What makes children's movies so magical? - Children and books

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00:00:05: Hello and welcome to the children and books.

00:00:09: And I'm happy that racing going out with me today we are talking about children movies and especially on

00:00:16: how would children movies evolves in in the timing through a 3 hours of Generations from now to everybody I'm very happy weekend today talk together again

00:00:31: hello from Scotland yeah it's lovely to be here again but today we're talking about books that have been made into movies.

00:00:41: And I guess we could think about it in terms of what it's like when our favourite book is made into a movie because sometimes.

00:00:51: Doesn't work out quite as well as we hoped yeah yeah.

00:01:05: Yeah well I was thinking of a couple is a book by.

00:01:13: Roald Dahl I think it's a Roald Dahl book Danny the Champion of the World.

00:01:21: You ever seen that movie not yet not yet it's it's a very old movie so it's it's a movie that was around maybe I don't know.

00:01:32: 30 years ago and my kids used to watch it when they were little and it's it's about a.

00:01:43: Who's lost his mum and it's sort of set in the 1950s in the British countryside and say the boy his mum has died and he lives with his dad and his dad's innkeeper.

00:01:57: So do you know what a gamekeeper is it.

00:02:00: The guy who looks after the pheasants and the Grouse birds on a big Estate.

00:02:09: Where where the people go and shoot the birds ok ok yeah

00:02:17: and then so yeah it's so it's it's about this boy and and how he wants to save all the pheasants from being shot.

00:02:26: Yes and so he.

00:02:31: He and his father workout away to trap the pheasants by putting a little sleeping drug into into a racing

00:02:41: yeah and they put the raisins and a little paper cone and saying when they took the car in the Conan's up on their beak.

00:02:51: And covers their eyes and so they just lie down.

00:02:55: Ok ok so what's a all lie down they go round and pick up all the presents so when the soul.

00:03:03: People from the big house the posh people go to offer their days shooting.

00:03:08: There's no pheasants anymore ok ok the problem because in the garage that they put all the sleeping birds

00:03:18: show in a Siddal Moor to be really funny

00:03:30: yeah but I think it's interesting when I think of the children movies.

00:03:39: Like all of the children movies I knew I know and it's like in my generation were books earlier online.

00:03:49: Remember one movie that was a earlier on and I mean

00:03:56: the one movie that is particularly in my mind right now is Pippi langstrumpf Pippi langstrumpf

00:04:03: yes I don't like everybody I mean to me I guess

00:04:15: and then I watch the movie.

00:04:19: Show me the last thing with a movie and the children's book was I was reading an of Green Gables

00:04:27: is the classical book I really enjoyed this ready Girl full of Life full of questions and she was just a very interesting type of

00:04:39: then I started to look and new movie about this

00:04:46: this book and I had to say it was too too many for me too much there is the girl in the film was talking like in the book but in the film it was too much too

00:04:58: and in the new foods sometimes they put violence.

00:05:03: Which isn't in the book I don't know why maybe they think it's more interesting then or in like to look at but I think

00:05:12: why you put it in let's let's let it like in the book there can be fine without that.

00:05:22: It would be nice yes.

00:05:24: And the other sings which I remember I remember more the films which we look together bronco when you were a child through the years a lot of very fantastic

00:05:36: movies for children with good with very interesting ideas course in movies you are so open to

00:05:45: change Samsung Note to have other scenes in a road which we normally don't have

00:05:51: haha yeah this very out in my head I don't have no title but.

00:06:02: I remember now this one book you you read ready player one and I just watched the movie ready Player One and.

00:06:12: What was the the book like for you it is not the children book it's a fantastic and science fiction book for adults about it is

00:06:22: really crazy and I couldn't stop to read it and I love science fiction to goods like a referee or this ready play ready player two

00:06:37: to see a just another word with with problems we never have and how they go how they

00:06:45: Heroes go through slice really.

00:06:52: It's like to look at and science fiction it's open for the mind and how is the film Blanca.

00:07:00: The film was just great I love that I love them it's all about like the it's all about

00:07:06: people not living on earth anymore but like living on Earth

00:07:10: only been in the metaverse only been like in VR and it's the kind of dystopian future

00:07:20: about humanity and it's just interesting how they played it out and everything and in the end it was a happy and

00:07:28: world got good again and someone but I just remembered

00:07:33: open Michael you have to read the book what's the movie and I was like ok that's let's watch movie and yeah yeah it was like really interesting.

00:07:44: Did you see the movie as well we've been or if you just Record Book

00:07:47: my problem is when I read a book and really loved it in this Holbeck universe which is detailed written down and in the movie you can only take 5%

00:08:01: a book and you put them other sings to its and you you go with music and all the things which is a little bit or changing the emotions of was looking it and I'm more enjoy

00:08:15: in a Vauxhall everytime I work and sinking do I really like too because it's like.

00:08:23: When I read the book I have my own pictures they are not so clear like Anna film but when I look at film then they are written down over it so my

00:08:35: unclear pictures are gone because the phone pictures of dominating it

00:08:47: not really I mean there's there's been some books that I've read and they've made films of which I.

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00:08:58: Yeah I've had that feeling that it's just didn't capture the essence of the book and then they said me.

00:09:08: Adult fiction books that I've read that I'm thinking about.

00:09:15: But also I have some children's books I've made made movies out of and I've been really delighted with the movies and so they captured something it may not have been

00:09:29: what I had specialised in my head but what they captured is is as good as or as beautiful.

00:09:36: There was one of the when they made a movie out of out of dicks the sheep pig when the movie babe that was.

00:09:51: That was really really special and because did you know the story in detail before yeah yeah yeah we all knew the story and yeah first book.

00:10:02: Objects that have been made into a film but we need to protect your telly to our listeners he is

00:10:08: in your family the auto was your grandparent yes he was his my husband's grandfather

00:10:15: Dick King-Smith this is a new point I think it's a very special point

00:10:21: when you have got emotional relation to the purse or you have written it on your own and then you make a film of it must be crazy well you know they were

00:10:34: but it was absolutely delighted because he didn't

00:10:37: he had no idea and he wasn't he wasn't a big businessman I will very kind of savvy with you know writing and selling the film rights and stuff like that you know I think it's all about

00:10:50: 10 years earlier you know much money but when he saw the film

00:10:56: he was absolutely delighted and the main characters particularly the main the lead male

00:11:05: in the film the farmer.

00:11:07: Yeah they had they had just captured him just this is very lonely this is a very busy so he was very very pleased.

00:11:21: And then and it wasn't in it is a beautiful film I don't know whether you've seen babes that move it yeah of course it's a lovely lovely film

00:11:32: and where is babe you know the sequel which had nothing to do with the books

00:11:37: movie called babe pig in the city I think yeah yeah and then and that's just nothing.

00:11:46: It's kind of not nothing to do with the original book it's just putting the pig in new so that didn't have the same residence.

00:11:57: Often it is when you have got one got books and they like to do another one film another one foot was it but it's not the same

00:12:06: transcendence better to let 111 film and there's a saying isn't nice to your head

00:12:16: yeah yeah and the other the other films that I am.

00:12:24: I enjoy and again they don't capture everything and they don't capture the whole essence of the story but I do love the Harry Potter films.

00:12:34: Yeah oh yeah definitely I need to say I really enjoyed it I love this details

00:12:42: that is everything done so nice live very big wireless teams are not so nice to me

00:12:50: badge the other words than it is nice to see you 10 yeah the magical world and you know the.

00:13:01: Like the magical Street in London that you'll get through yeah yeah.

00:13:08: Magical shops are and things like that yeah it's just beautiful the way it can be brought all that to life is all though.

00:13:20: I think that's another thing with when you visualise you have little images of stories that you're reading but when you're.

00:13:30: What your reading is beyond your experience role.

00:13:34: You don't know what it's going to look like and so yeah that could be great yeah

00:13:43: to have you no to have that kind of given to you in a movie as well yes it's like this is really I think it's good that you mention it because this is a film or a book

00:13:55: it's another kind that means here it's nice to have a film does it show you all the slide nice decoration and what they are imagining how it looks like I think we can look at it again and again.

00:14:10: When I think we're he was 70 we can look again Harry Potter interesting and nice for us.

00:14:22: Yeah yeah every book I read I can watch the movie as I was younger and I think I was 8 or 9.

00:14:33: And then later on I I watch all the movies and just cried because I.

00:14:38: The movies in the new world that emerge from from the movies were so inspiring and then I remember we were in London.

00:14:48: And I went to the Harry Potter museum memory to see it's alive this everything seems intent on.

00:15:05: Yeah medical medical and I think I would see this is a very good point 22 start stop here

00:15:12: tools to let this magical world I I hope or I wish everybody to find new films.

00:15:21: To go to a magical world's a little bit a little break of the reality it's when the movie finds the magic of the story that's what we like it.

00:15:33: Yeah this is true right yeah this is a point when it's fine then we really.

00:15:41: I really enjoy it.

00:15:46: Little Sherwood c let's go let's have a look which films are in the moment on

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