I love the books, and the movie is great it's just that what was the point in changing it from English to American? There is no point, it doesn't make a lot of difference obviously but it would have been cool if it were British since that's where the books are set...
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haha dude you missed this argument by like 8 months...
shareI'm not trying to cause an argument 'dude', I'm just expressing my opinion. If you read my original post you'll see that I'm not judging or hating on it because it has been American-ised like so many other things.
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You are judging/hating as you said it is a "bit annoying" that it's been "American-ised". The writers/directors/actors etc. explain why it was changed to take place in America.
shareSaying something is 'a bit annoying' isn't hating on it, everyone has pet peeves and things they don't necessarily agree with, that doesn't mean that I'm saying it's somewhat 'bad', I just don't really see the point or agree with the decision to make everything in the movie American. The term I used 'American-ised' isn't judging or hating the movie either, I'm stating a fact, it has indeed been American-ised. If you don't like that term or find it offensive then sorry, but it isn't a judging/hating term.
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It is always annoying when anything is Americanised, for that usually means debasement, vulgarity, stupidity and ignorance replacing culture, taste, intelligence and reason.
sharecatluva, i was not trying to attack you or anything, it was just sarcasm. i was just joking around with you since there was a huge argument on this board throughout the year leading up the movies release about the movie made the book american. i know youre not trying to start an argument, i was just messing around, did not mean for you to feel like i was starting something with you. im not offended by your opinion or anything. hell im american and would not have minded seeing it set in europe either. i did read your original post, hence why i responed. it was just a joke, not an attack or anything.
shareYeah so true, i saw the books as british only so was shocked they based them as americans. Or it could have been irish since the real auther Darren Shan is irish!
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How did you see the books as British? I am shocked your saying there British. Oh, so an author who just happens to work in Britain there novel's alway's have to be based in Britain?
sharethe author was born in england...
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the author was born in england...
Welcome to the world we live in. Americans need to Americanize everything. Probably the best book series on the planet ruined by some *beep* director. These movies could have been bigger than TLOTR. Personally I think Tim Burton should have made them. They could have been his comeback and masterpiece.
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I think Harry Potter would of been better if it was set in America.
shareBrain cant comprehend what I just read. I'll pretend I didn't even see it and ill go on with my day.
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I hope you're joking. They would have been utter *beep* id they were set in America. And it's "would have" and not "would of"
sharedoesn't matter who the director is...the books sucked and this movie sucked even more..
what a joke the whole thing is...almost as bad as the twilight book series...ugh
Actually the reason was probably more due to convenience. If the film company is in America it is a lot easier and less expensive to shoot in America than in another country. Americans need to Americanize everything? You mean Americans Westernize everything... along with every Western nation.
sharecome to think of it, whilst i was watching the film i got the impression that somehow it should be british.
shareMe too. It was very offbeat in a British way. Kinda like Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Also, that setting in the suburbs with the parents. They were just so preppy looking (especially the dad with the sweater), and they had that old fashioned wallpaper...It looked like maybe it was supposed to be a stereotype of a super proper family (College, Job, Family!!!). There was a preppy British feel to it.
shareWhat make's you say they are in Britain?
I just read the first novel's and in no way did I get they were from England.
I thought it was Irish?
And when I found out that this was going to be an American movie, it greatly disappointed me... and I'm American. I always thought that that was part of the charm and it seems kinda necessary for the plot/setting. =/
I haven't read the books in like five years though, so I don't exactly remember. Loved the series though. Before Twilight even existed. Yet everyone wants to compare this to Twilight?
Egh.
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I'm just guessing, but he probably sold the rights to America for maximum profit.
I think the movie sucked b/c the script sucked, it had nothing to do with where it was made. Also, where in the book did it say it was British? I thought I remembered reading that Darren's hometown was half of a hemisphere away from Mr.Crepsleys, making England impossible. I could be wrong, I haven't read TOB in over five years.
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girls girls your all pretty now can we agree its an awesome movie and all be happy
shareI would have preferred that it be left the same setting as the books what ever that maybe I don't know
But the way he describes them traveling to places makes me think they have to be on the same continent as where Crepsley lived and I always thought that was some place like London.
But if you look up the name of the school Darren went to in Allies of the Night
Mahler's which was named after the composer Gustav Mahler who went to University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna
So it makes me wonder if the city that Crepsley was born in and the same city that they travel to twice in the books is maybe Vienna
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