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whoslaurapalmer · 4 years

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alright guess who’s rolling in a smooth fifteen and a half years late with some 2004 movie takes because I just rewatched it

i mean we’ve all seen the 2004 movie none of the following words are going to be new or anything but it gave me something to do

-for the record, the last time I watched this was…..2016 or earlier???? I would put it on in the background sometimes because it was the only snicket media content available -but as referenced in my backstory post, I did indeed see it in 2004. -i BEGGED my parents to take me to see it. they did not. -we were out to a late lunch/early dinner right after it came out, and I kept grabbing my mom’s watch and telling her how far away we were from the next showing and since the restaurant was so close to the movie theater that we could definitely make it in time. -we still did not go. -but, as per the post, one of my best friends had a birthday party where we all went to the movies to see it. -probably because our librarian had read us the bad beginning, but my class was SUPER into the series. there was one kid who wrote all his creative writing assignments in lemony’s style. -i wonder if he’s still into the series……..

-you know all this time later I still don’t know how I feel about the littlest elf. how do people feel about the littlest elf?? like props for pulling an unauto reference but……...littlest elf -but I did just notice one of the elves is holding a SHOTGUN

-okay the feel to this though. like…..god the aesthetic is so good in this movie -the gears and the clocktower and the fog and that beach and just…….fuck -oh no my mind is spinning. like I know this isn’t the reason but those trees poking out of the water is just giving me massive ‘clusterous forest after it presumably flooded’ vibes -i think the movie, for all it fails re: most of the emotions, really gives a sense of emptiness and loneliness though, the city and the landscape feel small and contained -i like jude law’s voice and I like what they did with lemony in this movie but I love and will always love patrick warburton. -the spyglass doesn’t work here either because it never got the chance to pan out because there was only one movie and it’s still too early and forcing it right away because there’s no timeeeeeee

-i like jim carrey a lot better when he’s not being, jim carrey -you know what I mean???? -like he’s so good in eternal sunshine, I love eternal sunshine -like I like nph a lot as olaf but I also feel…..it’s very nph. like I don’t look at carrey’s olaf and think ‘that’s 100% olaf’ but I don’t look at nph’s olaf and think ‘that’s 100% olaf’ EITHER there’s something still very much of the actor about both their interpretations as if they both leaned too much into the absurdity that was in olaf (carrey acting for the troupe and like 80% of his mannerisms in the movie, nph in slippery slope and the musical numbers) but not hard enough into what made olaf olaf -idk -i think they both had really good menacing!olaf moments though – nph in hostile hospital, carrey threatening violet at the end, those are ones that still really stand out to me, and that’s really important to olaf’s character, he was a villain and he wasn’t always that smart but he was capable of such cruelty just as much as absurdity -but not enough for me to look at either and say ‘that hit everything I wanted someone to hit in olaf’ -and it’s not even a matter of them downplaying the cruelty to hit you with it later for mood whiplash or anything, there wasn’t enough of all the parts of olaf to give that whiplash

-i have nothing to say about the troupe I just don’t even want to go there

-i’m getting ahead of myself here in the movie but like, we all know that klaus takes a lot of violet’s moments in this movie, especially her biggest one in the marvelous marriage climax, and thinking about that makes me mad about all the netflix moments in s3 where klaus did more than violet too, and now I’m like, really incredulous that that happened in netflix too

-the lil fort scene has always stuck in my mind ever since I was a kid

-weird props to the movie for having their names on the custody document as ‘sunny, klaus, and violet’

-‘last chance superette’ okay well that’s something

-the car and the train has also been something that stuck with me a lot -like…….i actually really like this scene a lot and I’m trying to, explain why -it’s a really scary scene!! there’s a lot of tension and I appreciate that a lot!! it’s not canon but it’s remarkably well done and I think it honestly fits really well, it’s something olaf would do, and the fact that poe is upset because sunny was driving and not that olaf wanted to kill them, that’s, at least there’s that -(i really like the books pulling out when klaus remembers something too) -like I really don’t know why but I like it framed like this. I LIKE the movie framed like this. that they get taken away from olaf so quickly by something so absurd that isn’t why they should be taken away but wind up in his hands again at the end and then they get away again and typing it out makes it sound so….repetitive and stupid and like it doesn’t make sense but idk. idk!!!! there is something about it I like -like repetitive for the movie, because it’s, contained as itself as one movie, but, maybe a little close to the books -hmmmmm -still can’t word this right -i guess just, in terms of the movie!canon, it was styled well, for how the movie was structured -(of course it falls apart when klaus has to do violet’s stuff at the end of the movie that just fucks it all up. but right here. I did like it.)

-the movie’s “there’s always something” vs netflix’s “i’m gonna fix this”……….both are good

-monty brought the strongest vfd vibes in this movie didn’t he re: spyglass, lost his wife in a fire, violet remembering the song monty sings -i’ve said this before and this is completely unrelated but I don’t think going to peru was intended as a vfd recruiting thing -oh no wait this is very related, here??? in the movie???? “we’ll be among people who understand us” who value clever children or whatever, oh yeah movie!monty was gonna do it -(i need to think more about monty re: vfd and his experiences because, there’s a lot of possibilities here, honestly, and I think because we don’t see monty in atwq and he’s so early in the series proper that I don’t consider him in vfd and what that meant for him as much as I should)

-both versions of like the physical reptile room inspire such adventure and excitement……….i love that….those big windows and all the reptiles…….

-the sanctuary theme would be better in a different movie because like, the series isn’t about ‘sanctuary’ per se -it’s about something close to that but not ‘sanctuary’ for sure, like that’s such a weak, barely skimming the surface reading of the themes

-you know???? netflix!gustav was good. -like I don’t want to just compare the movie to the netflix show the whole time you know because they ARE separate entities although based on the same source and just have completely different takes and for both some of those takes were good and some of them were bad, but I never did like that image of gustav -i did like the dart in netflix though. a one good moment…. -(it’s also hard to compare them because 1-3 is all we got with the movie and 1-4 were some of the only books solidly done by netflix)

-klaus saying “everything happens for a reason” that’s never been a favorite saying of mine

-“it is a curious thing, the death of a loved one” is a line that’s pained me so much the older I’ve gotten and I care about it a lot because it’s so true, and I think it works better as narration than josephine saying it (I thought it was out of character for her to say it in netflix actually) BUT I ALSO get so pissed that the movie leaves out “as your mind tries to adjust to the way things are now” or however the rest of the quote goes

-reptile room in netflix after monty dies though is real top-notch and I love it a lot, this one is just, it’s decent but it’s rushed -i could say that about the whole movie, it’s decent but it’s rushed -the thing about the movie though is that like. it hits the major overall notes of the plot of each book just in a very quick and short and therefore low-key manner and because it’s a movie and an hour 48 minutes and they have to rush so netflix, spacing it out in two episodes, had more time and could do it better -and yet. at the same time. -we all know that one of my top complaints about the netflix show is that they too rushed a lot of scenes that I think should have been slower, that were slower in the books -and it’s not like I think the movie did a better job. because the movie fails in a lot of ways, and doesn’t go anywhere into the trauma or any of the real sadness -and even though it fails like that and cuts so much short. there are moments where I think it works better -and I’m trying to tell myself this isn’t just because I’m still living the ‘incredibly outraged at netflix even now, especially lately’ life and I’m not just picking one over the other because I don’t want to -and I’m trying to think of a moment more than just the letter at the end that the movie gave time to the kids to feel something and I can’t (and I can’t count the letter because it’s, the letter) but -i do think the movie let things stretch for even a second longer -it could be the aesthetic because I love the aesthetic of the movie a lot -i don’t know I think….both of them have strengths, netflix had more time but the movie hit a closer aesthetic, at least to me -and netflix didn’t USE that time, is what I’m getting at, and somehow the movie had just a tinier bit more time even though it was shorter, but that probably is just because, the aesthetic, I am a sucker for it -i think this part has something to do with my feelings about netflix’s vfd subplot, that’s probably, where this is coming from, and sometimes I think the clothing and the scenery in the netflix show especially in s1 was very colorful which is fine really that’s such a petty thing to dislike

-“doesn’t it strike you as odd that none of our relatives are related to us?” is still top notch

-although josephine has the pictures I still think monty does have the stronger vfd vibes. -i love the way that window curtain opens!! fucking terrifying!!!!! -i think of jane lynch turning around and saying “is this a bad time?” even now that’s still hilarious

-okay this is it. -this is really truly the one thing the movie did better than the netflix show, and a lot of people feel the same way about this -hurricane herman. -(it was so…….kidsy and kind of charming in the show. and even in the books it wasn’t charming. it was a lot shorter, but not charming.) -like this is legitimately terrifying and how all josephine’s fears come true is one of the most PERFECT things -don’t TEMPT me by saying “[ike] was investigating fires” because I don’t have the time to have ike thoughts right now because that almost lines up with a wip I have, so fuck you -(when I fell asleep to this movie the other day I thought to myself ‘gee hope I don’t wake up during the hurricane scene’ I did in fact wake up then and had to turn the volume down.)

-i think when it was 2004 and I was watching this in the theater I did not watch the leeches, ten year old!me wasn’t having it -there’s a lot of fear in this movie, I’ll say that though, it doesn’t hit the sadness but it hits some of the fear

-here we go, back to bad beginning content -“and what about what I want?” he got the creepiness really good though ugggggg

-okay as many things as I think are not okay but decent in this movie, f u c k y o u for giving klaus the grappling hook and rescuing sunny!! fuck you for having him burn the paper and not letting violet do the left-handed thing!!! why even change that????? why e v e n there’s no reason to change it -how dare olaf say “rapscallion” in this that’s one of my favorite words -god the soundtrack was so good though………... -“right hand please” yeah I will slap you -klaus is the only one who gets these sad flashbacks god movie I was giving you, some, benefit, of the doubt, watching this as an adult, until this part, when I just, nah man -“these children tried to tell you but you didn’t listen” this is NOT the speech for OLAF to give -movie you were doing okay but you just REALLY fell apart here. none of this is okay -even the ‘these happy things happened! no they did not because the world doesn’t work that way’ falls flat against how lemony would say that in the books, seeing it ruins it -it actually reminds me of the ‘look at all these side characters having happy endings’ in s3 though

-i did always like this scene too though. where they go back to the mansion at the end -i liked the staircase, too. -i will say, there is something….very emotional, about finding something from a loved one, after they’re gone, that you didn’t know they did for you, or that they did at all, and to find it so suddenly. I think the spirit behind the letter in general, not the content and not the weird optimistic ending it leads to, but just the spirit of the letter, is close to violet and klaus and sunny reminiscing on their parents in the books

-the movie was before the beatrice letters but, lemony hanging out in a clocktower with these pigeons and bea’s letter having been delivered by pigeons…….

-ultimately, yes. it was decent, but rushed. -it wasn’t as ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE as I remember saying it was a few years ago, if I think about it as a self-contained sort of thing, there were some things I liked or appreciated, the costumes and the scenery and the soundtrack fit my mental image of the books -although you know what???? you know something i did not consider until the movie was over??? that could just be, I DID see the movie when I was first reading the books as a kid and it may have just stuck with me as The Image I Had And Sometimes Still Do For Parts Of The Books, huh -but in terms of how it translated the books, like if I think about 1-3 and what they contain, on more than just a surface level of going through plot beats, yeah, it failed hard, and missed the mark a lot -the last like half hour made me a lot more pissed than ever, though, ugggg -i’d put it on in the background again, though.

#lulu talks about the sad lemon man

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badlydrawndrawnings · 5 years

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The Mystery of the ASOUE Film VFD Group Photos

With Netflix’s A Series of Unfortunate Events finished, I figure I should talk about the movie. To be specific, the VFD photos.

Knowing the movie tried to bring in elements of the later books into the movie to connect any future sequels, fall flat. VFD isn’t explore at all and unnamed (unless you paused right at the part where Movie!Klaus finds the spyglass). While Movie!Klaus thinks it’s a club, knowing now that’s actually Netflix!VFD puts Movie!VFD as...well a mystery. Still, I spend much time trying to find a clearer version of the photos online but I keep on getting nothing or get the Netflix VFD photo (why). Also, I say group photos because Movie!Lemony’s photo is different, believe it or not.

I ended up watching the movie and managed to snatch a few photos that aren’t blurry. Now that I can see (almost) everyone faces, this is the movie version of VFD:

Top: Man in Jacket that looks like Jude Law but on second glance isn’t, and Blurred Face Man who may or may not fall

Middle: Between The Anwhistle and Beatrice and Bertrand (I say this because these two are focus in Movie!Lemony’s picture frame/case) is Hugging Couple. Woman in the Stripes Dress is between Bertrand and Blurred Face Man. In Lemony’s photo, the middle row has Blurred Face Man with a clearer face (still hard to make out the details), and he is directly right next to Bertrand (the background shows it).

Bottom: Monty and a Very Giddy Woman who is actually leaning on him but it got cut off during the process of taking the photo, Man with No Mustache, and Man with Mustache

I know the most likely answer is that everyone not Beatrice, Bertrand, Ike, Josephine, and Monty are bit characters for filler and I should move on and not think them over. The thing is, Netflix photo-shop/re-shot Bertrand (seriously I didn’t realize the old ‘Bertrand’ didn’t have glasses and less of a hairline until I was looking through the tags and a comparison was made), a thought struck me: Was the film going to something similar, replacing the old actors with new ones if it managed to get sequels, meaning these bit characters are ‘canon’ characters (in marks because we’ll never know for sure)? Is there a reasoning to why Movie!Lemony’s photo is so different that it serves a purpose?

Well, first we got to consider what books were published at the time. The movie was filming during Fall of 2003- May 2004, getting release in December 2004. The book release of The Grim Grotto is September 2004. The Slippery Slope was published in September 2003 though, meaning the Grim Grotto was most likely being written during the time of the movie. It’s most likely the books used as reference is up to The Slippery Slope (Daniel Handler doesn’t strike me as the type who would have let details of a book not yet published into the film). The Unauthorized Autobiography will be included as it’s published in 2002.

Very Giddy Woman may be the easiest to ID. She is leaning onto Monty (with straighter hair than the Reptile Room section by the way), and they look like a couple. Since Beatrice is letting Bertrand hug her without any complaint and there is no (possibly*) Lemony in sight, those two were a couple when the photo is taken. As Movie!Monty stated he had a family and they’re dead, Very Giddy Woman is most likely Movie!Monty Late Wife ,who death happen after Beatrice and Bertrand got together (aka, this photo).

Hugging Couple is weird. Had The Grimm Grotto been published, I could say the couple could be Captain Widdershins and Fiona’s Mother, or Gregor Anwhistle getting a wife (with my money betting on this, especially as they’re directly between the two, and the man is closer to Ike and Josephine), like Movie!Monty. This one is 50/50 chance of them being bit characters or actually part of the canon. How they can be part canon? They can be ‘canon’ if they are in fact ‘Movie!’Cheese-making Couple at the Valorous Farms Dairy/Prospero Couple (I always thought they were one and the same). They’re the only related VFD couple, not to mention an old couple (page 155 in my paperback shows an old couple picture), and maybe the filmmakers went ‘we’ll give them a bigger role’.

Man with no Mustache and Man with Mustache are also weird. Their strange similar clothing scheme makes me think they’re brothers. We know in the Unauthorized Autobiography Gustav has sister (film could change sister to brother), but we already seen Movie!Gustav as the man tied up to a train. I did play with the possibility one of them is Hector (since he is implied to be a VFD member in the UA) getting a sibling exclusively made for the movie, but I honestly think these two are bit characters that are unimportant.

Now we get to the root of problems. In regards to Man in Jacket that looks like Jude Law but on second glance isn’t, I thought he may be ‘Movie!’Jacques Snicket. However, Lemony’s photo of the middle row is different. It could be a mistake on the film makers part. Or, it’s possible there’s two versions of the group photo, and the movie deliberately has Lemony with the reject/discard version. And at this point, Beatrice isn’t confirm to be the Baudelaire Mother yet. Yet here she is, focus alongside Bertrand and Blurred Man face. I assume Movie!Lemony has them both as a reminder of his tale of the Baudelaires (or assume the filmmakers took a shot in the dark). But why is included Blurred Man Face? Couldn’t Movie!Lemony fold the photo in a way to exclude him if he just wanted to look at the parents?

In fact, had the photo been like Josephine (meaning we should see the happy couple and surrounding arms), this problem could be avoided. This is where everything is a stretch, but I think Blurred Face Man may be ‘Movie!’Jacques Snicket. Movie!Lemony happen to have a discarded version of the photo because Jacques is either dead at this point or MIA, and he wants to see them all again. Therefore, if I push this logic further, the Woman with the Stripes Dress is ‘Movie!’Kit Snicket. While Kit’s name isn’t mention until later on, the fact she does exist at this point means this could the have been the filmmaker’s way of getting all the siblings in. Also, note she’s closer to Blurred Face Man than to Bertrand (assuming characters at bottom row are brothers, siblings have be to in close proximity in photos). Due to her position, Lemony can’t see her and to his knowledge, she’s still alive.

That means the Man in Jacket that looks like Jude Law but on second glance is just another bit character. I admit in his position, he’s towering over everyone else. While Josephine’s states in the movie Monty, Ike, and Beatrice and Bertrand were the ‘leaders’ (wtf does that mean?), I get the impression this guy was the original ‘leader’ until he died, forcing others to pick up the slack.

While I know realistically what I wrote is just me pulling stuff out of a tinfoil hat as the obvious choice is everyone sans the known canon characters are bit character made for filler (well, I think my assumption of Very Giddy Woman could be right since why else Movie!Monty bring her up), it’s still fun to see how this photo could have potentially tried to put seeds of the later books characters.

*I actually had two theories thinking Lemony is in the photos, but in the process of making this post I debunked them. Theory One was that Man in Jacket is Lemony, Blurred Face is ‘Jacques’ and Woman with the Stripes Dress is ‘Kit’. However, looking at Movie!Lemony with the screen brightness up enough to see his face and searching photos of Jude Law between 2003-2004 shows it’s not him. Theory Two was that Blurred Face Man is Lemony, Man in Jacket is ‘Jacques’, and Woman with the Stripes Dress is ‘Kit’, and his photo is a reject photo, and he has it as a reminder (and assuming the movie guess right, of his beloved Beatrice). Of course, the issues here is Blurred Face Man’s face himself: What we got of him also doesn’t look like Jude Law. The biggest issue is that the photo makes Beatrice and Bertrand a clear couple at this point. I know the Hostile Hospital has a similar thing with Jacques, Lemony, Beatrice, and Bertrand, but since that’s the order of them in photo, Lemony and Beatrice were the couple at the time. Wouldn’t it make more sense if Lemony was on the other side of Beatrice at least? This last point debunks both theories at the same time.

#asoue #a series of unfortunate events #beatrice baudelaire #bertrand baudelaire #josephine anwhistle #montgomery montgomery #isaac anwhistle #the unauthorized autobiography #this is a text post

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summerb4jc · 5 years

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A Review (With Spoilers™)!

I read The Bad Beginning for the first time in third grade.

Well, technically my third grade teacher served as my reader, a term which here means “an adult who read The Bad Beginning aloud to the class and then refused to read the second book so that any interested third graders would be forced to seek out the next chapter of the Baudelaire’s unfortunate history on our own.”

Which I did.

The End, Book the 13th, came out on Friday the 13th the year I was thirteen, and I’ve read the series through almost every year for the past thirteen years. So while the erroneous story of Veronica, Klyde, and Susie put forth by the Daily Punctilio does not interest me, the plight of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire certainly does.

There are those of you who might recall the dark days of this series, in which a well cast, well costumed, and well filmed adaptation of the first three books was released. (Jim Carry as Olaf! Jude Law as the shadowy silhouette of Lemony Snicket! MERYL STREEP as Aunt Josephine!) An adaptation that, despite its strengths, somehow managed to get the story so very wrong that even unsophisticated, 11 year old me could recognize it as a spectacular disappointment. (You can read my thoughts and feelings on that here.)

The final season of Netflix’s A Series of Unfortunate Events premiered on New Year’s Day, and I finished it long before sunset. Now that all the books have been adapted, I am here to lend my thoughts. They are as follows:

Bangin.

This show is bangin.

This whole series has blown me away. This adaptation respects the source material while simultaneously elevating the story as a whole, tying together all the threads that were left somewhat loose in the book. Tiny details and easter eggs are sprinkled throughout that weave the episodes together. Changes were, of course, made to translate the story to screen, but the majority of those changes only strengthened the narrative. This is due in large part to Daniel Handler, the man behind the pen name Lemony Snicket, who actually wrote several episodes. This showed that the series wasn’t just an interpretation of the books, but an expanding of the story.

Some examples: The side plots and flashbacks of VFD to help the audience better understand the shadowy organization and the schism itself, the Hook-Handed Man’s bond with the youngest Baudelaire (making him a more sympathetic character and better explaining his eventual defection from Count Olaf), the introduction of Olivia Caliban, who improved and deepened the character of Madame Lulu, the inclusion of some elements from The Beatrice Letters (Lemony’s speech to Beatrice, the letter from his niece), and the fact that we got to see the events that transpired at the opera La Forza del Destino and that those events were essentially what kicked off the schism. We were also, finally, told what the sugar bowl contained.

We were also given a peek into how and why Lemony Snicket came to investigate the sad case of the Baudelaire orphans, how close he came to intervening at a crucial moment, and how much time has passed since the Baudelaire orphans tale had come to an end. The story looped back around on itself. Lemony Snicket, after many lonely years in many miserable hotels wherein his only companion was his trusty typewriter, no longer has to be alone. After so much time spent searching for the children of the woman he loved he finds another Beatrice, his neice, and has a root beer float with his last remaining family member.

Only one change slightly altered the spirit of the story, and this is the moral quandary the Baudelaire’s find themselves in during the later books starting with their first act of true deception in The Hostile Hospital, stealing Hal’s keys. This is followed by their setting Madam Lulu’s tent on fire in The Carnivorous Carnival, the trapping of Esme Squalor in The Slippery Slope, Count Olaf getting his hands on the Medusoid Mycelium in The Grim Grotto, the burning of the Hotel Denouement in The Penultimate Peril, and finally, not telling Ishmael about the Medusoid Mycelium in The End.

“Now, Summer,” I hear you thinking, “All those things happened in the show as well.”

And, my astute observer, you are not incorrect. These things do happen in the show, but with less moral responsibility for the Baudelaires.

The stealing of Hal’s keys plays out much the same in both the books and movies, but the true deviation begins with The Carnivorous Carnival. In both, Count Olaf takes Sunny before informing a disguised Violet and Klaus that they must burn down Madame Lulu’s tent if they want to come with him to the Mortmain Mountains.

In the show, they weigh their options, the rights and wrongs, before Count Olaf reenters the tent, lights the torch for them, and literally guides their hands down to ignite The Incomplete History of Secret Organizations.

In the book, however, Violet and Klaus are left with an already lit torch. They deliberate, but when they hear Sunny crying somewhere through the smoke, they toss the torch behind them and leave without looking back. They aren’t guided, they decide. They choose to throw the torch.

Similarly, in The Slippery Slope, the Violet, Klaus, and Quigley spend an entire night digging the ditch in which they plan to trap Esme Squalor, but change their minds and do the noble thing by warning her at the last second. In the show, she falls into a hot tub, and they tie her up? Maybe? She got out very easily, so I couldn’t really tell who had fallen into who’s clutches. In the books, Sunny gives Count Olaf the Medusoid Mycelium, in the show it is Fiona. In the books, Violet gives Carmelita Spats the harpoon gun without knowing if it is the right thing to do. In the show, Frank Denouement assures her that all is well,VFD knows the plan for the harpoon and has taken it into account. In the book, Sunny suggests burning down the hotel, and then they themselves throw the match onto the copy of Odious Lusting After Finance (finance, not fortunes, in the book. I never did pick up on that being O.L.A.F. until the show though). In the show, Olaf takes Sunny’s idea and lights the fire himself.

In the show, the Baudelaires are almost entirely without fault. In the books, the Baudelaires, however justified, perform some morally ambiguous acts. They never want to, and sometimes it seems to be the only choice, but it makes the “people are like chef’s salads” line and the Baudelaire’s guilt at Dewey’s death that much more poignant, because, no matter how justified or how accidental, they did have a hand in villainy. It’s one of the ways the books grow in complexity as the characters and readers themselves grow.

That was my only complaint for the show, in the end. AND I THINK that’s about as coherent I’d like to be about this subject, so enjoy a list of elements I thought were really neat that I don’t want to put in paragraph form.

Jacqueline, who played a rather crucial role in the show but doesn’t show up in the books at all, is revealed to be the Duchess of Winnipeg, who is mentioned quite a few times in several books.

In the second episode of The Penultimate Peril, Violet wears a dark purple dress with a white collar, which is very reminiscent of the dress she wears in the book art.

Ishmael was revealed to be the man who started VFD in the first place, which was neat and made Count Olaf’s mysterious vendetta against him (more or less unexplained in the books) make much more sense.

We get to see the Quagmires reunited

We get to see Fiona and the Hook-Handed Man find their stepfather (Aye!)

The Beatrice Letters came with a poster that showed a shipwrecked sailboat (the Beatrice), implying a dark fate for the Baudelaire’s. HOWEVER, at the very end of the show we hear Beatrice Baudelaire (Snicket’s niece) say that before the Baudelaire’s third trip to Briny Beach, they were accosted by female Finnish pirates. This proves that ONE: they do eventually make it safely to shore, and TWO: Female finnish pirates invented the Devil’s tongue knot, the knot Violet uses to created her grappling hook in the first book, another nice tie-in.

The series captures the feel of the books, the quirky, literary feel of the world Lemony Snicket creates. I am so, so very satisfied with how lovingly these books were adapted for the screen.

#A series of unfortunate events #ASOUE #netflix #summergaylecreative #review

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backtomybookshelf · 6 years

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ASEOE: An Analysis of The Reptile Room

(Before I begin my review, I would like to formally apologize for the long wait that has been between these two blog posts. I have no excuses- I’ve put aside this for a while and had been easily distracted by other obligations and video games. But, here it is for your enjoyment. Please, feel free to comment in the reply box, and I would be more than happy to discuss with those who do read these posts about ASOUE!) Coming right off of the shelves from The Bad Beginning, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, the second installment of the harrowing series, the Reptile Room, plays with reader’s expectations more than it really should. It keeps in line with the well-meaning guardian trope and starts the tradition of killing off the Beaudelaire’s guardians, fueling the hatred the reader already has against the antagonist, Count Olaf. Running at a decent rating of four out of five in most book review sites, Handler keeps up the train of misery and woe he started with the Bad Beginning, and further into the world that these characters inhabit.

The second book sets itself in a very particular way; some world building is introduced as the Children and Mr. Poe are driving down Lousy Lane- a place where it smells very much like horseradish- to Uncle Monty’s home in the country. Handler’s subtle use of world building expands the world that the children are occupied in. What is even more satisfying as a reader is that this isn’t the first time that this town/place is mentioned. In The Vile Village, Book the Seventh, the reader is harkened back to this point in time when the Children are asked which town they would like to live in as part of “It Takes a Village to Raise a Child” Initiative after The Beaudelaires are refused by long lost relatives, public shelters, or any other soul who would want to take them. But, I’m getting ahead of myself. Let’s talk about the Guardian of the Book.

Uncle Montgomery Montgomery- or Uncle Monty, as he wants to be called- is one of the prime examples of the Well-Meaning Adult, as I discussed in my last post about the adults of the world of ASOUE. As soon as Mr. Poe drops the kids off at his home/laboratory, Monty is very keen on getting the inept banker, a word which here means “showing or having no skill in a particular subject,” in this case, not finding an excellent guardian for the children the first time and putting them into the hands of the wretched and disgusting Count Olaf. Throughout the first half of the book, Uncle Monty recognizes the Beaudelaire’s skills and adapts to their needs- a raw carrot for Sunny which she would prefer over a slice of coconut cake, a whole library on Herpetology for Klaus to peruse through, and Violet helping Uncle Monty with his tools. This is what the Beaudelaires wanted- a loving and caring guardian who knew their parents and felt a deep connection with them. The Justice Strauss that they were denied and now have is here in the flesh.

And yet, there is that single moment that breaks the illusion of happiness. Enter Count Olaf, calling himself “Stephano,” who inserts himself into the narrative yet again to bring misery and woe to the Beaudelaire orphans. As this is the first disguise of the series, the reader is already aware that this is Count Olaf, as are the children. What is more jarring to the reader is that it was Mr. Poe who was at first scoffing at the idea that Count Olaf was an evil person, but now Uncle Monty is now under the same idea, but in a different execution. With the villain in disguise, Monty finds himself suspecting Olaf to be a spy from the Herpetological Society, not as a terrible and heinous person. Though, in a way, it still plays through with the ”Well Meaning Adult,” and also focuses on one literary theme.

The major theme in this book that Handler uses is “Dramatic Irony.” In this case, what the Beaudelaires are going through is a point of dramatic irony, a phrase which here means, “when a person makes a harmless remark, and when someone else hears it knows something that makes the remark have a different, and usually unpleasant, meaning.” Keep in mind, this definition is taken straight out of the book, so bear with me as I work with this definition. This use of the phrase dramatic irony is lightly sprinkled throughout the story- from the beginning until the end. It is no coincidence that Handler explains this in the third chapter and so soon too, so that when the reader continues to read, they can understand that almost everything that comes out of Uncle Monty’s mouth could be used in an ironic purpose.

The Reader of this book could also claim that The Reptile Room can be the first time that Handler uses a form of Dark Humor. A classic definition of Dark Humor- or Black Humor- is the idea of deriving a sick twist of humor in a relatively dark point. Any Reader in the modern age can easily derive a form of dark or black humor in select titles. In mass media, a superhero with Canadian roots could shoot a guy in the face and then make a pop culture reference to show the lighter side of the horrific act, or a camera crew taping four vampires living in a flat in New Zealand with their consent to learn what it is like to be a Vampire. Both consumable media formats execute a different form of Dark Humor, but it’s still within the umbrella term.

My personal take on the Reptile Room is where Handler really plays into the role of his pen name, Lemony Snicket, and he starts to develop his voice as a singular identity as well as a narrator. Along with writing down the events to follow, Snicket is found to be punctual, maybe charming, and maybe have a voice that would coincide with the Jude Law portrayal than that of the Patrick Warburton portrayal. Not to throw shade on the Netflix series, but at this point, I still see the narrator as this very shadow covered man, hunched over his typewriter with every intent to write out the whole series of thirteen books, hidden or thrown out in every place imaginable with his poor editor to find the complete manuscripts, along with the artifacts to cement the truth, and to intrigue the reader into what could come next.

The Reptile Room, or in other words Murder!- as its title is later called- is a dial from 10 to 11 as the saying goes in ASOUE, and it only gets worse in later titles. Handler did well with these themes which carries on through the series for a good while, only stopping after the Vile Village, where it only gets darker and bleak as the books go on.

The Reptile Room: Book the Second of A Series of Unfortunate Events

5/5

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daniellaux429 · 7 years

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Inktober 10 - The Baudelaire Children noticing Lemony Snicket by me!

For the tenth day of the Inktober challenge, I decided to draw fan art of a great book series & a great TV series at the same time! As a kid, I enjoyed the book series A Series Of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. The movie adaptation was fine for what it was, but vastly inferior to the books for a plethora of reasons. Thus, when the new Netflix series came out back in January, I saw it & loved it! It was exactly the adaptation fans of the series were looking for! One aspect about the series that makes it unique is that Lemony Snicket (who is played by the ever wonderful Patrick Warburton) narrates the stories & is also seen in the same scenes as the other characters. So I thought it'd be funny if the Baudelaire children, Violet, Klaus, & Sunny, actually noticed Mr. Snicket & acknowledged his presence. If they did, I imagine he'd then define one of the vocabulary words one of the kids used, pretend he's not noticing this, mention how terrible the villain Count Olaf is, & then ask the readers/viewers to go read/watch something else. On a side note, I will confess something: one thing I do think the movie version did a lot better was with Lemony Snicket. I thought it was a lot cooler & more mysterious to see him as a silhouette played by Jude Law who's face you never saw. That said, I still don't mind how the TV show is doing things. Enjoy, & now we're about 1/3 of the way done with Inktober! More will be coming soon!

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crystal-lillies · 7 years

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A Series of Unfortunate Reviews: The Season One Overview

As a whole, the first season of A Series of Unfortunate Events is a wonderful adaptation of the first four books, and a very enjoyable show.

There was a lot of excitement held for this series, but there were elements of doubt that lingered. Was this Netflix series going to live up to the expectations? Or would it fall short and lose hope of both the fans and the casual viewer? After all the 2004 movie, while passable and amusing, fell short on quite a many fronts, and it seemed that there might not be success for our beloved book series; however, with each new bit of trailer and interview with cast and Handler, the Netflix series seemed promising still.

I am happy to report that A Series of Unfortunate Events Season One lives very well up to its expectations and exceeds them in several accounts.

As far as the casting went, previously I held no real opinion though I was concerned on the quality of the acting. Rest assured, everyone is better than you can expect, from NPH’s Olaf, to the children, and even the side characters.

I did, however, note concern before the show aired, about whether or not Patrick Warburton’s portrayal of the elusive and dry witted Lemony Snicket would be a good one. Lemony Snicket was one of the things I admired the 2004 movie for, keeping Jude Law silhouetted and having his voice be the occasional narrating that we know and love. I must say though, I was surprised with how seamless Patrick Warburton’s Lemony fit in with the world. He really captured a lot of the great dark humorous moments and while I still would likely have preferred a blurry shadowy photograph than a clear face of the elusive author, I love the idea that he simply is everywhere and anywhere while also having places that he is in solidly. It keeps with the fluid nature of his character in the books, being everywhere the Baudelaires are while also being in concrete places at times when describing the Editor Letters and through The Unauthorized Autobiography.

The children, I love them very much. Again, while excited for the show as a whole, I was overall ambivalent to the casting. I would leave my opinion until I saw them in the full context. And now that the full context has been viewed. Oh boy. These children are the absolute best. I love Malina’s portrayal of Violet and Louis’ portrayal of Klaus. I almost immediately connected to them, and hardly discerned the transition from page to screen. They had much more balance in comparison to the 2004 movie, which was another thing that had many of us worried. Klaus was a strong character, but it wasn’t just “the Klaus show” that the movie was. Violet had plenty of great intelligent and powerful moments as well. Sunny was a bit of a conundrum, but I enjoyed her very much. There were, in fact, subtitles for most, but not all of Sunny’s lines. Several moments had me screaming for how on point the lines were. All in all, the children are incredible, and in my opinion I think you all will love them too.

For Mr. Poe, I will be brief. I was only concerned about 2 things for his character: if he would be ridiculously inept, and if he would constantly be coughing like in the books, unlike the Pettigrew-Poe (sorry, Timothy Spall’s Poe) who hardly coughed, if at all. Let me assure you both of those criteria are met in delightful ways.

I’ll get into Count Olaf and his troupe, as well as the rest of the guardians, more in depth in the separate reviews, but they were well-acted and enjoyable to see.

There were plenty of dark moments and plenty of dry humor, while also having genuine moments of heartfelt levity. There were a couple in-show musical pieces, the first being much less out of place than the second, but they both fit the flow in their own ways. The show had lots of elements from the book series, including plenty of direct quotes, and it was the best feeling in the world to see them come alive in brilliant ways.

The new elements of the story are also very fluidly directed into the heart of the story we know and doesn’t feel too overbearing in comparison. Rather instead I found myself wanting to see more of the mysterious members of VFD and their behind the scenes schemes and scrambling. Rest assured, those of you concerned about the spyglass, this show takes the concept that was introduced in the 2004 movie that wasn’t much more than a McGuffin, and brings it to a satisfying fruition. You hardly even question if it belongs there, because it works so seamlessly.

I would rate this season a 9.5/10 overall and I highly recommend it to fans of the book series and casual viewers!

#flowerspeak #a series of unfortunate events #a series of unfortunate events netflix #asoue #asoue netflix #a series of unfortunate reviews #long post #review #asoue movie #a series of unfortunate events movie

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roughentumble · 7 years

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i need to watch netflix’s asoue but i just wanna say................. im real :/ abt picking patrick warburton to play lemony snicket and SHOWING SNICKET’S FACE????

like. idk. his face was ALWAYS hidden in illustrations and it just. it felt so. it felt like such a part of his character to me. he’s a SPY or somethin, so the anonymity of a constantly hidden face, like you’re just constantly glimpsing him at just the wrong moment, like you glance over at a crowd and see him but a child’s balloon has JUST gotten in the way, and then you blink and he’s gone

and it felt so. part of it, to me. i liked him sitting at a typewriter with his back to the camera(idk for sure if thats how the movie did it, but thats how i remember it) so much, it felt so... right. theres a lot to complain abt wrt the movie, but that was good. that, i liked.

and patrick warburton is just so....... specific looking and sounding. jude law’s body type and his voice are just more generic, but i can ALWAYS pick out warburton, and like i’m not trying to say that you have to be thin to be a spy or that snicket cant have ANY defining characteristics, but... just. i dont know.

i guess maybe they picked him to look a bit like daniel handler, but, idk, im just. so attached to asoue and nothing will ever be good enough lmfao

#asoue tag #LISTEN........WHEN I WATCH IT I'LL PROB LUV IT #BUT FOR NOW #I HAVENT SEEN IT AND I LOVE TO COMPLAIN

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axolotiels · 7 years

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I really have to say I like the new Series of Unfortunate Events show a lot, seeing as the tone and aesthetic are very good/clean looking . But the actors from the episodes that encapsulate books 1-3 (like the film did) seem to be playing the previous incarnations of the characters rather than the characters but in their own way. Like, Neil Patrick Harris genuinely got a few laughs out of me but he’ll never be as good a Count Olaf as Jim Carrey(To me, personally) even if he is a bet more threatening. As for Uncle Monty, he was alright, but Aunt Josephine really made me go.... she’s just doing what Meryl Streep did but more stilted. Patrick Warburton as a somber Lemony Snicket I love and feel fits pretty well; he has a different enough flavor from Jude Law (I think that was who played Snicket in the last film?). That being said I do love the series and am waiting for season 2 as the teme song plays on repeat in my head,

#jinx rambles #asoue #soue #a series of unfortunate events

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fractal-fourcube · 7 years

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A Bad Beginning: Part 2

Okay, so I’ll concede that the theme song is in keeping with the tone, but that doesn’t mean I’m totally into it yet.

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-- Harris as Olaf did *way* better this time around. He lingered on camera a bit, he let himself be a touch hammier, and overall his performance was finally as convincing as I was looking for. It looks like he’s come to understand the role since the pilot.

-- This a different take on Justice Strauss than I’m used to, but so far I like it. Her inherent optimism is already at stark odds with the world they all live in, and boy does it ever show. She was so crushed that she couldn’t adopt the Baudelaires. Well, Your Honor, I’m sorry you didn’t get to take part in the happy ending, but it’s better this way--knowing what I know about what Olaf does to people who take in the orphans he’s after.

I also really liked the scene in which Olaf recruited her to join The Marvelous Marriage. There’s not a lot to say about it; anyone could see what was happening onscreen, I just liked how it played out.

-- I’m sorry, but...Jude Law did Lemony Snicket better. Don’t get me wrong: I think Patrick Warburton’s pretty good, as an actor. I just don’t think he quite fits here. Snicket’s narration just doesn’t sound sincere coming out of him. He rushes delivery and doesn’t seem like he knows where Snicket is coming from when he says what he does. It’s not entirely his fault though--the script also doesn’t preserve enough of Snicket’s trademark dry comedy.

Or his sorrow, come to think of it. That’s what Law did better. He was a sadder Snicket. I wish he was back for this series.

-- The ending was...messy. It could have had a lot less extraneous dialogue and action than it did. It feels like the crew was just trying to get it over with so they could move on to Olaf’s escape and Warburton’s closing stuff. It was more faithful to the book than the Nickelodeon movie, sure, but am I the only one who thinks that maybe the storytelling style of ASOUE isn’t always going to translate that well to the screen? It might be worth thinking about trimming and adjusting some things.

-- And they’re seriously already bringing up VFD? It’s WAY too soon to be making these references! The fact that their parents were in a secret organization is not supposed to be obvious yet. (I about choked when Olaf brought up the sugar bowl.)

-- Uncle Monty is supposed to be the first death in the series, godsdamnit!

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On a final, more positive note, here are three things I found absolutely hilarious:

-- The fact that Olaf bought his crappy hourglass online.

-- *hold ups mangled typewriter* “I think we need to call IT.”

(I love the relationship between old tech and new in this series.)

-- Sunny and the hook-handed man playing poker.

(I like that the series circumvents the uncanny valley by playing up how implausible a lot of Sunny’s character is.)

#asoue #asoue spoilers #a series of unfortunate events #man i'm being tough on this show #i'm sorry i promise i actually like it

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unabashedlyspookycolor · 7 years

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Hello, everyone! In celebration of the approaching release date, @lastchancegeneralstore has made a tag/ask thingie with questions about everything Snicket! Our hope is that this makes it around to as many volunteers as possible so that we can all get to know each other better and celebrate together!

Favorite Book in the Series: The Hostile Hospital

When Did You Read Them for the First Time: My mother bought the first book for me when I was around 7 or 8, and I got hooked.

Favorite Character: Violet

Kit/Dewey or Kit/Olaf: Kit/Dewey (mostly because I liked Dewey myself, and was sad when he died).

Favorite Quagmire: This is a tricky one. All three are really cool. It might be a tie between Isadora and Quigley, with Duncan super close to catching up.

Favorite Baudelaire: Violet

Favorite Snicket: Lemony!

Did You See the 2004 Movie in Theaters: Yes

Thoughts About the Movie: Mixed bag. One one hand, the music is wonderful, the actors playing the kids did a good job, Meryl Streep was hilarious and Jude Law’s voice sometimes still reads my favorite Snicket lines in my head. On the other, there was the mushed mess of a story and Jim Carrey bouncing off the walls. Generally I don’t hate it as much as I used to.

Favorite Quote: A tie between “A good library will never be too neat or too dusty, because someone will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and reading them” and the “in the dark” spiel.

Have You Ever Met Daniel Handler: Sadly no. I continue to live in hope, though.

Thoughts About ATWQ: Loved it!

Favorite ATWQ Character: Moxie

Favorite Moment in ASOUE: Violet coming up with an escape plan despite being off her tits on anesthesia. Also Sunny’s lampshading of the group dynamic in The Grim Grotto (”COOK AND TEETH.”)

Would You Ever Get An Eye Tattoo: I keep considering it, and also keep chickening out. Maybe one day.

Fire-fighter or Fire-starter: Fire-fighter (mostly because I don’t know how to light a match correctly. The villains would call me a weenie and I’d be picked last for everything.)

Least Favorite Character: Mr. Poe. Screw that guy.

Did the Quagmires Survive: Yes. Yes they did.

In Your Opinion, What is the Great Unknown: A symbol for all the unsolved mysteries life will never solve.

Did You Like How the Series Ended: I appreciate it a lot more now than when I was thirteen.

What Question Do You Most Want Answered By Handler: Who is the Brae-Man, Beatrice’s co-star in TBL? (If anyone else knows or has a guess, this has been bugging me for years. I have anagrammed myself out.)

What Are You Most Excited For About the Netflix Series: Hearing those dedications and getting a bunch of new fans to hopefully talk to.

Binge Watching or Spacing Out the Episodes: Space out just due to all the excitement breaks I’ll probably take.

I Tag: any volunteers out there who may not have gotten this! Hope to meet new friends!

#a series of unfortunate events #ask meme #this was fun

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Opinions on A Series of Unfortunate Events

so ive only seen The Bad Beginning Part One so far, so my opinions may change

I have seen the A Series of Unfortunate Events movies probably 5 times, since it came out in 2004. Even though it was widely regarded as a flop, I really did enjoy it. It was stylistic, dark, and funny. That being said, there are certain things this new series does better.

Being that Daniel Handler wrote the first episode, it comes to no surprise that the series’ writing is much more comedic and dark than the movie. My memory of the movie is kind of foggy, but in terms of comedy, I believe most of the movie’s funniness came either Jim Carrey’s silliness as Count Olaf or from the sheer oddness of situations (mostly Carrey’s Olaf). In this first episode, Klaus and Violet (and Sunny, to a certain extent) have better lines than in the film, but again - my memory is hazy.

Another thing I like is the wardrobe and set design. Generally, everything is slightly more aesthetically pleasing. I like the decision to dress the Baudelaires in cheerful clothing this time round. The film had them in drab colors, as everything in that movie was gray and dark. While i enjoyed that the movie costuming set the film tonally, I think the Netflix series’ costuming more true to the children’s actual personalities in the books.

Even though I like the set and the writing, I have mixed feelings about the casting. For me, Jim Carrey really could’ve been a perfect Olaf if he were slightly more reigned in at times. I really enjoyed Carrey’s look as Olaf, he was truly imposing yet ridiculous. The facial prosthetics fit his own face well and he was tall and lanky, which added to the comedy. Neil Patrick Harris’ Olaf is boring to me. He lacks some kind of edge to him that I really can’t place. Also, the facial prosthetics on NPH look too odd and cartoonish and while Olaf is supposed to look kind of like a characture of a villian, NPH’s face just looks straight up fake (also: Olaf is described to have beetle-black eyes. NPH has ice blue eyes....)

Additionally with casting, I can see why they aged Klaus and Violet up in the film. With the exception of Stranger Things, child actors are rarely fun to watch and with the Baudelaires being the main characters, it is hard to watch these kids deliver such nice lines with bland monotone (to be fair - they are very talented for their age, but its not enough to watch for an entire hour).

Sunny is my least favorite thing about the show. Tara Strong does not produce very convincing child noises (couldn’t they just record the baby cooing and gurgling? or get a better voice actor?) and the back-view scenes of her biting something to bits are cringeworthy at best. Either the movie intentionally left out scenes like that or they did it better.

Patrick Warburton as Lemony Snicket is something I’m torn on. On the one hand, I get these fantastic Rod Serling vibes from his character and he is fun to watch but on the other hand I keep feeling as if his voice is missing something. I really liked Jude Law as Snicket in the 2004 film, because I believe British people pull off sarcasm and wit more sardonically than Americans (and Snicket’s figurative voice straddles a depressing and bitter line in my mind). I think that John Hamm would’ve been a more favorable Lemony Snicket. He already matches the theme of the series with his Mad Men aesthetic and I think his voice - his literal voice - would be a better fit.

One thing that I am quite confused on is the time period of this series. I favor the movie over the show because the time period the events took place in were ambiguous. There were Victorian set-peices, 1930s attire, 1950s cars, I distencly remember a modernish gas station. This show is similar in that regard. The setting, cars, clothing are all distinctly mid-century american designs. The cars, used of typewriters, lack of cell phones, everything fits that theme. The one thing that signifies that this story may not take place in atypical 1950s america (atypical being the sheer ridiculousness of it) is Justice Strauss’ mentioning of a case of stolen credit cards. I was not alive in the 50s so I do not know if credit cards were a thing back then (I know credit was a thing but we learned are lesson from the Great Depression and reduced our reliance on credit) .

there is more I can say I guess but due to my crap memory I am refraining from anything else until i see the rest of the series

#whattalks #asoue #asoue netflix

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notafilmgenius · 7 years

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A Series of Unfortunate Events (Contains Spoilers)

When grown up I used to love reading the ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ by Lemony Snicket since it was very different from most other books since there never a truly happy ending or happy beginning and the story managed to teach you new things that you had not come across. So when the film featuring Jim Carry I was excited however this is review & opinion isn’t about the ‘Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events‘ film that came out in 2004.

This review is about the new Netflix version of ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ 2017 and I am sad to say is a bitter disappointment in this new TV series that I was looking so forward to watch since the tralier made creepy and eerie just as the books.

Where to begin well let start at the beginning with the introduce to the series which I am guess is suppose of be a bit creep & unwelcoming for us to watch this however it doesn’t give me that affect I was more creeped out by the creepy songs at are in the audiobooks version however I guess the song is quite unique since it changes to each episode.

Now onto Lemony Snicket/the Narrator of the series who is played by the actor Patrick Warburton even though he does stick mostly to what was written in the books with some deviation which is acceptable what frustrates me the most is the lack of emotion that he used to narrator the story and when he talks I feel like am back at school listen to a boring lecture that puts asleep. Instead my advice to Mr Warburton is to put some emotion because a lot of what your character say is important information to the actual story and there are some topics that we can learn quite a bit from what you are saying even Jude Law did a better job at narratoring.

Violet & Klaus & Sunny Baudelaire - I admire that they get actors that look like how the children were described in the books however it is very common knowledge if you indeed have read the book but there are some exceptions.

It is clearly written in the book that Violet Baudelaire hates the colour pink and lavender is a sickly colour so why did she wear a pink dress for the first two episodes?? Also, another advice for the children actors it to properly so emotions since I am sorry but I didn’t feel very convinced by the emotions that you show.

Count Olaf played the wonderful Neil Patrick Harris so when I found this series was being made I could not but be excited since Mr Harris is a great actor however I was very disappointed by Mr Harris portrayal of Count Olaf for one thing he is not scary or imitating and a very bitter disappointment.

However, I will give them some point for the accuracy of Count Olaf’s disguises and the locations of each even though some of the house. I will also give them points for mostly sticking with the way the story is in the books.

The ‘theatre troupe‘ of Count Olaf are meant to be a scary and intimidating but I must say I don’t find them scary at all and they don’t seem very smart or good at disguises at all in the series which is strange since they are so in the books.

Justice Strauss played by Joan Cusack is a very bitter disappointment for the lovely judge sure in the books she doesn’t get what the Baudelaire is hinting at but I don’t think that Justice Strauss would be that much of sorry to say this but featherbrain.

The two guardians of the Baudelaire’s Doctor Montgomery Montgomery & Aunt Josephine played by Aasif Mandvi & Alfre Woodard are a disappointment to the characters from the story and they feel so fake plus I feel so unconvinced by the actor of any emotion that they portray. Also, Doctor Montgomery Montgomery & Aunt Josephine look a bit to perfect to make it believable that real people had live in those houses.

Mr Poe played by K. Todd Freeman even though I not fond of him is quite accurate to his characterise.

They decided to add things like tunnels that don’t exist in the books and they reveal secrets before they are meant to be revealed. Which is destroying the mystery of the whole series.

So, in conclusion, I am sorry to say that I am going to give the series a big miss and wonder why is it so hard to stick to the books. However, I would recommend to read the actual books or listen to the audiobooks and I would even recommend seeing ‘Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events‘ film 2004 instead because even though it changes the story it is a lot more believe able than the new Netflix series version.

As they say in the series...

‘But most importantly: Please watch something else.’

- Not A Film Genius

P.S. The review/opinion is from myself as a viewer and not as an expert so take with a pinch of salt if you like and you are more then welcome to watch the show and draw your own opinion from the tv-series then believe what I say.

#a series of unfortunate events #netflix #neil patrick harris #patrick warburton #violet baudelaire #klaus baudelaire #sunny baudelaire #count olaf #lemony snicket

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