Aw, Gaiman, why you gotta play like that?
Neil Gaiman is scripting the James Cameron-assisted movie version of Journey to the West.

I feel really kinda queasy about this. There are no few Asian writers for whom this story came with their milk teeth, like Cinderella does to an English-speaker, and Gaiman has been...bad...about stuff relating to other cultures before. I really doubt that having been for a visit to China is enough to justify his treatment of the script.

(And let's not talk about James Cameron. Ick.)

Mercredigirl over at Dreamwidth has more to say.

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emily_goddess
2011-03-29 04:49 am UTC (link)

There was a perfect, marvelous occasion to prove that love can be an amazing, strong force, a statement which was made in the book itself, and not only was it totally ignored, the statement itself was completely fucking useless to the main character!

Wait, which "the book" are we talking about? I thought he did a decent job in The Lost Hero of giving Aphrodite's children some real powers.

I agree with what you said about Demeter, though. I'm hoping her poor treatment is just because there hasn't been a major character from that cabin yet.

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	the__ivorytower 2011-03-29 06:03 am UTC (link)
	I'm thinking of the last one. Aphrodite makes this huge deal about love being so valuable and important, and then when one of her daughters loses someone she loves a lot... well, I kind of expected it not to kill him to begin with, and when neither his own natural ability nor love saved him, I was sorely disappointed. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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