Have you ever though about the technical difficulties of making illustrated children's books of The Emperor's New Clothes? I mean, here's a story that explicitly deals with nakedness, but they always want to make it for children. Generally what they do, to avoid an In the Night Kitchen type fiasco, is make all the characters animals, but the ones illustrated with pictures of people make very good use of the "showing reactions instead of showing the thing itself" technique (that I know must have a name because it's used in movies all the time, but I don't know what the name is). Which is the point of the story after all--the people's reactions. I really don't like the ones that use too many strategically placed objects. It just seems too "fixed." I'd rather people just don't show things at all than use strategically placed objects. Unless they're just doing it to make fun of the "strategically placed objects" technique, which is not so much a technique as a crutch for the weak-minded. Alright, time for bed.
Posted by linnea at April 15, 2006 2:48 AMIt's even worse with children's illustrated Bibles that try to depict Adam and Eve. I mean, you can't even utilize the "reactions of the other people" technique, because well, how do you depict God's reaction (although, unlike Milton, I believe Adam and Eve were having sex before the fall, so maybe they did have children. Who knows?) So quite a few children grow up believing Adam and Eve spent most of their time in bushes.
Posted by: funke at April 15, 2006 9:56 AMI agree with Milton
Posted by: wilhamish at April 15, 2006 5:42 PMyou would.
Posted by: linnea at April 16, 2006 4:37 PMI think you should take this brother back and get a new one. I hope you kept the receipt.
Posted by: funke at April 17, 2006 1:23 AMI guess I would be in the category of weak-minded. I suppose God is the only one who can know all and then sometimes HE hides his face from us. I guess in a know-all, tell-all, see-all situation we really are an embarassing bunch. Which is why we try to have considration for one another....not necessarily a weak-minded thing.
Posted by: auntie at April 20, 2006 2:48 PMactually I was thinking more of the opening sequence of the Austin Powers movie than of Adam and Eve.
Posted by: linnea at April 22, 2006 10:02 PM