Fantastic Book
Hope the movie does it justice.
shareIt is a fantastic book. I'm with you all the way. The cast gives me hope.
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It is a fantastic book. I'm with you all the way. The cast gives me hope.
shareholywood has a habit of making post apocalyptic / dystopian all to clean & safe
trashing books is like the Special Olympics even if you burn them all you are still a retard.
Well, Glenn Close is certainly an inspired casting choice. I'm not familiar with any of the others. But the movie will stand or fall on the talents of the newcomer who's playing Melanie. And the make-up crew, whose ingenuity will be stretched to the max.
shareJust in case anyone hasn't picked these up, Mike Carey has other books (as well as comic book works). https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9018.Mike_Carey
I heartilly recommend the Felix Castor series which starts with "The Devil You Know" which is very different to 'Gifts' but equally excellent. Sort of Urban Fantasy/Noir/Ghost story set in London.
I haven't read the book... does Glenn Close have a good part to work with? She's one of my favourite actresses and sorely underrated!
shareYes, she is part of the few characters that are in the most part of the movie. The character isn't the nicest person, but I think Glenn Close fits very well for the roll. Gemma.. not so much. I don't have anything to say about her as an actress, but the character in the book is quite clearly black. But this is the author himself's decision, so nothing to do about it. There is also a ginger that is cast black. So a few ethnical changes, but I still have belief in the movie, as it is a fantastic book.
shareAnd you can't forget Melanie, who is white and blonde in the book, but is played by Sennia Nanua, a young black actress. So, while I wouldn't have changed their races and would have liked to see Ms. Justineau be played by a black actress, at least the cast hasn't been entirely whitewashed.
shareIf it's half as good as the book I will still watch it. The idea was so unique and I loved the character of Melanie.
shareNot sure why they changed the character's skin color from the book. Melanie is pale white with blond hair and big blue eyes with grey flecks (even though 'Melanie' means "the black girl"- so says the book in the 1st paragraph). Miss Justineau is "as dark as Melanie’s skin is light".
It's not pertinent to the story, as long as the actress who plays Melanie can pull off the sweet and innocent child, which she is- LOLOLOL!
Awesome book!!!!! I read about 50 to 100 books a year and this one was definitely one of my favorites. The ending was unbelievably amazing!!!
When I see her in press releases smiling, she seems the perfect fit for Melanie as she's described. I loved the book.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. Anais Ninshare
One thing they might have to abandon is that you could see little grey flecks in her eyes which was actually a sign of the fungus.
For every complex question there is a simple answer. And it's wrong. ~ H. L. Menckenshare
I'm about a tenth of the way through the book so far, and want to read it before I see the film.
Besides the obvious zombie comparisons, it reminds me a bit of Lindqvist's Let The Right One In and Handling The Undead, and Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, along with a sprinkling of Flowers For Algernon.
So this is permanence, love's shattered pride.
What once was innocence, turned on its side.