Books to Movies: Keeping Characters Together in The Two Towers, Good and Bad

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Since audiences invest in certain characters, keeping them together visually  makes sense.  In the book, Eowyn does not go to Helm's Dee...

Don't Give the Audience What It Thinks It Wants

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Re-post from 2011. I recently posted about ignorant characters. I point out problems with such characters. What I don't mention is how t...

The Ignorant Characters of E. Nesbit

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The ignorant character is the character who comments on the action without fully understanding it.  Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird closely ...

Celebrating Eugene Woodbury

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My oldest brother Eugene died at the beginning of this year. Today, June 8th, is his birthday.  Tributes to Eugene can be found on his blog:...
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All the Ms: How Deep Does Culture Go?

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In a previous post on the Ms (the list where I try out all the fiction books in the "M" section of the library-- try out as in, ...

Books to Movies: Two Towers, Sudden versus Gradual Change

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In the book, Theoden is aging, bad-tempered, and querulous. He is under a spell but the spell depends on the behavior and character of a goo...

Montgomery's Anne: Fallible and Fun

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I remark in another context that "Anne of Green Gables...is the Western answer [to the fallible female heroine]."  My point in the...

Ngaoi Marsh's Alleyn: The Character Who is Less Obnoxious than How He is Written

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Patrick Malahide as Alleyn*  My first encounter with Ngaoi Marsh's Golden Age mysteries was in college. Whenever I was about to fly ...

Joseph of Old: So Many Versions!

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I keep moving this post around. To what author should Joseph of Old be assigned?  I decided to assign him to "Mann" for Thomas Man...
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Rival Characters: The Good, the Bad, the Pointless

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Robin McKinley's Beauty in her seminal work Beauty brings up the issue of rivals. In the classic tale, Beauty's sisters are rivals ...

Give Characters Jobs: Numb3rs

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In a commentary on Numb3rs , Rob Morrow complains about shots that position an actor at one point in the room, just to have the actor  start...

Horse Rescue Day & Shadowfax

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The holiday refers to rescuing horses from slaughter. However, this post refers to a rescuing horse.  My father is a fan of Tolkien but not...

C.S. Lewis's Great Deity: Aslan

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  Righteous, purely good characters in fiction often come across as...eh. Their goodness becomes a mark of insipidity.   In general, fantas...

C.S. Lewis's Great Flawed Character: Edmund

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In her essay about Edmund, "King Edmund the Cute: Anatomy of a Girlhood Crush," Diane Peterfreund explains why Edmund is her fa...

Dean Stockwell's Kim and the New Childhood

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[In 2011], I read Kim by Rudyard Kipling for a bookclub and really enjoyed it. I then watched the 1950 film with Dean Stockwell and Errol F...
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Books to Movies: Two Towers and Where to Edit

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The Two Towers tackles what I consider one of the more interesting problems for films and texts: how does one divide up scenes?  All viewer...