{"id":7348,"date":"2016-08-15T13:43:52","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T18:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=7348"},"modified":"2016-08-15T13:43:52","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T18:43:52","slug":"this-is-perfect-but-do-i-want-a-full-adaption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2016\/08\/15\/this-is-perfect-but-do-i-want-a-full-adaption\/","title":{"rendered":"This is perfect but do I want a full adaption?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/170107522\" width=\"560\" height=\"317\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/170107522\">&quot;Ancillary Justice&quot; book trailer<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/bironic\">bironic<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\nA pitch perfect book trailer for <cite><a href=\"\/books2\/2014\/02\/ancillary-justice-ann-leckie\/\">Ancillary Justice<\/a><\/cite>, done by the same person who did the wonderful <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/46927209\">Starships<\/a> video. It&#8217;s uncanny how the video manages to capture the setting and story using only <a href=\"https:\/\/bironic.dreamwidth.org\/340783.html\">pre-existing sources<\/a>. This got my imagination firing on how good a real movie or television series adaptation might look and yet. And yet&#8230; One of the things that sets <cite>Ancillary Justice<\/cite> apart is its use of pronouns and how we see the world through Breq&#8217;s eyes only, who is either unwilling or unable to make gender distinctions. Doing the same in a visual medium is much harder; the effect will be lost if we&#8217;re seeing actors who are &#8220;clearly male&#8221; or &#8220;clearly female&#8221; and they can&#8217;t all be Tilda Swinton. It would be a very different experience and one that needs lot of care and attention to get it right. I&#8217;m not sure anybody could do it right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Ancillary Justice&quot; book trailer from bironic on Vimeo. A pitch perfect book trailer for Ancillary Justice, done by the same person who did the wonderful Starships video. It&#8217;s uncanny how the video manages to capture the setting and story using only pre-existing sources. This got my imagination firing on how good a real movie or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,242],"tags":[1798,1799],"class_list":["post-7348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","category-video","tag-ancillary-justice","tag-ann-leckie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7349,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7348\/revisions\/7349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}