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I've been doing my annual re-read of Howl's Moving Castle (that and Good Omens are pretty much my comfort books, and my copies are pretty much falling apart), and oh, but I don't think I'll ever really stop wishing for another movie adaptation.
It's not that Miyazaki's movie was bad (I don't think the man is capable of making a bad movie), it's just that it wasn't HMC. Not only did they pair down everyone's characters, but they got rid of what's easily my favorite part of the book: Wales. I was just really yearning to see Howl in his stupid Welsh Rugby shirt and see him coming home drunk singing silly rugby songs and his house with a Rivendell sign and his crappy car with holes in the upholstery to which Sophie clings for her life! SIGH.
I hadn't read it since Diana Wynne Jones passed. It adds a certain layer of melancholy, certainly. At least we got House of Many Ways, I suppose.
It's not that Miyazaki's movie was bad (I don't think the man is capable of making a bad movie), it's just that it wasn't HMC. Not only did they pair down everyone's characters, but they got rid of what's easily my favorite part of the book: Wales. I was just really yearning to see Howl in his stupid Welsh Rugby shirt and see him coming home drunk singing silly rugby songs and his house with a Rivendell sign and his crappy car with holes in the upholstery to which Sophie clings for her life! SIGH.
I hadn't read it since Diana Wynne Jones passed. It adds a certain layer of melancholy, certainly. At least we got House of Many Ways, I suppose.
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