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Have you seen the movie,
THE GIVER ?
I had to see it.
It has some of my favorite actors:
Jeff Bridges
as The Giver
and
Meryl Streep
as Chief Elder.
Now I need to read the book.
We are a family of readers.
We read aloud to each other.
Some of us (adults) sit in the same room,
and some listen via the phone.
We are reading aloud through
Insurgent,
the 2012 science fiction young adult novel
by American novelist Veronica Roth.
It's the second book in the Divergent TRILOGY.
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THE GIVER
was actually around
long before
THE HUNGER GAMES
and DIVERGENT.
THE GIVER
is based
on the acclaimed 1993 novel by Lois Lowry.
It won the Newberry
Medal.
It
has been a staple
in middle-school literature curriculum for 20 years:
introducing young students
to sophisticated ethical and moral concepts.
Jeff Bridges has been attached
as a producer
to the film project for almost 20 years,
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REVIEW: THE GIVER
can’t help but feel awfully familiar in the wake of so many dystopian
teen sci-fi yarns.
THE HUNGER GAMES and DIVERGENT are both slicker,
sexier takes on essentially the same material, but it probably needs to
be remembered that THE GIVER
was actually around long before either franchise, with it being based
on the acclaimed 1993 novel.
So really, those films
(THE HUNGER GAMES and DIVERGENT)
are derivative of
this
rather than the other way around.
Read more at
http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/review-the-giver-349-02#0aRVP1AyKuUEvDRU.99
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http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/15/showbiz/movies/the-giver-review-ew/index.html
"There is a reason that Lois Lowry's 1993
book won the prestigious Newbery Medal and inspired millions of
readers—as well as other dystopian YA best-sellers like The Hunger
Games: It features children asking important questions and challenging
draconian authority."
updated 6:30 PM EDT, Fri August 15, 2014
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20 years ago, Lois Lowry's dystopian YA novel "The Giver" won the Newberry Medal. Creepy and prophetic, told in a kind of flat-affect voice, it has been a staple in middle-school literature curriculum ever since, introducing young students to sophisticated ethical and moral concepts that will help them recognize its precedents when they come to read the works of George Orwell or Aldous Huxley.
Jeff Bridges has been attached as a producer to the film project for almost 20 years, and finally, "The Giver" is here, with Bridges in the title role.
Directed by Phillip Noyce, with an adaptation of the book by Michael Mitnick, "The Giver" gives us the overall structure of Lowry's original work, adds a couple of understandable details like a sweet little romance and then derails into an action movie in its final sequence, complete with attacks from the air and a hi-tech command center.
Children have been thrilled by the book for 20 years, and a chase scene still proved irresistible. Despite a truly pained performance from Jeff Bridges and a beautifully imagined, three-dimensional futuristic world, "The Giver," in wanting to connect itself to more recent YA franchises, sacrifices subtlety, inference and power.
...a couple of lines have been added to the
famous last paragraph of the book.
Jeff Bridges
as The Giver
Meryl Streep
as Chief Elder
Brenton Thwaites
as Jonas
Alexander Skarsgård
as Jonas's father
Katie Holmes
as Jonas' mother
Odeya Rush
as Fiona
Cameron Monaghan
as Asher
Taylor Swift
as Rosemary
Director: Phillip Noyce
Writer:Michael Mitnick, Robert B. Weide
Book: Lois Lowry
Cinematograph: Ross Emery
Science Fiction
94 minutes
When I finish reading aloud
Insurgent to my family,
I will read Lois Lowry's book,
THE GIVER.
To learn more about Lois Lowry,
see her website at www.loislowry.com
"I will say that the whole concept of memory is one that interests me a great deal. I'm not sure why that is, but I've always been fascinated by the thought of what memory is and what it does and how it works and what we learn from it. And so I think probably that interest of my own and that particular subject was the origin, one of many, of The Giver."
Lois Lowry
To learn more about Lois Lowry,
see her website at www.loislowry.com
"I will say that the whole concept of memory is one that interests me a great deal. I'm not sure why that is, but I've always been fascinated by the thought of what memory is and what it does and how it works and what we learn from it. And so I think probably that interest of my own and that particular subject was the origin, one of many, of The Giver."
Lois Lowry
I encourage you to read aloud
to your family and friends...
to adults as well as children.
I love it
when my adult kids say to me:
"READ TO ME."
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