Okay, I admit to bawling my brains out at the end of the movie when I was a kid. What?! How could anyone not cry at the end?
Anyway, the movie actually followed the book very well. All the pertinent points of the story were there.
What they did not have in the movie did not detract from it at all. The minute details that filled the pages of the book were so neat. There's back story on Schmendrick and more details about Haggard and his lands. Lir's story is there as well.
Also the world has more people and places that fill the story.
I liked this book. As I read I watched the movie in my head when the scenes were the same.
Sigh. And now I have America singing the theme song to the movie stuck in my head. Brick wall here I come.
Have to say I've never read that one. This sounds like an interesting challenge!
ReplyDeleteI didn't know it was a book until I saw it on another blog doing this reading challenge too.
ReplyDeleteOnly I'm not just reading the 53 books in the challenge, I'm also reading other things too.
I loved this movie as a kid, beautiful, sad, and kind of scary. That harpy was freaky, and to this day I still remember that skeleton shouting, "Unicorn!" Scared the crap out of me when I was a kid (we saw it in the theater, and I hid during that part).
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure I read the book, but it was so long ago that it's still the movie that sticks out in my head. Might need to re-read it. :)
I love the movie still. i admit to still sniffle at the end. yes, the skeleton is very memorable. Rene Auberjonois did an amazing job voicing him.
Deletei don't remember if he scared me or not.
wow, just saw he voiced the chef in little mermaid! stunnage. i am flabbergasted.
DeleteI had no idea he voiced either character. That's awesome!
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