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Regziever · 11-14-2003, 01:34 PM

Here is the article translated..

http://pagang.vk.se/pub/singlePage.asp?id=5492

Quote:

Lord of the ring has also become a book

I passed a bookstand at the airport the other day and noticed how quickly they have made a book of 'Lord of the rings'. It's fascinating how every time they have to squeeze every single dollar out of a piece of art.

As soon as some producer has made his very best to make a real classic movie experience of course some no good, talently challenged writer will come and make money in the wake of the success.

It's not enough to write a book on a movie that already exist. Oh no, it has to come sequels as well. Lord of the rings has, if you haven't already noticed, all of a sudden become tree parts. It is claimed by some that the two sequels actually came out before the new movie had its premiere. How insolent!
Not to mention that Harry Potter. The movie wasn't close to being good enough as to milk four five books out on the same theme?

I have heard that they have several teams of soulless writers that are writing the sequels per order. That is probably why they have such odd names. Because they are made up I mean.

What serious writer would call himself something as complicated as J.R.R. Tolkien? Most real, serious writers has pretty ordinary Swedish names. Ekman, Enquist, Lindgren.

Nope, you ain't fooling me, god damn it.

It would have been nice if that literary sequel phenomenon had limited itself to books and authors, but no. Now even movie classics like Romeo and Juliet as well as Hamlet are being remade into theatrical plays in the hands of the ruthless and greedy theatre industry.

As you can see, nothing is holy any more. Commercial forces spare no one and nothing in their exploitation of art as a merchandise to be traded with. I fear the day the industry make a book out of my favorite movie - Jesus Christ Superstar.
Honestly, when was the last time you read a book that was better than the movie it was based upon?

Sorry for the lousy translation.. I'm no good at this.

It is most likley a phun aimed at the younger generations who in their ignorance refuses to belive that movies are based upon books not the other way around..