Review - Earthsea the miniseries
Dec. 15th, 2004 02:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackYou may have heard me say they should make a film of Ursula K Le Guin's Earthsea[1]. I changed my mind. They shouldn't. Indeed, they shouldn't have.
http://www.ursulakleguin.com/Earthsea.html
GAH! Fuck. Well, I won't pass judgement until I've seen it, but Le Guin saying that is quite shocking.
[1] For those who don't know, Earthsea is one of the classic defining fantasy books, as evidenced by being, along with LOTR and HP[2], one of the very few mum likes. It's set on the Archipeligo, the vast cluster of islands the only land known. Ged comes from Gont, a goatherd, which surprisingly many wizards were, taught by a hedge-witch, saves his village from a raiding party, goes to Roke, the wizard isle, to study, being too arrogant for his own good gets into a dual and loses a 'shadow', which the archmage dies driving off. He perserveres, but has lost most of his confidence, and eventually gets his staff and moves away from Roke, but is then tracked down by the shadow. But he grows up, and in the second book is archmage, havign acquired the kind of calm his teacher had, but he disdained, but is still cool.
[2] I didn't say 'good', I said 'defining' :)
http://www.ursulakleguin.com/Earthsea.html
GAH! Fuck. Well, I won't pass judgement until I've seen it, but Le Guin saying that is quite shocking.
[1] For those who don't know, Earthsea is one of the classic defining fantasy books, as evidenced by being, along with LOTR and HP[2], one of the very few mum likes. It's set on the Archipeligo, the vast cluster of islands the only land known. Ged comes from Gont, a goatherd, which surprisingly many wizards were, taught by a hedge-witch, saves his village from a raiding party, goes to Roke, the wizard isle, to study, being too arrogant for his own good gets into a dual and loses a 'shadow', which the archmage dies driving off. He perserveres, but has lost most of his confidence, and eventually gets his staff and moves away from Roke, but is then tracked down by the shadow. But he grows up, and in the second book is archmage, havign acquired the kind of calm his teacher had, but he disdained, but is still cool.
[2] I didn't say 'good', I said 'defining' :)