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[green_queen]

I really fucking hate this assignment.

To be honest, I just think the Play Into Film people ask bad essay questions. I've realised that this one is as difficult as the last. They think they're clever but really they don't give you anywhere to go, and yet limit your freedom to explore the question. It's stupid.

I've got a little over 200 of 2000 words done. I'm going into uni tomorrow for about 4 hours to try and get the whole damn thing done then.

Today I sat for hours trying to do that, went to Hoyts but discovered they don't hold tickets and I couldn't buy enough for everybody, missed work because I was trying to work on this bloody essay (which I eventually deleted about 500 words of because it was crap) and eventually became completely apathetic and slumped in front of the TV watching Disney and Soundtrack Channel until Queer Eye came on and the family came home.

MIRIAM IS NOT A MAN! And if I see one more ad claiming she is I'm going to throw my cushion at the screen. I'm sick of it.

Andie! You Goonie!

Pics of the Day are PoA covers from around the globe, because there's nothing new around and I'm lazy.




In Catalan.


from Denmark.


from Finland, one of my favourites. Their Ron, Harry and Hermione are so perfectly bizarre-looking.


I have added the first three books in French on my Wish List at amazon.com and will buy them one day, so I can actually study French while having fun. Egads.


The German covers are my all-time favourites.


Iranian


Italy


My Japanese PoA has gone missing :( I know it's around *somewhere* but when Yumi was here (the homestay) Clare wanted to let her cheat and read the third book first because it was the only one I had in Japanese, so I hid it and now I can't find it.


In Dutch


I quite like the Russian ones, though their Hermione's a bit odd.


Spanish


and finally Swedish.

Fuck you Tom Stoppard
Green Queen

Comments

[snuffkin.livejournal.com]

I don´t like the german covers. Harry looks like a girl. But at least he wears cool clothes. The dutch one looks cool

[truffle-shuffle.livejournal.com]

Wow, I've never seen those before. Some of them are way way way better than the ones we get here in the US. I've never been a huge fan of our covers. But, um...yeah, when were there tigers in PoA? That Iranian cover is just weird.

Oh, and latest news on that Godawful Goonies sequel is that Richard Donner shot the whole idea down. They couldn't get a good script together, or the cast to commit, so they threw the whole thing out. Thank Gawd. I was getting ready to track Sean down and explain to him that a sequel was the worst thing they could do to honor Goonies.

[poor-choices.livejournal.com]

Can I fuck Tom Stoppard first? He's my hero.

[beannaithe.livejournal.com]

Russian Hermione is totally grabbing Harry's boob.

Despite that, I think that one's my favorite. The dementors in the bottom corner is a nice touch.

[(Anonymous)]

Fuck you Tom Stoppard

Hear hear, I'm also trying to direct one of his fucking plays. Yesterday I had a nervous breakdown and was allowed to go home from work because I couldn't stop crying cos I was so stressed about the essay and the play.

Second rant. THESE ESSAY QUESTIONS SUCK and are stupid.

Thirdly. The National University Drama Society is a big fucking pain in the neck and I will kill the fucker who decided that it would be a good idea to stage a play at the end of the exam period.

I just wanted to make those comments public. Didn't mean to put anger (and bad language) into your journal Katie. I don't think I'll make PoA again tonight, I need to sleep and eat chocolate and stew in my own anger.

Love Melissa

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

I particularly like the colours in the German ones, and they always do something a little different to all the other covers, which is nice.

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

It's nice artwork but it makes Harry and Hermione so couple-y on the front cover and they look kinda bitchy.

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

LOL okay.

I actually love R&G are dead, but I hate writing a bad essay on it.

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

The weirdest cover is one which has Harry in a mouse costume playing Chess with a giant mouse. I've forgotten which country it's for, it's from PoA. I might post it tonight.

Awww, he probably just wanted to hang out with all his old friends again.

[truffle-shuffle.livejournal.com]

Where did you find all the covers? I'm curious now about the covers of the other four books.

[poor-choices.livejournal.com]

Have you read The Invention of Love? It's my favorite of his plays. Definately a fangirl kind of play, because it has canon RPS, but also great for me because it's a Classics/poetry play too. And, of course, it's Stoppard, so it's witty and wonderful.

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

they're all at www.hogwarts-gallery.org

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

no but I'll definitely look into it.
ack. more than 900 words to go and I have to go to work in an hour. Somehow I don't think this essay will be finished today.

Unless you can tell me something about the faithfulness of the film to the play?

[truffle-shuffle.livejournal.com]

Awesome! Thanks! I'm going to go look now.

[poor-choices.livejournal.com]

I only watched the start of the film, but I didn't like it as much. I thought that the presentation of the coin flip wasn't as effective in the film as in the play, because by spreading it out more the events seemed more isolated. In the play, since the coin flips came one after another, it was more noticeable, but if I remember correctly, in the film the beginning was spaced out in such a way that they took longer and it lost much of its effect.

Woo?

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

I was so distracted by Gary Oldman being all cute and cuddly that I wasn't paying much attention to what was going on, actually. I thought there were some really funny moments but I don't think it worked as well as the play (which is what I'm talking about in my assingment.)

I hadn't read the play before I saw the film. I've read it now and I do think it would work better as a play--or directed by someone else as a film.

[poor-choices.livejournal.com]

I saw the play a while ago, and I've read it. I was too tired to watch the whole movie, but I didn't like it as much, even if Stoppard was the director. It works very well as a play, but watching the film, I actually felt like there was too much scenery. It seems like a sparser play, one that shouldn't have trees and horses and houses. It's hard to explain.