Blog 5 book movie trailer

So for The Hunt for Red October the movie trailer look some what like the book and how the trailer had followed the book from the two minutes that I saw. For me I think that this movie would have to be close to 3 hours long because of how long the book is. For example look at Lord of The Rings all very long movies with close to the same amount of pages. I just looked up the time and it says it is 2 hours and 15 minutes which is shorter than I thought but that is still a longer movie. With is being Much shorter than what I thought they must have cut out some of the less important scenes from the book and there are a lot in my mind.
 As for the actors I think that Alec Baldwin was a good choice for Jack Ryan as he is a good actor for the situation and his voice is what I had in my mind, kind of like a deep but scratchy voice which I think is a good choice for him. As for Sean Connery playing Commander Marko Ramuis, I think they could have gotten somebody who is a little bit more Russian looking and less Scottish looking. I just didn't picture that in my mind and they could have gotten somebody who has a better Russian accent. The fact that they didn't do that is kind of disappointing.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWo0UnXyVkI


 

Blog 4 Book Adapations

So for most books that are made into movies, I would say most of them are pretty good in my mind but a lot of the authors that wrote the books think that the directors just murdered the adaptation. For The Hunt For Red October by Tom Clancy I don't think that it should have been made into a movie because there isn't a lot of dialogue and its more literature than anything so I would think that it would just be a long and boring 3 hours movie.

After reading some reviews of the movie a lot of people seemed to have thought that the movie was pretty good. I'm not sure how closely the book follows the book because I'm not very far. I haven't been able to find out what the author Tom Clancy thought about it so I'm not really going to guess.

For a lot of books made into movies like Lone Survivor I thought that the book which is a biography was good and I also thought that the movie was really good. I thought the cast for Marcus Latrell which was played by Mark Walhberg was very well casted.

Blog 3 Book Review

The Revenant by: Michael Punke

Publication Information: Picador  Pages: 252

Genre: Fiction

The book is a bout a fur trapper after he is attacked by a bear in the woods in the 1820's. After he is attacked he is left to die by 2 of his comrades. 

Hugh Glass is a frontiersmen and he is on a fur trapping expedition with his company. After a very short time in the woods he is out scouting when he is attacked by a grizzly bear. With Glass being unable to move and most likely die his friends left him to die and took his belongings. After being unconscious for a couple of days he woke up and went on a 3000 mile journey for revenge. With Indian attacks on the way. He was looking for revenge from the people that left him and robbed him of his items.  

Why do I read?

Why Do I Read?

I read because it is important. I think that it is important because it helps us gain knowledge and helps us understand the English language better.  I read because I think it is fun. It’s fun because if you can find a good book that you like it can take you to a different world, to a place that you could only imagine of. I would compare reading a book to being addicted to a drug because you just can't put it down. Like I just can't stop it just goes page by page and I can't stop. If I find a book that I just love I will read it so many time that I lose track of the times that I have read it. I think that everyone should read, not just school books because most people don’t like school books except for a few (The Catcher and the Rye) if you find a book that you really enjoy they you just can’t put it down, it truly is like being addicted to a drug. Most people who say that don’t like to read have just never found a book that they have never enjoyed reading before. If you have any doubt you should always read the book or at least start it and try to read it. That’s why I read and why I think you should read. 

I would recommend Airborne to everyone that likes to read because it is a good action and adventure. And this book has a lot of adventure. The best part of this book is when there trapped on the island and they start lying to the pirates to try to escape and then the pirates catch them in the act. I thought this book was ok and I wouldn't read it again but I would recommend it to most people.

" Matt Cruse has the life he has always dreamed of a cabin boy on the Aurora, a luxury passenger airship that sails hundreds of feet above the ocean. Then one night he meets the a dying balloonist who speaks of beautiful creature drifting through the skies who are completely real and utterly mysterious." Just by reading the back cover of the book makes me want to read what the dying balloonist has to say about the creatures no one has even seen

The book I chose for my summer reading project is Airborn by Kenneth Oppel. The main character in my book is a teenage boy named Matt Cruse who works on an Airship who's name has not been mentioned. The main setting of the book takes place on the airship over the pacifucus ocean or on the island that they crash landed on. So the main conflict I am at right now is that the airship just crashed on an island and the reason they crashed is because they were taken over by pirates. When the pirates were leaving the ship they messed with the ships fuel and caused them to lose so much they had to land.