what does it mean?
Is it inappropriate to ask a guy u hardly know his phone number cuz u know that u want to keep in touch with him when u may or may not or in foreseeable future have a crush on him?
Is it inappropriate to put your head on the shoulder of the person sitting next to u in the AC bus that u spend half ur life in, because it looks so comfortable?
Is it inappropriate to headbang to ur current favourite rock song, when u are in a public place?
Is it inappropriate to talk naughty on ur phone when people around you are clearly interested in what you are talking?
Is it inappropriate to love someone when that person has no idea that you even exist? (maybe not, more of useless isn't it?)
Is it inappropriate to ignore someone completely because you know it isn't going to end well, as it hasn't in the past?
Is it inappropriate to stare at someone you see on the road, who u know is very very familiar, but can't for some reason place where u know them from?
Is it inappropriate to ask someone you hardly know, personal stuff?
Is it inappropriate to brag and bore the person your talking to with personal stuff?
Is it inappropriate to make a person who's waiting for you, wait more cuz u decided waking up at so n so time would be enough to reach that place by that time?
Is it inappropriate to be partial to your favourites when others are just as much deserving as ur favourites?
Is it inappropriate to scratch when u are getting your daily quota of mosquito bites waiting for that bus that you've spent half your life in?
Is it inappropriate to sing loudly in the shower when u know very well that anyone else in their bathroom at the same time from your apartment building will be able to hear you?
Is it inappropriate to smile while trying to control laughter when you are being shouted at/ your teammates are being fired at?
Is it inappropriate to pry and peep over the shoulder of the person who acts like he has no better place to work than on the bus?
Is it inappropriate to open folders clearly marked personal on the persons pc/laptop you are using to check your mail?
Is it inappropriate to Facebook stalk a person you hardly know but really want to know about?
after all these dumb questions, I actually know what inappropriate is...
Its what is somewhat alright until the other person/persons/public etc find out about it and have nothing relatively more inappropriate to consider at that point in time
:)
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
The Book Lover/ Movie Theater Victim
The curse of the movie theatre has come to an end.. Yaay!! after 5 years of a movie per 2.5 years, it has progressed to 2 movies in three months! Now, if only there were movies being made that were worth watching... And new actors/actresses who actually know how to act and not just make us miserable watching their miserable attempt at acting..
Amongst other things, I realised that it makes no difference to me whether I've seen the latest hit movie or not.. Its just two days but even if someone asks me whether I've seen anything new, I say No.. Just as if the time I spent watching that movie doesn't exist.. And I only have a faint memory of sitting in the theatre too... But that may also be an effect of re-reading the whole inheritance cycle from cover to cover (no I'm not that bored, I actually always read cover to cover, word to word and no, I don't remember any books dedications) Finishing it in straight 3 days was no easy task, I tell you and the bookmark I used was a constant reminder of what all I'd kept aside to feel that rush again (it stated a reason on why I should use a bookmark, cuz u realise something stinks!! courtesy flipkart )
But that kind of rush, to live the life of the character, the attention to every little detail in the life of that character, it doesn't come through while watching a movie does it? (and all books made into movies are hopeless, with an exception of LOTR maybe and Narnia.. why do they even bother trying to cramp a book into a 2/3 hour movie? And worse, in some cases change the whole story? how can any author justify it?)
Most of the actors don't justify their characters too... The best example of that would be the twilight series.. While most of them to quote a friend look like dead lizards, other than in Twilight, I don't think they act better than dead lizards too... it pains me so much to watch them on screen that I gave up watching the series altogether.. I'm happy with my memories of the characters when I originally read it.. the movie has also succeeded in making sure I never reread the book again as well.. I still can't understand why all that hype?
there are so many tiny things that make the inheritance series perfect for movies scenes, like the ship that arya makes, and the time roran and katrina see it, and golden lilies, and burrow grubs.. But then again such things leave such a strong imprint on your mind that any difference between what you imagined it to be and its depiction in a movie will leave you disappointed.. Worse what if the movie makers think that this part needn't be in the movie to save time?
Maybe making a TV soap of it, like Game of Thrones (i haven't read that yet, so god only knows what changes the soap has) would make sense. Then every burrow grub would have its rightful share of screen space. Hopefully books as magnificent and not to mention large as the inheritance cycle would be next in line.. and not made into any more movies.. Eragon the movie was dismal enough..
In that way I laud the HP movie makers.. They found a way to make harry potter viral even with people who hate reading, ensuring more sales to bloomsbury.. If nothing else the actors were cast perfectly.. Even dead lizard ended up looking perfect on screen. But then I read Eragon and I grew up (Thank you so much Christopher Paolini for everything... Though keeping angelas life still a secret is a bit inconsiderate on your part.. Hope you get back to alagaesia soon!)
I think any person who loves reading would find such movies an abomination. Don't movie makers have anywhere else to get scripts from? but only a few of them get that right though.. Using inspiration from a book that is... Take Three Idiots , luckily it stayed at just that, an inspiration, the scriptwritor changed the story so much that it was unrecognizable.. The attempt by chetan bhagat to publicize his role in the movie was eventually useless, afterall what grounds did he have to prove that it was his story when its only role was that of an inspiration?
I think authors should now say it in writing that they don't want their books to be made into movies.. Did JRR make the book thinking it would be on motion screen one day? No rite... But does that stop his writing from being detailed and vivid? When I eventually write a book, I'll make sure I specify - no movie (not that its gonna be so popular to make into a movie.. But what's stopping hope??)
Amongst other things, I realised that it makes no difference to me whether I've seen the latest hit movie or not.. Its just two days but even if someone asks me whether I've seen anything new, I say No.. Just as if the time I spent watching that movie doesn't exist.. And I only have a faint memory of sitting in the theatre too... But that may also be an effect of re-reading the whole inheritance cycle from cover to cover (no I'm not that bored, I actually always read cover to cover, word to word and no, I don't remember any books dedications) Finishing it in straight 3 days was no easy task, I tell you and the bookmark I used was a constant reminder of what all I'd kept aside to feel that rush again (it stated a reason on why I should use a bookmark, cuz u realise something stinks!! courtesy flipkart )
But that kind of rush, to live the life of the character, the attention to every little detail in the life of that character, it doesn't come through while watching a movie does it? (and all books made into movies are hopeless, with an exception of LOTR maybe and Narnia.. why do they even bother trying to cramp a book into a 2/3 hour movie? And worse, in some cases change the whole story? how can any author justify it?)
Most of the actors don't justify their characters too... The best example of that would be the twilight series.. While most of them to quote a friend look like dead lizards, other than in Twilight, I don't think they act better than dead lizards too... it pains me so much to watch them on screen that I gave up watching the series altogether.. I'm happy with my memories of the characters when I originally read it.. the movie has also succeeded in making sure I never reread the book again as well.. I still can't understand why all that hype?
there are so many tiny things that make the inheritance series perfect for movies scenes, like the ship that arya makes, and the time roran and katrina see it, and golden lilies, and burrow grubs.. But then again such things leave such a strong imprint on your mind that any difference between what you imagined it to be and its depiction in a movie will leave you disappointed.. Worse what if the movie makers think that this part needn't be in the movie to save time?
Maybe making a TV soap of it, like Game of Thrones (i haven't read that yet, so god only knows what changes the soap has) would make sense. Then every burrow grub would have its rightful share of screen space. Hopefully books as magnificent and not to mention large as the inheritance cycle would be next in line.. and not made into any more movies.. Eragon the movie was dismal enough..
In that way I laud the HP movie makers.. They found a way to make harry potter viral even with people who hate reading, ensuring more sales to bloomsbury.. If nothing else the actors were cast perfectly.. Even dead lizard ended up looking perfect on screen. But then I read Eragon and I grew up (Thank you so much Christopher Paolini for everything... Though keeping angelas life still a secret is a bit inconsiderate on your part.. Hope you get back to alagaesia soon!)
I think any person who loves reading would find such movies an abomination. Don't movie makers have anywhere else to get scripts from? but only a few of them get that right though.. Using inspiration from a book that is... Take Three Idiots , luckily it stayed at just that, an inspiration, the scriptwritor changed the story so much that it was unrecognizable.. The attempt by chetan bhagat to publicize his role in the movie was eventually useless, afterall what grounds did he have to prove that it was his story when its only role was that of an inspiration?
I think authors should now say it in writing that they don't want their books to be made into movies.. Did JRR make the book thinking it would be on motion screen one day? No rite... But does that stop his writing from being detailed and vivid? When I eventually write a book, I'll make sure I specify - no movie (not that its gonna be so popular to make into a movie.. But what's stopping hope??)
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