whole other conflict. Because this shows that Jonas is yearning to leave his community, and he's not. Only at the end of the book does he realize how messed up everything is.
• 0:57. This is perfect. You go from black and white to color, and it looks like they're going to show the memories in a way that will be really fun to watch and will make sense. I like that.
• 1:00. Everything's in color now. That's not quite how it happens, but what they're trying to do is loyal to the book. Jonas starts to see more color after he receives these memories. This part shows that he sees everything in color, which means that 1:05 makes no sense. So, I'm not exactly sure how they're trying to execute this, but I'm hoping that they just switched those clips around to make the trailer make more sense and that the movie doesn't have a plot hole like that.
• 1:09. Okay. I get how the morning injections are supposed to be like the pills, but the pills were supposed to stop you from having naughty thoughts. So it shows a little girl getting her injection and it just makes you think . . . But I see that they're trying to turn the morning injection into a bigger conflict, to show that the society is very corrupt, but that will definitely change the movie, so I don't feel very good about that.
• 1:17. I know that in the book, Jonas skipped his pills. But I don't think he ever pressured anyone else into skipping their pills. And the redhead girl seems to be a larger part of the story in the movie. She was such a minor character in the book that I don't even remember her name.
• 1:22. WOAH WOAH. HOLD UP. They never kissed. Oh my gosh I KNEW they were going to do this in the movie. In the book, there was basically no relationship between Jonas and any girl. They were just friends, and Jonas thought she was kind of pretty, I suppose. But why, WHY ON EARTH are they kissing????!!!
• 1:28. What is happening in this trailer? Who is this woman? What? Was she even a character in the book? I get that she's supposed to be one of the elders, but I don't remember any of the elders getting the spotlight in the book. (Unless you count The Giver.)
• Still at 1:28. Sure, the whole "bringing up Jonas's activity" thing looks cool, but why? What? Did the directors of this movie just say "Let's piss off all of the people who actually had faith that this movie would be loyal to the book."
• 1:31. Seriously, who is this lady? Did I miss something in the book. I read it six months ago, and . . . I don't know.
• 1:40. Hey! That was like the big spoiler in the book! Why did they tell you in the trailer? I think it's because they're adding a whole other conflict in the movie. I feel like the end of the book will be the equivalent to the middle of the movie, which is why the directors are comfortable about giving away such a huge secret in the trailer. That begs the question: what are they adding to the movie?
• 1:59. What is happening?
• 2:02. Seriously? This girl is a MINOR CHARACTER. Why is she shown in the trailer almost more than Jonas?
• 2:16. What? Jonas never hurt anyone. Why? This book was genius! Why did Hollywood feel the need to screw it all up with clichéd action scenes and romance?
• 2:19. You didn't see but I just did that thing where you lift your hands from the keyboard and stretch out your fingers. For those of you who don't know, it means that you are so angry that you need to cool down before you even begin to type. Because there are many unkind words that I have to say right now, but I try to keep this blog relatively PG.
• Then the end of the trailer. WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
• And don't even get me started on the first trailer.

That's all I have to say.

Movie Adaptations: The Book Thief

**LEAVE IF YOU HAVE NOT READ THE BOOK THIEF AND SEEN THE MOVIE

So, I just watched this movie.

So, I made a little pre-watching-movie review: http://bookahooligans.blogspot.com/2014/06/before-viewing-book-thief-movie.html
In the review, I talked about some things I wanted to see in the movie, and my general expectations for the film. I wasn't expecting much. I was let down.

The movie definitely changed some parts of the book. Some of the changes were good. Like Death didn't spoil you that Rudy was going to die halfway through in the movie. There was more closure, but I live by the books, so any of the added closure in the movies, I just regard as fantasies.
But let's just talk about what they changed, because I can come up with infinitely many things:

• Max didn't write any books for Liesel. He only gave her a book with blank pages. None of his cute little stories like the one with the bird or The Word Shaker. I wanted a cute little animation of his books on the screen, just like they did in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and there was nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. I was immensely, IMMENSELY let down.
• Also, the movie didn't go into too much detail about Rudy's experience as a soldier or Hans's life. That was fine. I let that one slide, because I imagine that if I were helping to produce this movie, that would be one of the first things I cut. Those chapters bored me the most as well, so it wasn't much of a loss. I just think it would make it harder for people who have only seen the movie to understand everything, but the movie was still comprehensible without it.
• This one bugs me: the part where Liesel found Max in the "parade" was modified. She was searching for Max in the parade, but she never found him and they never exchanged their little words to each other.
• The Nazi that came into their house to inspect the basement felt like a really nice guy in the book. He acted nice, he was kind and caring towards Liesel, and I feel like this movie really antagonized him.
• When Rudy died, I was a million times more infuriated than sad. I didn't like this book much, but I still think that it's important for a movie to stay true to it. But Rudy got to say his last words to Liesel, which RUINED MY ENTIRE MOVIE WATCHING EXPERIENCE. NO!!! He was dead before, and in this alternate reality he gets to tell Liesel that he loves her? NO!!! I OBJECT!!!! I OBJECT!!!!
• And . . . . mmmmm. Right now I am punching the keyboard as I type and I'm seething. Because WOW. This . . .. .....   ,. . . ,.hbsdfyum70. Ahem . . ..In the book, Liesel only stole a few books. But in this movie, she only stole 3. In fact, she only received The Grave Digger's Handbook, a diary, The Dream Carrier, and The Invisible Man. Most of her complex relationship with the mayor's wife was excluded. That annoyed me eme eemmhsdhfs7 9yfe79mf y7s
• And Max never boxed Hitler.
• And Rudy's lemon hair was only added near the end. "Ah crap, guys. I just picked up this book and it turns out that Rudy has lemon hair. We should probably edit that in."

This movie didn't completely fail, though.

• Rosa was spot on, maybe better. I loved her character, she was the best part of the movie.
• The scene where Liesel punched someone in the face: fantastic.
• The Christmas scene: loved it.
• The scene where Mama stormed into Liesel's classroom: perfection.
• Jesse Owens scene: I'm just glad that was included.

The movie made me so mad after I finished watching it. The first 2/3 was good. The ending completely ruined everything for me. Nope. Hated HATED the movie.

Before Viewing The Book Thief Movie

Tonight, I am going to watch The Book Thief. I recently read the book and made a post about it here: http://bookahooligans.blogspot.com/2014/05/books-to-burnbook-talks-book-thief-by.html
Now, I didn't hate the book, as I stated in my review, but I didn't really enjoy my experience. It definitely expanded my reading into a different genre and intrigued me, but it is not an exciting book.

The Book Thief has beautiful language in it. Sure, in some cases, the sentences just made no sense. But most of the time, it was like reading a painting. I do not think that this will translate well on the screen. There wasn't a whole lot of astonishing dialogue in the book. It was mainly descriptions, and unless they figured out how to do justice to Death's narration on the screen, which would be amazing, I'm very wary of the movie.
I watched the trailer and I think I'm pretty satisfied with the casting, so there are no problems there. Besides the fact that the girl who plays Liesel is Canadian, and some of her speaking in the trailers sounded kind of overdone. But I think she'll do okay. I am worried that whoever acted as Rudy will not meet my expectations. Just because.
Now, this movie should be pretty hard to screw up. Percy Jackson was really easy to mess up, because there are lots of funny details that were in the book that were left out in the movie. However, this book has a pretty simple job: get all of the scenes where Liesel steals a book, get Max on the screen a lot, do one of those cool animation things for all of Max's books like they did in that one scene in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, get that one scene where Liesel punches someone in the face, and wrap it all up with one pretty little bow. That's all I want. I don't care if the 18th time that Mama made terrible soup is included in the movie.

I am looking forward to this movie because I think it's really easy to execute this movie well. Based on some of the reviews I read, I'm a little worried, but I think that they might be able to pull through.