Comments on: The Children of Men

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 14:31:04 +0000

Apparently it’s been re-issued, with Clive Owens on the cover. I’m not crazy about movie star covers myself.

I had another thought about the book/movie this morning: The book came out pre-cell phone, pre-Internet, pre-email. I wonder how they handle that in the movie?

By: Pauline

Pauline — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 10:43:56 +0000

I saw the movie and found it deeply disturbing (even weeks after I found myself thinking about it), and I was so surprised when I discovered it was adapted from a P.D.James book! I’ll read it if I can find it, thanks for the tip.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 01:20:06 +0000

So true. The movie might barely resemble the book. I was a little harsh on the book — I really did like it, and as a jumping off point, it could hardly be more relevant — but I’ve seen enough movies to know that the adaptation can occasionally be superior to the original.

By: Kempis

Kempis — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 22:52:18 +0000

Chances are the movie will lose a lot of what you remember from the book (“Weak Plot”, “Christian Sermonizing,” etc).

All that’s really needed is that one line summary you quoted as a jumping off point. Sometimes that’s all a film production company wants when it buys the film rights to a book- the concept and the fact that they can tie it to something that’s been published (the last being that something which is published becomes a worthy project and more easy to get financed because it’s been validated by another industry- publishing).

In any event it sounds interesting, so I will be keeping an eye out for it when it makes dvd.