"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
I don't know yet how well this movie will play out, but I'm happy the design elements are at least somewhat restrained. I worried it would look like "Logan's Run."
I don't think that would have worked. In the book, that plot works because you don't realize until then that they can't see color. The idea of color as abstract concept that they can't grasp is not only central to the plot, but central to the realization that it's a dystopia, not a utopia.
The black-and-white-to-color trope is too common in films for it to work the way it did in Lowry's novel.
Haven't read the book, but the preview couldn't look more derivative and terrible.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
I've seen a different trailer where parts ARE in black and white, so I think that they may actually retain that for the beginning of the film until Jonas starts having his sessions with the Giver.
This was one of my favorite books as a kid and I was looking forward to this film, but they seem to have aged Jonas up from 12 to about 19, and swapped the quiet, building suspense of the novel for a very generic teen action movie feel, like Hunger Games or Percy Jackson. I understand why they made that choice, but this is just very disappointing.
The Giver is a really fantastic book. Anyone who hasn't read it, I strongly recommend it. It's short - maybe 150 pages, but really one of the deepest YA books you'll ever read. I taught the book in my 7th/8th grade class and we had some of the best discussions of the year from it.
That said, I'm VERY concerned about this movie. It doesn't look nearly as good as the book, or like they even got close...
When this was announced, I was kinda surprised that after all these years, a big budget Lois Lowry novel was being filmed. Then I remembered that The Giver could easily be fit into the current YA dystopia film mode
Hollywood seems to be hedging their bets on former teen Aussie soap star Brenton Thwaits going from a cheesy Blue Lagoon tv remake to leads in this and Maleficent. Phillips Noyce has directed great films (Dead Calm, etc) and some awful ones, but at least it promises to be stylish.
Here are Bridges's thoughts on Swift's performance.
"She's so sweet and such a good actress and, of course, a phenomenal songwriter and musician," Bridges, 64, said Thursday while promoting their new film together, The Giver at the annual Comic-Con event, held at the Hilton Bayfront Hotel in San Diego.
But could an acting career be in the pop and country star's future?
"Oh, yeah," replied Bridges. "I think so."
"Taylor was so terrific," Bridges said of her screen work. "Our scenes we had together – a lot of the scenes were at the piano, so both being lovers of music, we talked a lot of music and got to pick a little bit between set-ups."
I saw this over the weekend. The movie was very bizarre and kind of slow. It really would be strange to live in world with any emotion or feeling whatsoever. I was impressed with Swift's acting since this was her first dramatic role.