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Chaos Walking in Midjourney Part 5 (I couldn’t decide which one of Todd I liked better, so have two 😊)

#chaos walking #chaos walking books #midjourney #ai art

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The Chaos Walking characters as InspiroBot’s randomly generated quotes part 4:

Todd:

Viola:

Davy:

Mayor Prentiss:

Mistress Coyle:

Ben:

Cillian:

Maddy:

Corinne:

Manchee:

Aaron:

Wilf:

Lee:

Bradley:

Simone:

The Return:

#checking back in to this lonely fandom #chaos walking #chaos walking books #inspirobot #ai generated

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More than anything I wish Patrick Ness would write an extended version of the Tiola kiss. How did Todd react? What did they talk about next? What happened??????

#i miss todd and viola every day #chaos walking #chaos walking books

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Midjourney AI rendition of Chaos Walking (part 4)

The New World:

The Knife of Never Letting Go:

(that thing in the middle of the first picture is supposed to be Manchee, I don’t know either)

The Ask and the Answer:

Monsters of Men:

Snowscape:

#chaos walking #midjourney #ai art #the new world #the knife of never letting go #the ask and the answer #monsters of men #snowscape #this series will never die #and snowscape is underrated

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PSA: The song “Crimson” by Skott is has big Todd/The Return energy. I want to see a movie trailer about how twisted their relationship is with this playing in the background.

#chaos walking #chaos walking books #todd hewitt #the return #1017 #crimson #skott

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MidJourney AI art part 3!

The church under the waterfall:

“If one of us falls, we all fall.”

The “Early One Morning” song:

“...the distant wordless chatter of woodland creatures getting on with their lives that ain’t got nothing to do with mine.” (TKoNLG pg 289):

“...another plain unrolls below us, the river tumbling down to meet it and then running thru it like a vein of silver thru a rock...” (TKoNLG pg 238 - the word “vein” was banned in the discord for some reason so I had to replace it with “streak” to make this. I could not decide which of the two pictures I liked better so you get both):

“I don’t know what’s ahead... I don’t know nothing about nothing but whatever it is, it’s gotta be better than what’s behind. It’s gotta be.” (TKoNLG pg 117):

The fork in the road:

The Sea of Thangs:

Thank you @leafy-girl​ and @if-one-of-us-falls​ for your suggestions! This has become my new favorite thing to do 😊

#chaos walking #chaos walking books #the knife of never letting go #midjourney #artificial intelligence art

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I want to keep making more of those MidJourney AI art pieces, does anyone have any ideas of quotes or specific moments/places from Chaos Walking that you’d like me to try?

#chaos walking #chaos walking books #midjourney #artificial intelligence art

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I caved, here’s part two of Chaos Walking prompts in the MidJourney discord bot for some more AI art pieces:

#chaos walking #chaos walking books #midjourney #artificial intelligence

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I threw some Chaos Walking prompts into the MidJourney discord bot and it came up with some really beautiful AI art pieces:

This last one came from “I am the circle and the circle is me”

#chaos walking #chaos walking books #midjourney #ai art #todd and viola #spackle army #noise #new world #i am the circle and the circle is me #i miss this fandom so much #i wish i could make more but unfortunately i was using a free trial

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Percy Jackson: I am the worst book to screen adaptation anyone has ever seen

Chaos Walking: Hold my beer

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ask and i will answer wink

#i am LIVING #look at my boy todd #this is so amazing!

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❗❗ Monsters of Men spoilers❗❗

Does anyone else ever wonder how Viola had Todd’s mother’s book at the end of Monsters of Men? I was sure that it was in Todd’s tent, and he never grabbed it before the river was released and destroyed everything. The only thing that makes sense to me is that the Mayor was hoping the river would be released and that he and Todd would already be at the ocean, so he may have grabbed it and put it on the scout ship so it would be safe. 

There are so many weird layers to how much the Mayor actually cares for Todd. None of them necessarily make him redeemable, but he definitely wasn’t lying when he said that Todd changed him.

#chaos walking #chaos walking books

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I’m just thinking about how Daisy Ridley announced forever ago that she did a film (referring to chaos walking) that was “not romantic,” and we all breathed a sigh of relief. And then Tom Holland went on to have the most obnoxious crush on Daisy’s character. Hollywood’s version of “not romantic” is still a one-sided romance. There would be nothing to their relationship in the movie if not for that. I’m still mad about it.

#not my tiola #chaos walking

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The Chaos Walking characters as InspiroBot’s randomly generated quotes part 3:

Todd:

Viola:

Davy:

Mayor Prentiss:

Mistress Coyle:

Ben:

Cillian:

Maddy:

Corinne:

Mayor Ledger:

Manchee:

Aaron:

Wilf:

Lee:

Bradley:

Simone:

The Return:

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when the airship arrived and there were three armies to the east west and south and the horns boomed and it sounded like god was asking for attention and I knew EXACTLY what was about to happen 

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full thoughts on the chaos walking movie? I want to hear more about it lol I haven’t seen it yet

it just...it felt like TKONLG but without EVERY GOOD PART, you know?

scene-wise, the closest individual scene we had to anything in the book was maybe the scene where Viola read Todd’s mother’s book to him? (even that wasn’t the same bc that was also the scene where we find out he’s illiterate, and he lets her read it right away, so there was no deep-rooted embarrassment about not being able to read). also it happened in Farbranch. BUT, like it captured the emotion of the OG scene a little, where Viola is reading to Todd and he’s hearing his ma’s words and getting emotional about it.

but all the stand-out scenes from the book, i.e. saying goodbye to Ben and Cillian, meeting the girl and getting hit in the head with a branch and bandaging her anyway, ALL of the Aaron fights, the bridge, the massacre of Farbranch, the song of Here, the Spackle, Todd’s illness, the waterfall scene, Haven, NONE of that was in the movie. so imagine all the really important and powerful moments gone

also all the overarching themes? those are gone too. todd becoming a man is  HUGE deal in the books. even in his horrible awful town he just wants to feel like he BELONGS and he’s the one person in the entire town being ostracized. two of the biggest secrets in Todd’s whole world are kept from him for the majority of the book because he’s “not yet a man”. it’s important to him. and once todd realizes the connection between Prentisstown maturity and murder, he spends the rest of that book WISHING he could be a killer. wishing he could have that kind of strength and seeing himself weak for not being able to kill. 

all of that?? gone. movie!Todd often chants the familiar “I am Todd Hewitt” (and sometimes “be a man”) when he’s nervous or trying to cover something in his Noise, and has a little tiff with Ben and Cillian at the beginning of the movie bc the Mayor sees Todd as a man while Ben and Cillian do not. (that’s a weird little bit though bc the movie never really explains why the Mayor had such an interest in Todd). but that’s about it in terms of coming-of-age material in the movie. and about murder. seeing as he doesn’t. kill. the. Spackle. let that sink in.

also like. the Noise is shown as a CONCEPT but not as a theme. the THEME of Noise is that, and I quote

“In this world of information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.”

or perhaps

“Knowing a man’s thoughts ain’t knowing a man.”

or even

“Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.”

in this movie, Noise would be described as like. a nuisance at worst and a superpower at best. you can hear most of every man’s thoughts in the movie, though not a constant, never ending stream. just just bits sporadically at either plot-convenient or comedic times. the Mayor (and at one point Ben, and at one point Todd) uses his Noise to construct illusions around people kind of similar to that Jake Gyllenhaal villain in Spiderman: Far From Home. 

but neither of these two main examples really SHOW the themes that Patrick Ness showed us in the books. that Noise is powerfully ANNOYING; that it can quickly break down relationships between groups of people; that it can be manipulated making large lies still possible.

like, remember when in the books, Todd and Viola get to Farbranch and poor Todd is absolutely GOBSMACKED that 1. the women are ALIVE and 2. the men and women are living together?? in harmony?? what the eff?? and you see Hildy in Tam’s Noise and just how much they genuinely love each other and Todd is like “damn we ain’t in Prentisstown anymore Manchee”. and you can just see based on the contrast that Prentisstown people are a whole different breed compared to the kindness of Farbranch?

in the movie Todd has a few moments of inner dialogue where he’s like “oh man that’s a woman. that’s nuts” and then we move on. his world should be turned upside down here and its not. and the difference between the two towns is that they kinda just made it seem like, yeah, Noise is annoying so we have the men sleep separately from the women so we all get a little peace, and it’s fine. that’s how Farbranch deals with it. it all just feels very blasé 

(i can’t remember specifically where this happens, probably either in Farbranch or cutting back to the Prentisstown men getting ready to march, but at some point a leader ends up saying something to a crowd of people and you can see how just one sentence spreads through an entire group of men and how they all start amplifying it and getting more and more panicked and i did think the mob mentality was cool. it reminded me of the beginning of The Ask and the Answer were the Mayor is addressing the citizens of Haven and you get that moment where the whole crowd flinches over the words of one man.)

and in all of this I’ve barely mentioned Viola. my wonderful girl. how they’ve massacred her story. god.

all of Viola’s development for the first half of the book is tanked from the start bc you SEE the crash, you see her stealing food from Ben and Cillian’s house (that’s the inciting incident of the movie), she talks to the Mayor in Prentisstown almost immediately after Todd finds her and his Noise helps everyone locate her, she talks to Todd a lot before getting to Farbranch after they escape Prentissown. the book does a LOT of work for Viola by having her mute and scared for the beginning and slowly showing how she comes to trust Todd. and how even after their incessent bickering in Farbranch they still choose to escape together because they know the army is after them specifically and they’re all the other has. that progression is really important in the book, as well as afterwards when we see how snarky Viola can actually be when speaking, how she thinks this entire planet is BACKWARDS and she can’t wait til her ship comes and shows them a thing or two about how to live.

movie Viola, well. she wants to find a way to communicate with her ship. she’s under the impression that since her scout ship crashed they’re gonna assume she’s dead and leave her behind. even though the Mayor brings up the settlers a lot after he learns about them, Viola curiously never really brings them up in any other context besides they need to come and get her. like it really made it sound like she planned on calling them, having them scoop her, and then they’d all just fucking leave, i guess. i don’t know what her end goal was besides CALLING HER PEOPLE which became the main point of the movie. the Mayor trying to find Todd and Viola so he could....use her to contact the ship?? that was also kind of unclear. and Viola trying to get to a communicator possibly so she could get the hell out of dodge. idk if that was her actual plan, but it was certainly what Todd was thinking, enough to where I was wondering if he was going to sabotage her mission in order to force her to stay (yeah. yeah. he had that energy about him and it was grosss)

and quickly, since all the animals couldn’t talk the way they do in the book, Manchee was more of a cute prop than anything. i could have gotten over it if he was useful in any way, but he never even like attacked a dude to save Todd or anything like that. so when he died it was sad on a dog-level but not a character level, since besides sitting next to Viola like twice while she cried he really added nothing to the story. also the shock of animal death was greatly reduced already since Todd’s horse that he used to escape Prentisstown from got a broken leg after he rode him off a cliff, so Todd used the knife (off-screen, thank god) to put him down. so Manchee getting killed was kind of lessened a little since my man Whiskey got nixed like 40 min earlier in the film.

this is getting long so I’ll cut it here since I’m gonna probably post about this a thousand more times. but yeah. if you watched it completely divorced from the books you would probably think “that was a cool concept but also what was the point of any of that” which is basically what most people thought based on the review headlines i’ve read. and if you are an avid book fan you’re gonna think you’re watching something else entirely.

#agree agree agree #this is the first time in my life i've almost walked out of a theater #i sat during the credits to see if there would be an end credits scene #then i realized i have better things to do and went home #i'm so sad about this movie