Bad crossover imagery...

[amethyst73]

There are a number of fun off-topic conversations at Librivox.  Someone started a thread about books being adapted into movies and vice versa.  I made a brief and incoherent post, including reference to this interview with the director of The Dark Is Rising, in which he mentioned draping real snakes on the actors rather than doing a digital effect.  (Ain't no such scene in the book... in Part 2 of the interview, there's a lot of chatter about several other 'added' scenes in the movie, which are making me even more leary of the film.)

Anyway.  Kayray's response to the comment about the snakes?

"Snakes on an Old One."

Comments

[stolen-tea.livejournal.com]

This does not bode well. :(

[haamel.livejournal.com]

Somehow or other I was in the one third-grade class at my elementary school that didn't have to read The Dark is Rising for a book report. I've always been curious as to what sort of book this is: I seldom hear people mention reading it as an adult, yet I get the feeling it's not in the same literary bucket as the Roald Dahl or Madeline L'Engle books...