You had me at "fight choreography"

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New Clip from City of Bones

It's just. so. beautiful. And it's only really Lena Hedley! And the Russian dude from Pacific Rim! And Zipacna, because it was filmed in Canada, so obviously the Start To Cylon ratio has to be very small!

Oh, and I like the kids more than I thought I did. It's nice seeing them in a whole scene instead of just random lines. You get a better impression.

BUT SERIOUSLY. CAN WE TALK SOME MORE ABOUT GIRLS WHO KEEP THEIR HEADS DURING FIGHT SCENES? And, like, USE EVERYTHING INCLUDING THE KITCHEN SINK?

*breathes into a paper bag*

Related: Did I share those pictures of Aidan Turner as Luke? Because, um, well: it's the beard.

More pics of the Circle

No one is going to go see this with me.

Comments

[allisnow.livejournal.com]

I don't know anything about this series, but I love Lena... and the VFX were pretty good :)

[sholio]

*soooob* I don't WANT to see this movie, because I have Opinions on the author dating all the way back to the plagiarism thing. (It was her fic that got me into the Harry Potter books in the first place, but I've never been able to read anything of hers since it came out that she'd ripped off so much of it from other authors, and then lied and edited stuff trying to cover it up.)

But.

AIDAN TURNER IN LEATHER.

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

I hear you, but that was over ten years ago. She wasn't the only author who carelessly used other authors' work without credit at the time, not thinking of it as plagiarism but as homage; she just happened to be the most popular fic author who did so and therefore the focus for all the recriminations that followed. (I made a similar mistake myself, if it comes to that; I used someone else's poem in one of my HP fanfics, and only belately realized it could be mistaken for my own work and that I ought to credit it properly in the footnotes.)

And yes, the situation could have been better and more consistently handled, but she did apologize, get permission to use the material and give proper credit in the end. I'd like to think that people can learn and grow, and that things they did wrong ten years ago and haven't repeated since won't be held against them forever.

I'm not saying this as either a fan or a personal friend. I've never met CC, haven't corresponded with her in nearly ten years, and I haven't read any of her published books because I'm about 90% sure that I would bounce off them. But that's because I find the premise and mythology of her world not to my taste, and not because I bear her any grudge or doubt her abilities as a writer.

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

That is almost exactly what I was going to say (except I have met her, and she was AMAZING, and I have totally read all of her books).

But yeah. It's been a decade. If we don't learn and grow as artists, we turn into GRRM don't get published.

[sholio]

I do get what you're saying here, about not holding the mistakes of her youth forever against her. People do learn and grow. I think in this case, the issue is that it hit me really hard at the time, because I was a wee fan who was just getting into fandom, and I really looked up to her and admired her writing, and plagiarism was (and is) something that I have a really strong knee-jerk reaction to. Admiring her writing and praising it to other people, and then finding out that a lot of it wasn't her writing, was a blow; I've never been able to view her work in the same light that I did before.

... that said, I'm not running around organizing a pitchfork-and-torch brigade, and she seems like a nice person -- she seemed nice even at the time, from the limited contact I had with her when she was writing HP fic. She made mistakes; people do. I can't come to her work unbiased myself, but I certainly don't begrudge other people enjoying it, and I'm sorry if it came off that way in my earlier comment -- I was mostly just trying to explain why it's not for me, not dictate for anyone else that they shouldn't read it.

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

I do understand. It's hard to get over something that sours you on an author's work, however much you try to rationalize those reservations away. There are authors I can no longer read with pleasure for similar reasons. And no worries, you didn't come across as dictating to others what they should read -- or at least, it didn't seem that way to me.

[eldanna.livejournal.com]

Or me. Best that I'm in the theatre screaming in front of strangers instead.

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

That's my plan. :)

[tielan]

*laughs* I was thinking some of those faces looked familiar, but I suck at actual recognition.

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

Canada is so considerate like that. :)