A Great and Terrible TRAGEDY?

After successfully re-re-re-re-reading (I'm not sure anymore how many times I've read it, but I know it's been at least two years since I last did) one of my favorite books of all time, A Great and Terrible Beauty, I went onto the official website. After looking around, unimpressed, for a while, I find an interesting link to youtube. And what did I find? THE MOVIE TRAILER.

Naturally, I heard a rumor a long time ago that it was being made into a movie. (The first one, seeing as it's part of a trilogy.) But I didn't really take it to heart. Of course, I imagined what it would be like, who would play each part... all that good stuff. And then I forgot.

Until today.

The trailer is good. Confusing, really confusing, and doesn't let on to any sort of plot, or characterization, or anything, really, but a fleeting montauge of pictures of deeply emotioned teenage girls in a Victorian era setting to a rather cool soundtrack. But seeing it appear, some tiny scenes of it just like I'd imagined it in my mind, was fun.

But now that my excitement is fading, seeing as the movie isn't coming out until "Winter 2010," and that Kartik is WAAAAAAAAY too old and not handsome enough, I'm quite sad. A movie is only going to ruin the story. I'm never going to be able to see the characters in my mind just like I'd imagined them in the first place ever again. Which saddens me deeply. It's Harry Potter all over again.

But what completely ticks me off? GEMMA'S UGLY. Sure, she's redheaded, but that doesn't have to make her look COMPLETLY washed out and... ugh. SO ugly. ANN is the ugly one, duh. Gemma is pretty in a mysterious way. And Felicity, at least the one I thought was Felicity, didn't look vain and controlling enough. Fee is one of my favorite characters, and if they don't get it right, I'm going to scream.

But the fact that Gemma's so... UGLY and not what I imagined her to be AT ALL... is ticking me off.

THEY SHOULDN'T MAKE THE COVERS OF BOOKS SO MISLEADING, BECAUSE WHEN THEY MAKE MOVIES AND THE ACTORS DON'T EVEN LOOK THE SAME NATIONALTIY, LET ALONE THE SAME GENDER, IT RUINS OUR HOPES AND DREAMS.

Okay, maybe not our hopes and dreams, but it totally messes up the little screenplay in our mind, and if we have to second-guess the stories we've entertained ourselves with, then what else are we going to start second-guess?

Exactly.