A Girl Named Liesl (and This Time It Has Nothing to Do with Mia Farrow)
Here's a very funny Slate.com article by Liesl Schillinger for anyone who read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe as a kid and wondered, as I (and the article's author) did, what the mysterious confection "Turkish delight" was. I completely forgot I had wondered that until I read the article. It's called "The Lion, the Witch, and the Really Foul Candy."
I loved that book, and a couple of the others in the Narnia series, but I remember my enjoyment diminishing after about the third one, and I never finished the series. I don't feel compelled to see the movie, for some reason -- partly because I'd rather preserve my childhood memory of the book. I'm also just not so into kids' movies -- even lush, apparently brilliantly made ones that adults are meant to enjoy as well.
Some movies that I personally think did good to great jobs of capturing the spirit of the source material, in no particular order: The Dead (from the James Joyce story), Sophie's Choice, The Sheltering Sky (a really underrated film), A Home at the End of the World, The Graduate. I read the last one years ago after seeing the movie for the first time -- I've since seen it multiple times, including part of it tonight at the gym, as a matter of fact! -- and the book could pass as practically a screenplay; I mean it's almost exactly, word for word, what's on the screen. Bizarre.
Fun factoid: The charming Germanic name Liesl has appeared twice in the span of two days in a blog that's barely a week old.
I loved that book, and a couple of the others in the Narnia series, but I remember my enjoyment diminishing after about the third one, and I never finished the series. I don't feel compelled to see the movie, for some reason -- partly because I'd rather preserve my childhood memory of the book. I'm also just not so into kids' movies -- even lush, apparently brilliantly made ones that adults are meant to enjoy as well.
Some movies that I personally think did good to great jobs of capturing the spirit of the source material, in no particular order: The Dead (from the James Joyce story), Sophie's Choice, The Sheltering Sky (a really underrated film), A Home at the End of the World, The Graduate. I read the last one years ago after seeing the movie for the first time -- I've since seen it multiple times, including part of it tonight at the gym, as a matter of fact! -- and the book could pass as practically a screenplay; I mean it's almost exactly, word for word, what's on the screen. Bizarre.
Fun factoid: The charming Germanic name Liesl has appeared twice in the span of two days in a blog that's barely a week old.
posted by Billy at 4:15 AM
3 Comments:
Perhaps you should do some sort of Liesl-themed tally ... "Liesls of the World"
fun times.
i love turkish delight.
is turkish delight a man named habib?
my vote for films that capture the book they are based on is the tin drum. also, i like the scorsese one that was based on the wharton book, what was that called?
The Age of Innocence. Thanks for voting! ;)
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