#Good Movies as Old Books

[mossandfog]

Imagining Good Movies as Old Book Covers

Artist and designer Matt Stevens is clearly a movie lover. He’s also a talented and creative graphic designer. And thankfully, he has lent his talent to this project, which has immortalized great movies into vintage book covers. His impressive catalog runs the gamut, from modern classics like Mad Max: Fury Road to The Shawshank Redemption, to Back to the Future. The series is cleverly called…

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#Good Movies as Old Books #Matt Stevens #old books

[batcavescolony]

just saw someone say Rick Riordan making a TV show is just as bad as anything JKR has done. BFFR you're comparing Rick Riordan trying to make his world more inclusive, changing some parts because of money/time constraints, or just making changes cus he thinks they're needed, to JKR being a terrible person!

#and not to say Ricks work is perfect. ill be the firat to tell you his mistakes. his aspec rep is shit. his minorities rep has problems #he has general time line problems. im not says hes perfect but he tried from a good place #jkr named a character ChoChang. her Scottish character blow stuff up and tried to make alcohol. named a black character Shackelbolt #like damn get over yourself. #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson and the olympians #percy series #pjo series #pjo #pjo tv show #pjo tv series #pjo tv adaptation #if you wanna say shit about Rick ok. but be correct about it #how is he just as bad as jkr for not using the book he made in the early 2000s an exact script for the TV show being released in 2024? #and they yall had the audacity to be pissed when he didn't put a song about sex thats literally says `fuck her face° in the background of #LITERAL 12 YEAR OLDS in a place with memory altering properties..... thats whats you wanted. children getting high to a song about sex. #°oH bUt iN tHe mOvIe tHaT i WaTcHeD wHeN i waS tWeLvE' where the actors where like what 18? and weren't 12? that one? 🙄 #some of you are getting on my nerves. yes the show's pacing is eh really thats a reason to curisfy Rick Riordan? thats what you're deciding #this is the line? a tv show thats on its first season and is more accurate then the movies that came out? #good to know

[lyxchen]

Can everybody please read what the people who designed Rapunzel's tower for the Tangled movie wrote about all the drawings on the wall!!

Here is the text:

[As might be expected, Glen Keane is as interested in what's inside as what's outside."What's most interesting about the art direction is the inside of the tower. To me, that is Rapunzel's world, and the idea that this girl is making her walls go away by painting on them-I love that.

Visual development artist (and Glen Keane's daughter) Claire Keane continues, "We didn't want it to be just decorative. This is all of her subconscious desires and all of her conscious desires. When I started trying to figure out what she would paint and how she would paint, I started looking into medieval drawings, and also the way other artists work with interconnecting their objects-Rapunzel paints on the walls and she paints on her furniture and it's all connected. I was trying to come up with a new language for the way she would paint"

Claire Keane took a very personal approach to identifying Rapunzels art. "I started on the weekends, and in the mornings, and whenever I was at home, documenting my life in a sketchbook, and turning it into Rapunzel.

Cleaning up my house, putting away my clothes, separating the dirty from the clean. I'm singing while I'm doing it. That leads into this life-as-art thing, where everything Rapunzel is doing is another opportunity for art.

Nathan and Byron also wanted her to feel a little analytical, as if she's documenting things that she's discovering. So it's not just about her art, she's also learning things"

Glen Keane concludes, "Well, you start off when she was a little girl, she just started painting very simple childlike images on the wall. It progresses in maturity to where every square inch is painted. When we're starting the story, there is no room left on this wall any longer. Her next step has to be to go out."]

Like this is so lovely!!!! Especially the last part: "When we're starting the story, there is no room left on this wall any longer. Her next step has to be to go out." I love that so much!!!

#i adore all the 'the art of' books!!!! #they are so beautiful and really show how much work is put into those movies!!!! #like #just the fact that these people were taking the time to genuinely think about how rapunzels art style would have progressed as she got olde #and the things she'd be interested in drawing and painting #i love it so much #i'm gonna buy so many more of these books until i have ALL OF THEM #tangled #lea's random thoughts #i keep saying it #but tangled is one of my very favorite movies it is So Good!!!!!

[pinkgibbon]

obsessed w this movie recently

#this is a really really good movie to study artistically. composition and silhouettes and lighting/contrast. it has some good stuff #this guy has good shapes but i cant quite figure out how to draw his face #no country for old men #ncfom #anton chigurh #i gottaaa read the book !! #showed the traditional ones to my dad (which is weird i never show him my art) and he was like thats the guy from the little mermaid right. #and i was like what. um. ...no? who? #we went back and fourth for like 20 seconds b4 i realized he meant javier bardem was in the new little mermaid (which i didnt know!) #my art #fanart #no country for old men (2007)

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price and Mark Damon

The Fall of the House of Usher (1960) dir. Roger Corman

#vincent price #mark damon #the fall of the house of usher #fall of the house of usher #house of usher #edgar allan poe #roger Corman #i love this movie #its so good #vinny is perfect as per usual #and sexy as always #fuck #so hot #unf #horror #old horror movies #vintage #movie #actor #handsome #gif #gifs made by me #gif set #book

[toasts-httyd-hyperfixation]

Me: 'Hmm, do I draw hiccup too short? Like, I know canonically he's described as small and scrawny, but am i overexaggerating this? Fishlegs is 4'10 maybe i should put hiccup a bit closer to that, i dont want it to seem way out of place.......' Gustav Larson:

#why he so smallllllllllllllll #like i measured #snotlout is somewhere around 5'3/161 cm #using him as a reference gustav is like. 3'3/91cm #had anyone who worked on Rob/Dob *met* a 12 year old ya think? #or had they only seen babies and had to model gustav like ''oo ahh 12 thats like. 2 babies stacked right? ...yea its good we'll do that'' #desperately need to introduce him to the Trio #they can feel tall for once #They can see how everyone else feels around them #httyd books #httyd #how to train your dragon movies #how to train your dragon

[lowpolyshadow]

seeing if someone makes sonic a book enjoyer/reader or not is like such an easy litmus test of whether or not they Get him

#the answer is that YES he enjoys a good book he likes reading!!!! he's a lil book nerd #the adventures he can read about are sometimes as cool as the ones he gets to run through irl the storybook series is just both at once ok #there's a handful of things i read where like sonic is all 'i dont have the patience for that' or like another character roasts him for #not reading and it's like Okay. But Like That's Canonically Incorrect #sonic boom sonic i can believe is not a reader tho look at him. look at him #movie sonic i can believe is only a comic reader that's like an 11 year old but #game canon sonic is a booker lover there's a whole line in frontiers for it that never triggers probably #speaking

[himboraccoon]

the thing about adaptation discourse (specifically with pjo but this can apply to others i've seen) is that people fail to realize:

a) they are adapting it for a NEW audience. and

b) they are making it fresh for the ORIGINAL audience!

as much as people say they want a 99% accurate representation of a book to screen, be for real that would just be boring!!!! knowing every plot twist every turn every development would get tired sooo fast. by adding changes however minor or major to themes, plot, details, WHATEVER, it makes it fun while still keeping the heart of the thing! maybe i'm just an optimist but holy shit it's so fun to be taken on a whole new journey while still knowing where they'll end up, but being able to be surprised by what may happen to get there! i audibly gasp in delight when things happen that weren't in the books. i LIKE being surprised and falling in love with something all over again for new reasons. especially in a book to tv format, there's so much room to add, to develop, and to REdevelop aged out moments of the books!

tl;dr be kind to adaptations. just. just shhhh. it's okay. they can be good things on their own.

#percy jackson #pjo series #pjo tv show #fandom #book adaptation #tv adaptation #the maze runner was one of my favorite book series ever and believe me! i was a 12 year old who got hung up on inaccuracies #and it made me not like the movies when! they knew their audience! they kept the characterization and the things we loved about it #and made it translate to an action dystopian film of that era! things can be different and still be good

[vintage-tigre]

#hobbies #aesthetic #vintage #style #beauty #sex drugs and rock n roll #old school cool #90s movies #kate beckinsale #literature #good books #rock n roll #what are you into?

[whenthewallfell]

The lackluster romance and overemphasised 'love triangle' in The Hunger Games movies makes more sense when you frame it as Peeta's hijacked memories after the war.

Katniss being super cold towards him? The terrible cave scene? The emotionless 'I need you' on the beach? The general lack of chemistry between them? All the Gale angst?? Peeta's entire character being reduced to a damsel in distress and very much feeling like a spare part??? The totally weird and unsatisfying epilogue where the distance between them in the field is emphasised and something about the lighting and framing makes it feel like a Bad Ending????

boom hijacking it's all in his head

#meanwhile book Katniss is holding his face saying 'i am madly in love with you let us have fat and happy children and grow old together' #i may have implied this in my fic but idk if anyone noticed haha #idk it makes the movies more bearable #it's frustrating because technically they're good adaptations #except for all the important bits #like the whitewashing #and the cursed triangle #and the loss of the emotional core #obligatory no shade at the actors they did the best with what they had #the hunger games #everlark #rambles

[riddle-me-grits]

Movies I Wish Existed | The Secret History (1993)

“I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.”

#if an adaptation of this fucking book can't include young Philip Seymour Hoffman as Bunny then I do not want it #I'd really prefer James Spader as Charles honestly but he was veering much too old for the part #especially as Kidman's twin #so I went with Christian Slater because he is my beloved and I love when he plays preps that go feral #the secret history #richard papen #henry winter #bunny corcoran #francis abernathy #camilla macaulay #charles macaulay #movies i wish existed #because an adaptation of this book close to its actual release when Hollywood was in its prep school/academic hellscape peak #would've been so good #and by so good i mean extra as hell #dark academia #90s

[lolitafan1997]

How I feel when the alarm goes off every morning.

#lolita1997 #dolores haze #lolita movie #lolita #lolita novel #lolita1962 #dominique swain #dolly haze #coquette #lolita (1997) #good morning #lolitia #american lolita #old school lolita #lolita dress #lolita fashion #classic lolita #sweet lolita #lolita book #country lolita #lolitagirl #dolores my beloved #dolores #nymphett #sweet little nymph #coffee #sleepy #tired #im so tired #lolita 1997

[pitske]

"So watch me rise up Open the skies up And take the world by storm I'll flood the dry lands Low and highlands And take the world by storm Every inch of the land, every part of the sky Will be water when I transform it So watch me rise up Open the skies up And take the world by storm"

#dude it has been so long since I've heard a villain song THIS catchy #genuinely I loved this movie so much #the art is amazing and the characters too #I know the story of the Monkey King is an old one but it never gets old to me #I've seen a bunch of executions but I think this one's my favorite #granted it isn't the whole story but try to put the entire thing in one movie #AAAAAAAAAAAAH it is so good! #if you haven't yet check out the Monkey King on Netflix #The Dragon was such a good interesting villain honestly #a little goofy too and yes of course the movie itself's a little goofy but the characterisation and such is resonating to me #by the way can I just say that I am so sad they cut a part from “Take the World by Storm”? it is sooooooo catchy man #and yes granted my drawing here has very little to do with the movie but idc #also this has finally implored me to go out and purchase the book #the monkey king #netflix the monkey king #the dragon king #the monkey king netflix #the monkey king 2023 #the monkey king fanart #pitske’s art #pitskederdoenerhaendler #Spotify #digital art #dragon #dragon art

[misssclumsy]

Hey (with the intention of)

#little woman movie #laurie little women #little women #jo and laurie #jo x laurie #laurence anyways #jo march #freinds #i want friends #good friends #best friend #old friendships #friends #frienship #bookworld #book blog #hey with the intention #i want this type of life #desiblr #desi tag #desi culture #desi academia #desitags #desi things #desi stuff #desi tumblr #desiblogger #dark aesthetic #dark acamedia #desi

[galwithalibrarycard]

So I just watched the school for good and evil movie, mostly for Kit Young, and the two main girl characters essentially recreated the main story beats of the scene from beauty and the beast where belle’s love saves the beast, complete with a kiss on the lips, only to then reiterate that their love is “best friends only” AND I just went in the tag to find out that in the books these two girls are SIBLINGS?????? I think this is the most convoluted case of queer baiting I have ever experienced and my head is SPINNING netflix pls you’re going to give the kids watching this a COMPLEX

#WHAT did I just watch #the school for good and evil spoilers #I never read the books they came out long after I aged out of middle grade #I just like fairytales #and clearly the screenwriter/s wanted to make these girls a queer couple so just DO IT #what the actual fucj #so bad it’s hilarious #and the best part is up until that Freudian mess of an ending the rest of the movie was really pretty good #BAFFLING #don’t get me wrong I was bothered by the gender essentialism #and the equating of oldness and hooked noses with ugliness and evil #have we learned nothing with the ageism and antisemitism Hollywood????? #I am losing it someone laugh at the madness with me

[puppyeared]

save me old flipnote studio MVs.......

#im going thru old flipnotes i used to watch years ago and ouggghhg so many good ones #is twenty one pilots still popular.... do people still remember the TRNDSTTER and marble soda meme......... #its like im unlocking some sort of primal part of my brain and everything is coming back to me. one of my biggest inspirations as a kid #i still remember thinking the final transmission lyrics were the coolest thing and watching =TopHat= Bee and Melissa over and over #theres a very specific feeling of longing and nostalgia looking back and watching these again years later #especially when there isnt anything genshin or mcyt and instead its either fnaf undertale eddsworld or another obscure #interest... and not even fnaf sister location its like fnaf 3 and 2. its THAT old. and a lot of oc MVs especially pokemon ocs and furries.. #god but they were so creative u know. i still find it amazing ppl took this little lightbox animation on the fucking NINTENDO DS and #cranked it all the way to 11.. like if u look at the transitions and movement its so fucking fluid its insane..!! HOW DO YOU MAKE THE #CHARACTERS SPIN??? AND CHANGING CAMERA ANGLES??? and keep in mind youre doing this all with a shitty stylus #on a THREE BY TWO INCH SCREEN. you only get two layers you can go up to 29FPS and you only have 999 slides to work with #and 24FPS eats up a lot of that. absolutely insane it literally boggles my mind every time i think about it. AND SOME ARE EVEN FULL COLOR #i forgot how popular EDM was back then too...they were really good for timing beats though so you get a lot of MVs with #strobe last and marble soda. porter robinsons goodbye to a world was also popular with undertale and oc MVs. also a lot of vocaloid #someone made a flipnote abt the warner bros fnaf movie being announced EIGHT FUCKING YEARS AGO. it even used the stay calm audio from #the office.... i wonder how theyre doing now... i love you shitty grainy MV audio.. but i have mixed feelings abt the flashing colors #ppl LOVED animating the sans vs frisk fight. aishite and primadonna were also big ones they were SICK AS FUCK #lots of these inspired my old oc designs.. a lot of my characters had side bangs with one eye covered. animal ears and simple eyes too #now i kinda wanna try my hand at the marble soda meme cause i loved it as a kid lol.. i wonder if i should compare my old and new art here #UGHHHH IM SO NORMAL ABOUT NOSTALGIA. IM SO NORMAL ABT MY SCHOOL BOOK DRAWINGS WITH SHIBA BROWS #yapping #nostalgia