Here's some bookish stuff for Monday:
- BBC Drama series website: Jane Eyre series extras like wallpaper and photo gallery.
- Backstory: Authors tell the backstories of their novels.
- Saw Charlotte's Web over the weekend. I remember reading it as a kid. What a sweet movie! Dakota Fanning is so precious.
- Also saw Stranger Than Fiction. Harold Crick is a 'taxman' who suddenly hears a woman narrating his life. Knowing he isn't crazy, he tries to track down the author of his life story before she kills him off. Will Ferrell was excellent as a sweet, shy man obsessed with numbers. Not his usual movie. I really enjoyed it.
Following that last item, here's a question. A lot of great works of fiction end with the hero/heroine dying. Did you think it was neccessary in every case? Is it overused? Did you ever feel tricked or cheated by the writer?
I too really enjoyed Stranger Than Fiction. I just finished up a little writing class and found it interesting that so many of the things we've been learning were brought out in this fun movie.
ReplyDeleteI usually get the sensation most when the ending ends up being that the person dreamed everything. I hate that.
ReplyDeleteAs for death... well not off the top of my head. Death of a relationship - the permanent kind - I DETEST THAT. I just read the milestone and at the end she cant confront him with the truth so kills everything and it just ends. I was definitely cheated.
I saw Stranger Than Fiction and it was very cute. I love Emma Thompson and my sister has a thing for Will Ferrell.
ReplyDeleteI dont' usually like the tragic love story, where somebody dies. I like my couples happily ever after (Anne and Gilbert), but, in the movie The English Patient, I 'got' the story and thought their tragic love was beautiful and heartbreaking.
Recently, I read a very long story and the girl dies suddenly at the end. I was peeved about it but knew the story was supposed to be a tradegy. I might have been mad if I didn't know that.
ReplyDeleteSuey- I loved those writing references, especially "little did he know."