the clan of the cave bear is a 1986 film based on the book of the same name by jean m. auel and was directed by michael chapman .

the film stars daryl hannah , pamela reed , james remar , and thomas g. waites .

dialogue is conducted mostly through a form of sign language which is translated for the audience with subtitles .

the clan of the cave bear ( film )

the extraordinary image of girlhood at the center of clan of the cave bear .
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the music score of the the clan of the cave bear was created by alan silvestri .
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3 . the clan cave is based on shanidar but put in the crimean peninsula .
the clan of the cave bear , from imagine tv , allison shearmur prods . , fox 21 tv studios and lionsgate tv , was written by maleficent scribe linda woolverton based on jean m . auel’s series of bestselling novels . clan of the cave bear draws from the first book .
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this is a tv series based off the novel , the clan of the cave bear by jean m . auel . it was previously adapted as a movie ,
the clan of the cave bear was a film adaptation of the novel by the same name . it was produced by warner bros and released at 17 january 1986 . the film follows the plot of the novel , but large sections are skipped or fused .
the clan of the cave bear is a 1986 film based on the book of the same name by jean m . auel and was directed by michael chapman . the film stars daryl hannah , pamela reed , james remar , and thomas g . waites .
charlene mckenna ( a . d . : the bible continues ) has joined the cast of lifetime ’s drama pilot the clan of the cave bear , from imagine tv , allison shearmur prods . , fox 21 tv studios and lionsgate tv . written by maleficent scribe linda woolverton based on jean m . auel’s series of best - selling novels , clan of the cave bear draws from the first book .
clan of the cave bear takes place 25 , 000 years ago . it follows the life of ayla , a cromagnon girl , found by a clan , neanderthals , during their search for a new cave after a devastating earthquake . though ayla tries to become a good clan woman , her differences both in the way she looks and thinks often clash with their traditions and laws .
thirty - five thousand years ago , in the twilight of the neanderthal age , an orphaned cro - magnon child , ayla , is taken in by a primitive tribe known as the clan of the cave bear .
clan of the cave bear ( 1986 ) . jean m . auel adaptation / prehistory . stars : daryl hannah , james remar . director - michael chapman . moria - the science - fiction , horror and fantasy film review .
in this book , clan of the cave bear , ayla , a five year old youngster has lost her family in an earthquake . she wanders about until she starts becoming ill , and falls unconscious in a cave . what happens next , is the discovery of clan people finding her in the lion cave . they say she isn ' t clan , and want to leave her be , but iza a member of the clan with a heart , won ' t hear of it . she picks up the little girl ayla , and they take her along begrudingly .
but to remember the clan of the cave bear as paleo - porn is actually to misremember it . the novel is somber , harrowing , and decidedly unsexy . set between 25 , 000 and 35 , 000 years ago , the clan of the cave bear follows the young cro - magnon ayla , orphaned at age 5 after an earthquake , as she struggles to fit in with her adoptive neanderthal clan . as one of “the others , ” ayla is physically and intellectually more evolved than the people of the clan , who use hand signals instead of speech , who are incapable of learning and invention , and who therefore require oversized brains to store all the clan’s collective knowledge . although she is adopted by two powerful members of the clan , the medicine woman and shaman , ayla struggles to conform to the rigid expectations placed on clan women .
or it needs the muddy , exhausted desperation of the characters in
quest for fire ,
a movie that did feel like it took place in prehistory .
the clan of the cave bear
is about the first generation of designer cavemen .
the ending of
the clan of the cave bear
emphasizes its bankruptcy , because there isn ' t really an ending , just a conclusion - a romantic shot of the woman continuing on her lonely quest . the great failure of the movie is a failure of imagination .
british actress - model millie brady ( pride and prejudice and zombies ) has been cast as the lead in lifetime ’s drama pilot the clan of the cave bear , from imagine tv , allison shearmur prods . , fox 21 tv studios and lionsgate tv .
and while there is sex in the clan of the cave bear , ayla enjoys none of it . raped at 10 by her clan nemesis , broud , ayla endures forced sex until the age of 11 , when she gives birth to broud’s child . because of her child’s oversized head , ayla has a painful pregnancy and nearly dies in childbirth . when she’s 14 , broud casts her out of the clan for good , and the novel closes with her leaving behind her child and setting off alone .
the clan of the cave bear will not be moving forward at lifetime . i hear the cable network has passed on the fantasy drama pilot after not being able to reach an agreement with studio fox 21 tv studios over the size of a possible episodic order . i hear the network was looking to do the clan of the cave bear as a four - hour event series , a proposition that did not work for the studio for economic reasons as fox 21 has been seeking a regular cable series order . in light of the impasse between the two sides , i hear fox 21 already had been quietly shopping the project , receiving some preliminary interest .
heavy as the hammerstones with which its heroine makes her flint tools , the 500 - page the clan of the cave bear made a serious impact on the culture when it was published in 1980 . jean m . auel’s ice age tale about a young cro - magnon girl who grows up in a clan of neanderthals was a juggernaut of a novel : an instant best - seller , a nominee for an american book award , and the foundation for auel’s six - part earth’s children series , which has sold more than 45 million copies worldwide . but mention the clan of the cave bear and the earth’s children books to anyone who read it as a kid , and they’ll immediately start talking to you about the novel’s sex .
it’s striking how tedious the earth’s children books get as they get further away from the clan of the cave bear . ayla embarks on a career as a medicine woman , has some romantic entanglements before getting married and having a daughter , and tries to combat prejudice against neanderthals . the books are brimming with scenes of “pleasures , ” but it’s all noble and grown - up and terribly dull . because , after all , the true pleasures of the clan of the cave bear are not in the sex we all think we remember , but in ayla’s adolescent suffering and perseverance which makes her sexual awakening feel like such a revelation .
ya dystopias tend to end with some note about a hopeful future . auel does one better than that in the clan of the cave bear by making ayla the embodiment of that hopeful future . the novel reaches a trippy fever pitch during a ritual in which shamans link their minds together and eat the brain of a young man slain by a cave bear to absorb and disperse his courage . ayla stumbles into this cannibal mind - meld and has a vision of the extinction of the neanderthals and the future of her cro - magnon species . her vision also includes our present :
the injured ayla is discovered by the
clan of the cave bear
, a tribe of neanderthals under the leadership of creb . the clan takes ayla in and cares for her , though the desicion to do so is not universal . ayla ' s blond hair and blue eyes set her apart from the clan , and she is a member of
the others
, what the clan calls the cro - magnons . there have been struggles between the two groups . despite the objections , creb and his sister iza take ayla in and raise her . ayla grows up a member of the clan , though some refuse to accept her . as she gets older , her natural superior intelligence emerges and sets her apart even more . ayla has a greater grasp of language and mathematical concepts than the clan members do , and some people resent her for it . after ayla is brutally raped by a clan member she gives birth to a son , and it must be decided once and for all whether or not ayla should be allowed to stay with the clan .
written by maleficent scribe linda woolverton based on jean m . auel’s series of best - selling novels , the clan of the cave bear draws from the first book . it takes place at a time in prehistory more than 25 , 000 years ago when neanderthals shared the planet with the first early modern humans and a band of cave dwellers adopts blond and blue - eyed ayla ( brady ) , a child of the “others . ” as ayla matures into a young woman of spirit and courage , she must fight for survival against the jealous bigotry of broud , who one day will be clan leader .
' the encyclopedia revealed the most recent time in history when two phases of human evolution existed together – and one of those peoples were us , ' says auel , who learned library skills pursuing her mba . ' this felt like something i could really write about . it also gave me all the key terms – upper paleolithic , late pleistocene epoch , cro - magnon , interstadial . then i read archaeologist ralph solecki ' s book on his dig in the shanidar cave in iraq . the shanidar cave became the model for the clan of the cave bear society . '
many of the members of the clan resent her deeply , especially broud , who absolutely hates ayla ' s guts . all the way through the story this is true . the clan does adopt ayla eventually per iza ' s request , and she becomes her mother .
book 6 in jean auel ' s earth ' s children® series , the land of painted caves is the culmination of the saga begun with the clan of the cave bear . jean auel combines brilliant narrative skills and appealing characters with a remarkable re - creation of the way life was lived more than 25 , 000 years ago . more info : urltoken the land of painted caves is an exquisite achievement by one of the world ' s most beloved authors .
at a time in prehistory when neanderthals shared the earth with early homo sapiens , a band of cave - dwellers adopt blond and blue - eyed ayla , a child of the
others
. as ayla matures into a young woman of spirit and courage ( unlike other women of the clan ) , she must fight for survival against the jealous bigotry of broud , who will one day be clan leader .
adventure drama set in the last days of the neanderthals . the film opens with the discovery of a recently - orphaned cro - magnon child , ayla , who convinces the clan leaders to let her stay with them . as she grows into a beautiful young woman ( daryl hannah ) with strength and skill , ayla becomes critical of the demeaning treatment of the clan women and the brutal male seduction rites . she must fight for her survival , respect and , finally , acceptance from the clan .
ayla helps find the new cave , saves several lives , and acts as a respectable clan women , not as one of the others . while everyone else is getting used to ayla and her different appearence and ways , she is subtly frowned upon by a couple members of the clan ; this only adds to the persecution that is building up against her . there is one person among those in the clan who hates her with every fiber of his body , and for no reason in particular . this is broud , and it is unfortunate for ayla that he hates her , because he is the future clan leader .
the clan of the cave bear [ dvd ] : urltoken daryl hannah , amy cyr , pamela reed , rory l . crowley , james remar , colin doyle , thomas g . waites , john wardlow , curtis armstrong , john doolittle , jan de bont , michael chapman , gerald i . isenberg , michael austin , john sayles : dvd & blu - ray
during the development of meet ayla someone asked jean m . auel about the film that was made of the clan of the cave bear . auel confirmed that she hated the film , she actually sued the company that made it because she was supposed to have been allowed a say in how it was made . she did say that she would love to see the series made into films but that it probably isn ' t something she will let happen , she is going to leave the decision up to her children when she is gone . [ 3 ]
cooper even credits her coming to portland to a memorable 1980 speech by auel ( pronounced owl ) . cooper , then a library director in kenosha , wi , heard auel talk at a conference about how she managed to write her recently published first book , the clan of the cave bear . the new author ' s powerful words painted an image of the mcl that stayed with cooper for a decade .
jean auel in the cave of arbreda 13th july 2001 jean auel visiting the park of the prehistoric caves of serinya in preparation for her latest work , shelters of stone . the excavations are of the deposits of the reclau viver . from : urltoken see also : urltoken
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: ayla walked with the cave bear . she had spoken out for creb because she loved him . the sign had finally come . she understood the vision . durc was of the clan , and one day he would be their leader . she must find her own people . she must walk alone . everything she had lived through had prepared her for this journey - and she was not afraid . for the first time ayla felt the strength of her own spirit .
the movie dresses its actors in furs and skins , and has them walk about barefoot and talk in monosyllables . but it never quite makes them seem frightened and ignorant and vulnerable and bewildered . to capture the sense of wonder of those days when the human race reached its turning point ,
the clan of the cave bear
needs great images , not tidy little dramatic scenes with predictable conclusions . it needs sights such as the opening of
2001 : a space odyssey ,
when the bone went flying into the air .
as directed by the noted cinematographer michael chapman , ' ' the clan of the cave bear , ' ' which opens today at loews new york twin , has a gentle approach to its characters and an occasionally striking visual style . what it doesn ' t have is much momentum or originality . from the opening sequence , in which ayla is separated from her mother and adopted by the neaderthal tribe , to the ending that has her proclaiming her individuality and marching off toward a possible sequel , the film plods along evenly but uneventfully , so that very few individual scenes have a chance to stand out . one of the high points is the performance of a large brown bear , in a small but attention - getting role .
at a time in prehistory when neanderthals shared the earth with early homo sapiens , a band of cave - dwellers adopt blond and blue - eyed ayla , a child of the
others
. as ayla matures into a young woman of spirit and courage ( unlike other women of the clan ) , she must fight for survival against the jealous bigotry of broud , who will one day be clan leader . based on jean m . auel ' s popular book , there is minimal narration ; subtitles translate the neanderthal gestures and primitive spoken language .
though the national board of review named it one of the top 10 films of the year .
it takes place at a time in prehistory more than 25 , 000 years ago when neanderthals shared the planet with the first early modern humans and a band of cave dwellers adopts blond and blue - eyed ayla ( millie brady ) , a child of the “others . ” as ayla matures into a young woman of spirit and courage , she must fight for survival against the jealous bigotry of broud ( johnny ward ) , who one day will be clan leader . mckenna will play iza , brun’s ( hal ozsan ) sister and the clan’s medicine woman .
initial plans for the shelters of stone suggest that publisher expectations around the world have only been heightened by the extended hiatus . crown has announced an enormous hardcover first printing of 1 . 5 million copies for the upcoming book . it has already put out a 75 , 000 - copy special hardcover reprint of the clan of the cave bear , complete with a sneak preview of the first two chapters of shelters and a 25 , 000 – copy reprint for each of the other three works . in addition , the early fall foreign rights sales for the new book , and reprints of previous titles , hit a hefty $ 8 million six months before the spectacular international launch scheduled for dordogne , france , on april 30 .
and i had begun to see the individuals . the medicinal flowers gave me iza ( nezzie in transcription ) , the medicine woman , who first saw the orphan child and had compassion enough to pick her up and take her with them . the neanderthal with one eye and one arm gained dignity as creb , the holy man of great wisdom , whose willingness to accept a strange girl that was unlike his own people . a girl who was like us ! ayla grew up with the clan of the cave bear , but she could not stay with them .
the ballad of narayama
is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice , telling a story of startling cruelty . what a space it opens…
it was filmed in the regional district of okanagan - similkameen , a precursor to the many hollywood productions that would film in canada soon after ( see hollywood north and cinema of canada ) . the score was composed by alan silvestri . the movie is one of bart the bear ' s earliest roles . the muskox hunt was filmed just outside hughenden , alberta .
lascaux cave is unusually open , appearing to be mostly white owing to calcium carbonates that form into clear crystals on the walls . amazingly vivid paintings , uneroded by time , decorate several areas . in the book , ayla supposedly finds the cave before the paintings exist , and religious leaders believe it to be the pure white womb of the great earth mother herself . the cave also gives the zelandonii artists a magnificent space to fill down the line . but it was the contrast between the white walls and startling paintings that first took the author ' s breath away .
a7 : i don ' t have a good excuse . it took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline , and to finally finish an origin myth poem that i had been working on for twenty years . it also took time to work out the background details : the climate and landscape , the sites and localities . but i also have a family . my children were in high school and college when i first started writing the clan of the cave bear ; now i ' m a grandmother . life sometimes gets in the way of writing .
at its core , cave bear is speculative fiction about a young girl’s survival and resilience in an elaborately imagined authoritarian society . sound familiar ? it’s the same narrative engine that powers the hunger games , divergent and the myriad novels of the young - adult dystopia explosion of the last half - decade . auel may not have known she was writing about a precursor to katniss everdeen—but that’s how a whole generation of teens received ayla .
' ' the clan of the cave bear , ' ' a big , scenic adaptation of jean m . auel ' s best - selling novel , travels eons backward in time in order to tell the audience things it already knows . it concerns a cro - magnon foundling named ayla , who is raised by neanderthals and inculcated with their sexist , oppressive ways , only to rise up as history ' s first free - thinking woman warrior . the film chooses to lean heavily upon these stereotypes , at the expense of the behavioral and anthropological detail that has enlivened the best of the cinematic cavemen , most notably in ' ' 2001 : a space odyssey ' ' and ' ' quest for fire . ' '
answer : it ' s really just sort of sheer imagination . often i start with letters of the alphabet , or syllables , and i ' ll write ab , ac , ad , and ba , ca , and so on until they feel right . and after a while sort of a pattern will develop for each particular group of people with maybe some anomalies there might be similar endings on names . with ' the clan of the cave bear ' i tried , since i had decided with the particular point of view that ' s primarily proposed by professor liebermann at brown university , that there was some limitation in the neanderthal ' s ability to communicate .
subsequent career : chapman’s next directorial outings were even less auspicious ( the bizarre revisionist neander - romp “ the clan of the cave bear ” and 1995’s honkingly dull “ the viking sagas ” ) but he remained primarily a dp , often on rather soggy comedies like “ ghostbusters ii , ” “ doc hollywood ” “ evolution ” and “ kindergarten cop ” as well as thrillers ” the lost boys , ” “ rising sun ” “ the fugitive , ” and “ primal fear ” most recently shooting traumatic kids movie “ bridge to terabithia ” in 2007 .
, which took its audience . not helping matters were the negative reviews the film got at the time , though the film ' s visuals were praised and influenced the look of many science fiction films for years to come . this became
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now we are in france . . . and we have reached the area where we have the evidence of the art that was first invented . . . and this is the cave art that you find in southwest france .
what was it like , back there at the dawn of time ? what was it like to be a human being , and yet have none of the things we take for granted , such as houses , feminism and shoes ? how did we take that first great leap out of the caves and into the iron age ? or , if you really want to get idealistic about it , that leap out of the rain and into the caves ?
the clan of the cave bear
attempts to answer those questions by making a great leap backward in the imagination , to that precise moment when the first cro - magnons were moving in , and the last neanderthals were becoming obsolete . unfortunately , the movie never really does reconcile itself to the prehistoric past .
it’s telling that auel wrote the clan of the cave bear at 40 , after her career in business stalled out when she hit what she describes as a “glass ceiling . ” time and again , after ayla is told women can’t do something , she does it anyway—better than the men . it’s easy to point out how over - the - top this depiction of girl power feels now , but this was an extraordinary representation of girlhood for the 1980s , especially for young female readers . early in the novel , clan leader brun remarks on ayla’s difference and sums up her appeal to readers : “everything about her was unprecendented , and she was still a child . ” by the time she reaches the age katniss and tris are in the first books of their respective series , ayla has already become a skilled hunter , a gritty survivor , and a protective mother .
ayla is suffering discrimination because she does not look like the people in her adopted clan . the medicine woman , iza who found her dies after a long winter , and ayla is left to defend herself against borud , the clan ' s new leader . he rapes her to belittle her , except it is not called rape , it is called letting men relieve themselves of her . the clan ' s opinions of sex are very strange , because they believe instead of semen impregnating women , it is when a soul ' s spirit enters another through the mouth . women are expected to obey or be punished by being beaten .
imdb gives the film a 5 . 2 ( out of 10 ) based on 4 , 170 ratings . [ 2 ]
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at the same time , a group of the
clan
people were also moving ; the cave that had served as their home had been destroyed due to the earthquake . they spot this child named ayla , and decided to leave her there , mainly because she was different and because she was of no use to them . but before they left , the childless medicine women sees ayla and wants to help her . she is allowed to do so , and eventually ayla becomes accepted into the clan and is believed to be good luck for many reasons , she is even allowed to train as the next medicine women .
for anyone who has lived on another literary planet for the past 22 years , ayla is the cro - magnon child orphaned by an earthquake some 25 , 000 to 30 , 000 years ago and then adopted by a band of neanderthals in the clan of the cave bear ( 1980 ) . she is eventually banished to a living death by a jealous leader and leaves behind a child of mixed blood . the teenager then learns to survive on her own – tames horses , a large wolf , and an even larger cave lion – and saves the handsome jondalar from sure death in the valley of horses ( 1982 ) . finally , in the mammoth hunters ( 1985 ) and the plains of passage ( 1990 ) , the lovers and their animals take on an arduous year - long journey back to jondalar ' s people and a place where the pregnant ayla can , one hopes , raise a family among her own kind .
brighton beach memoirs ( 1986 ) — budget , $ 18 million . box office , $ 11 , 957 , 943 . the film version of neil simon ' s play , the first of his eugene trilogy , was the penultimate film directed by gene saks .
finally , once i made that decision , i rewrote the story that i called the clan of the cave bear , and rewrote it probably four complete times , and sections of it , maybe , thirty or forty times . i began to feel like i had a story . and from nineteen seventy seven to this point , which was about the end of nineteen seventy eight , it took slightly a little less than two years to have a finished novel on twenty weight bond paper , typed , finished draft , the whole thing . it was about two hundred thousand words long , and i had an outline for five more books and all i needed was a publisher .
i enjoyed the film very much and glad i bought it despite the negative reviews . there is only so much of an epic novel you can fit in one film and i think it was done to the best effect possible . yes the book is fantastic and amazing , but if you want an easy evening doing nothing then the film is great too .
during the evolution of humanity there may have been a brief moment in time when neanderthals and cro - magnons ( modern man ) coexisted . this is the subject of this novel that takes place in prehistoric europe . the novel opens with a terrible earthquake , in which a five year old cro - magnon girl is orphaned . alone , young ayla wanders the countryside sleeping in a cave , until one day she is attacked by a cave lion .
it ' s a very difficult thing . . . in a way . . . you have to walk a fine line to write a novel in a series that is also a novel . . . it ' s an independent one and i ' ve tried to do that with every one . . . you know . . . so even with clan of the cave bear in the beginning . . . i knew there was going to be much more to follow and i knew i was putting clues into that that i wouldn ' t pick up until i got into the shelters of stone which i have now started to do .
iza encourages ayla , all the way through the book as well , to find the others like herself . ayla , due to circumstances on broud ' s part is forced to leave the clan eventually and wanders away trying to find the others .
the drama takes place at a time in prehistory more than 25 , 000 years ago when neanderthals shared the planet with the first early modern humans and a band of cave dwellers adopts blond and blue - eyed ayla ( millie brady ) , a child of the “others . ” as ayla matures into a young woman of spirit and courage , she must fight for survival against the jealous bigotry of broud ( johnny ward ) , who one day will be clan leader . charlene mckenna and hal ozsan co - star in what has been lifetime’s only outstanding pilot .
after the success of her first book , the author formed relationships with several prominent scientists in the field and periodically went to europe to see locales or important finds firsthand . she even worked digs and found half a 30 , 000 - year - old cro - magnon blade while researching the shelters of stone . but it was a trip to the dramatic lascaux cave in france that produced a pivotal part of the current book . ayla discovers this exact cave , and it becomes an important , highly spiritual place for jondalar ' s people .
) for lost revenue . this did not stop uwe boll from starting a series of films when the film sold well on dvd . . .
directorial debut : “johnny suede” ( 1991 ) dicillo’s first film landed at sundance in 1991 , launching the career of its leading man , one william bradley pitt . the future megastar plays the title character , an aspiring rock star with a truly impressive haircut and a nifty pair of shoes . catherine keener and nick cave are also among the cast for the film , which became something of a cult classic . it’s still perhaps a little too in thrall to dicillo’s friend and mentor , but there’s a lot to like here nevertheless , not least the rockabilly soundtrack .
ayla had to learn clan ways and customs along with every other member in the book . but it is never easy for her with broud ' s open hatred . she learns how to hunt , which women are strictly forbidden to do in the clan , and iza teaches her medicine skills along the way . later , when broud finds out about ayla ' s ability to hunt , she is in deep trouble and severely punished .
( 2015 ) starring millie brady as ayla but this failed to go anywhere beyond a pilot film .
because the film cost us $ 15 million to produce and brought in only us $ 1 . 9 million domestically , it is considered a box office flop . the film was nominated for an oscar in 1987 for best makeup ( michael westmore and michèle burke ) . the film currently holds a 10 % rating on rotten tomatoes based on 10 reviews .
in the 1986 feature adaptation of the book , the lead role of ayla was played by daryl hannah .
with the publication of the valley of the horses in 1982 , auel made a sharp turn toward romance . the ice age becomes oddly ( and , likely , ahistorically ) utopian , full of great earth mother - worshipping cro - magnons with egalitarian societies . the novel details three years ayla spends alone , inventing horseback riding and taming a cave lion . it also introduces jondalar , a handsome , sensitive , well - endowed cro - magnon on his own epic journey , who eventually needs rescuing by ayla after a run - in with her pet cave lion .
brainstorm ( 1983 ) — budget , $ 18 million . box office , $ 10 . 2 million . this sci - fi film was the final film for natalie wood , who died just after filming her scenes . mgm attempted to scrap the film after her death , but director douglas trumbull pushed back and got the film finished after making adjustments . it went onto the shelf of movie languishment for over a year and was released in september with invisible advertising . trumbull was so exhausted by the executive meddling that he retired from mainstream filmmaking until the tree of life .
this novel takes place in a prehistoric setting , approximately 35 , 000 years ago . during this time , there were two prominant species of what will become humans . they are the others , which are very similar to the modern human , and the clan , which resemble neanderthals .
astro boy ( 2009 ) — budget , $ 65 million . box office , $ 39 , 886 , 986 . the losses of the film sucked producer imagi studios into a black hole of debt .
during one of the many interviews with jean auel when the 4th book was released , one statement she made remains in my memory . she disclosed that ayla would live to be 42 years old . since she is about 18 when they reach the zelandonii cave , i would look for the 5th book to cover up to perhaps 20 years . obviously , there will be cultural clashes , but there are indications the zelandonii can learn . trading can be established with guban ' s cave . danug from the mamutoi will visit .
i loved this film . i read all of the books in the series and really enjoyed them . this film ended a bit abruptly ; like they intended to make more films to carry on the series but then never did . what a shame . brilliant way the characters spoke with gestures and you got the subtitles to show what it meant . when i saw the film had subtitles i thought it meant the commentary / narration but they wasn ' t so ; only the gestures and grunts of the language were subtitled .
bigger than the sky ( 2005 ) — budget , $ 750 , 000 . box office , $ 21 , 398 . this film was dumped into limited release to fulfill a contractual obligation with mgm and the films producers that the studio inherited from orion pictures .
brother bear ( 2003 ) — budget , $ 128 million . box office , $ 85 , 336 , 277 ( domestic ) , $ 250 , 397 , 798 ( worldwide ) . one of the last disney films to be made in 2d animation before their switch to cgi , starting with chicken little . it is also the most recent disney film to have a direct - to - video sequel .
blood red ( 1989 ) — budget , unknown . box office , $ 15 , 510 . despite having well - known actors such as eric roberts and dennis hopper in the cast , this film was dumped into theaters after being on the shelf of movie languishment for three years . is a footnote in history for being julia roberts ' film debut and the only film she and brother eric acted in together .
the beans of egypt , maine ( 1994 ) — budget , unknown . box office , $ 73 , 956 . jennifer warren ' s directorial debut . she only directed one more film in 2000 and stuck mainly to acting . part of a series of bombs that derailed i . r . s . records ' ill - fated film division .
action point ( 2018 ) — budget , $ 19 million . box office , $ 5 , 059 , 608 ( domestic ) . this was the lowest - grossing opening weekend of johnny knoxville ' s film career . paramount quickly pulled the plug on this film after less than two weeks .
the adventures of baron munchausen ( 1988 ) — budget , $ 46 . 63 million . box office , $ 8 , 083 , 123 . this film ' s implosion , along with the severe financial failure of ishtar and to a lesser extent other movies such as leonard part 6 , led to columbia merging with tristar and coca - cola selling their whole film business to sony . it didn ' t help that the film was released that only 117 prints were made for the american market , which is unusual for a film of this budget . the film also did not get production company allied filmmakers off to the start they would have hoped for , with most of the label ' s films being a critical flop , a commercial flop , or a flop of both kinds . that said , this is one of the films that is an acclaimed flop , having a 92 % on rotten tomatoes .
having read the earth ' s children series of books by jean m . auel , i thought i should watch the film that was made about the first book . kind of wish i hadn ' t . not really worth it .
love this film - i think it ' s as close to the book as you could get on film given that the clans '
language
is non - verbal with subtle nuances of touch and expression . i first saw this film on video about 15yrs ago & didn ' t realise it was still around , or on dvd so i was very pleased i could get it on - line at a good price
- the present of feathers / the waffle of iron ( 2016 ) . . . bill ( voice )
she found her own way back to herself , and then a little beyond . she had a fleeting glimpse of the cave again , followed by a confusing kaleidoscope of landscapes , laid out not with the randomness of nature , but in regular patterns . boxlike structures reared up from the earth and long ribbons of stone spread out , along which strange animals crawled at great speeds ; huge birds flew without flapping their wings .
anomalisa ( 2015 ) — budget , $ 8 million . box office , $ 5 , 531 , 455 . it received glowing reviews and became the first r - rated film to be nominated for the best animated film oscar , but it was only in 573 theaters .
ayla’s telepathic time travel to the 20 th century is a neat trick that invites us to see ourselves as her descendants . even as the novel ends with ayla cast off and alone , we understand that she’ll be all right . and we understand that our world will be all right , too , because we are just as resourceful and imaginative as ayla is . it’s no wonder that cave bear ended up on so many recommended reading lists for kids despite its depictions of sexual violence and frank treatment of topics like contraception and abortion : it’s a truly triumphant tale not just about one girl’s coming of age , but about humanity’s .
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the shelters of stone is the fifth in the series . . . that i ' ve called earth ' s children . . . because this is the time of the childhood of the human race . this is the beginning of when modern humans first appeared in europe .
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being human ( 1994 ) — budget , $ 40 million . box office , $ 1 , 519 , 366 . the victim of executive meddling which resulted in director bill forsyth disowning the film .
the big kahuna ( 2000 ) — budget , $ 7 million . box office , $ 3 , 728 , 888 . john swanbeck ' s directorial debut and his only film until the blue diamond , which is scheduled for next year . screenwriter roger rueff , who adapted his own play hospitality suite into this film , didn ' t have another film credit until he remade his play into a 2016 short .
bicentennial man ( 1999 ) — budget , $ 100 million . box office , $ 87 , 423 , 861 . a hard hit to robin williams ' s career , and the film that led to his second feud with the walt disney company , who produced this film alongside columbia .
black book ( 2006 ) — budget , $ 21 million . box office , $ 26 . 7 million . while this film was critically well received , won a good deal of awards , and was successful in the netherlands , it didn ' t prevent the careers of paul verhoeven , producer jeroen beker , and writer gerard soeteman from taking serious damage . verhoeven didn ' t get another film credit for six years , and beker and soeteman don ' t have any credits at all after this film . lead actress carice van houten received international attention due to this film , and several years later would take on the role of a certain red priestess that would propel her career across the globe .
the big picture ( 1989 ) — budget , $ 5 million . box office , $ 117 , 463 . after this film , richard gilbert abramson never produced another theatrically - released film ( his next project was theodore rex , which was denied a cinema run ) .
very difficult to translate the book into film and the language being confined to grunts did not make for an enjoyable watch as it was stilted . going to read the book to see if i can make sense of it
movies was burned down by critics and crushed the cinematic 3d movie until the end of the 2000 ' s , as well as being part of a chain of busts that ended the long main career of director richard fleischer . future
was released during the hiatus . director jean - pierre jeunet did not do another film on american soil until 2013 , and it did critical damage to the career of producer gordon carroll , who only did
the apparition ( 2012 ) — budget , $ 17 million . box office , $ 9 , 627 , 492 . the last horror film warner bros released by itself before it started using new line cinema for that purpose . the film was panned by critics and audiences alike and faced competition from the better - received the possession by lionsgate .
all good things ( 2010 ) — budget , $ 20 million . box office , $ 873 , 617 . documentary filmmaker andrew jarecki ' s narrative film debut was loosely based on the life of accused murderer robert durst . it was shoved to a limited release after it spent over a year on the shelf of movie languishment . jarecki ' s documented the real durst for his next film as director , the jinx : the life and deaths of robert durst .
blindness ( 2008 ) — budget , $ 25 million . box office , $ 19 , 844 , 979 . this film version of don mc kellar ' s sci - fi novel centered on a sudden epidemic of blindness . it dealt with protests from blindness advocates over the film ' s portrayal of blind people . it appeared on some critics top 10 lists , but its reception was mixed overall .
analyze that ( 2002 ) — budget , $ 60 million . box office , $ 55 , 003 , 135 . this sequel to analyze this fell short of the critical and financial success of the original . any ideas of a third film were gunned down after this installment fell short .
the butcher ' s wife ( 1991 ) — budget , unknown . box office , $ 9 , 689 , 816 . this critically trashed fantasy comedy was the only feature film directed by terry hughes , whose tv career still survives . this was also the only film credit for screenwriters ezra litwak and marjorie schwartz .
it was a unique time in our prehistory , when two different kinds of humans lived together . a perfect setting , it seemed to me , for new , fresh , and exciting fiction . why fiction ? i suppose because i started with a story in mind , but also , because in the course of researching for the story , i discovered the humanity of those ancient ancestors . the views of the general public lag behind the academic community by many years in most scientific disciplines . but the gap between the commonly held view of prehistoric stone age cave man and the scientists understanding of the upper paleolithic ice age populations is even more vast than the 35 000 years that separate us . the reading absorbed me and made fire of my imagination .
answer : it ' s really difficult to pin point the input of an editor . my first editor , the one who fell in love with the clan of the cave bear , has since left crown publishers , and is now with dell / delacorte ( bantam dell and delacorte are part of the even bigger random house group ) as publisher , so for the valley of horses and the mammoth hunters , i ' ve had a different editor , betty crashderet , at crown . one of the things of writing a book , at least it ' s been my experience , that editors of writers of books do not make arbitrary changes on your book . they do not say - they do not mark things in your book . apparently that happens more so in freelance writing for magazines and newspapers and stuff , or even if you ' re just on the staff . editors can just come in and change a lot of things . in writing books , mostly what happens is an editor will go through - and its another pair of eyes , it looks at your work , and they suggest , ( well , i think that this doesn ' t fit together ) , or ( this would be clearer if you . . . ) , ( how about clarifying this ) , and then i take it back and redo those writings if i choose to .


the art of being straight is a 2008 film by jesse rosen on malvern productions .

he also wrote the screenplay and plays the lead role of jon .

the film explores jon 's unexpected search for identity .

the film was an official selection at the 2008 frameline film festival ( san francisco lgbt film festival ) and the philadelphia international gay & lesbian film festival

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the art of being straight is a movie starring jesse janzen , tyler jenich , and bryan mcgowan . a sexy , comedic drama about two college friends questioning their careers and sexuality in east los angeles .
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you gave jon the quality of being able to get any girl he wants . so you make it clear that being hard up isn’t the reason he sleeps with paul .
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jesse rosen ' s microbudgeted indie , in which he also stars , explores the issue of sexual identity in a way that is meant to be thoughtful and provocative but which has little more depth than the old joke about bisexuality being a good way to double your chances for a date on a saturday night .
the art of being straight
is far from the worst of the recent plethora of gay - themed films , but its best chances of exposure will be on vod .
with surprisingly good acting and a smart script , the art of being straight takes a nuanced approach to young adults ' struggles with sexuality issues . the film failed to significantly grapple with issues of how the other people in the characters ' lives might react and the impact of that reaction , which is unfortunate because it leaves the film feeling incomplete . nevertheless , the film is funny , intelligent and well worth watching .
the buzz around the release of the art of being normal has been crazy ! so many of my trusted friends and fellow reviewers have loved it so the pressure was on when i chose to read it myself . williamson has created a novel i wish had been written years ago . it’s incredibly brave – i don’t think there’s anything too similar to it published at the moment – and it stands out because of its themes and content . however , i’m sad because i wish there were more books just like the art of being normal . i’m
a gay internet connection is made , but entanglements ensue due to hiding behind the name and photo of a straight male stripper who happens to return to the area .
this film is about a young man who moves to los angeles to pursue his dreams . his life gets complicated when his boss takes a special interest in him .
the art of being straight
is a realistic down to earth story . the lead character jesse rosen is handsome and is convincing as a confused man . however , the story telling is not so good . it fails to create tension or suspense . there is little to stir the emotions of viewers , which i find a fatal flaw . the only interesting character is rachel castillo , whose performance is the most natural and convincing . i guess
the art of being straight
might be an autobiographical account from the writer . it is not terrible , it is not particularly entertaining either .
the art of being straight is now playing at quad cinema on w . 13 th street in nyc and opens june 12th in la @ the laemmle music hall theatre in beverly hills . ft . lauderdale , palm springs , and columbus , ohio to follow . check your local lgbt film fest calendar . it’s also running on here tv and here on demand .
it ' s not easy being attracted to guys when you are stuck in a straight man ' s body . . . at least that ' s the hurdle josh ( jesse rosen ) appears to face after he arrives in la to begin a new life . surrounded by his exclusively hetero friends , josh is more than happy to be a willing participant in their world of bars , booze and loose women - after all he has just come out of a long term relationship with a girl . but things start to get complicated after he begins work at an advertising agency , and meets paul , a sexy ad director , who won ' t take ' straight ' for an answer ! littered with smart dialogue and brilliantly subtle performances the art of being straight is a savvy , comic story about the fluidity of sexuality and the bonds between people that transcend stereotype .
but she hasn’t just been hiding the dramatic plot of the movie from the public .
we discover that jon’s presumably straight sexual history up to this point hasn’t been quite as straight as it appears , when he confesses to paul that he got drunk and fooled around with a guy back in high school . when did you first have feelings for guys ?
all this might portend a certain harshness in my response to the affable “art of being straight , ” but rather i’m just trying to impress that good - natured dv debuts deserve their critical fair shakes as much as any larger - scale indie or even studio product ( something that those who leave irate comments on reviews don’t quite understand ) . and inoffensive as it is , rosen’s personal soul - searcher is certainly rickety , featuring all the signs of being unpurposefully unpolished ( clunky editing within conversations , overreliance on stultifying close - ups , anonymous spaces stripped of personality standing in for viable art direction , sloppy scene transitions that often seem to go on a beat too long ) and many hallmarks of the indie playbook , including a heavy dose of wimp - rock on the soundtrack–here courtesy of the musical theatre–and even blink - and - miss cameos from those purveyors of dull non - conversation - making , joe swanberg and greta gerwig , hanging out at a party .
the title is the cleverest thing about this minor indie portrait of sexual confusion .
lisa williamson ' s the art of being normal is a moving , well - written reminder of how brutal , yet how beautiful , the world can be to those who are different . david piper has really never fit in . apart from his two best friends , most of his fellow high school students ridicule him for being different . one of the school bullies has called him
freak show
since they were younger , but david is willing to wait him out until high school ends . his parents think he is gay , and are waiting for him to tel
jon tells maddy , his female friend who has a girlfriend , first , then comes out to his straight best friend . what was your coming out process like ?
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in college , i started to become more curious about guys , but somehow had been pigeon - holed as being straight , and either never felt like i had the opportunity , or just wasn’t attracted enough to any one particular man to make the effort . i’d fantasize , and then in reality , fantasy was always far superior .
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it ' s high time the world of ya fiction had a real contender in the t corner of the lgbt spectrum , and lisa williamson stands up to the plate magnificently . ' the art of being normal ' follows david , who stumbles through the minefield of high school and puberty knowing in his heart that everything is wrong . . . because he wants to be a girl , knows he is supposed to be girl . navigating bullies gets a little easier for him though with a well aimed punch from leo denton , who struggles alongside david wit
fantastic . highly recommended . the art of being normal is the story of a transgender character named david , and his journey to finally telling his family ( and the rest of the world ) that he wishes to be referred to as kate , and would like to begin transitioning . i have to be honest and say that i don ' t believe i ' ve read a book about a transgender character before , certainly not as the main focus of the story . i know they exist , so it ' s either down to my own lack of diverse reading or a distinct l
have you ever finished a book and thought…that it was important ? that the story that’s being told is one that everyone should hear ? that’s how i felt about “the art of being normal” . i feel like everyone needs to read this . it’s an important message about our society today . and it it’s just a damn fine book , too . david has a secret . he hasn’t told his family . he hasn’t come out to the world with it . only his best friends , and his trusty journal know the truth . if he could be anything in the world
3 . 5 stars loved the introductory exploration of trans issues in this book , even if it faltered in other areas . the art of being normal follows two protagonists who both go to eden park school : david piper , a biological male who has always wanted to be a girl , and leo denten , an outsider with dark secrets of his own . though the two seem quite different - david , more reserved and wistful , leo , more moody and confrontational - a twist of fate brings them together in ways neither of them expect . i app
sigh . another disappointment crossed off the tbr . i was so excited to read this , especially after seeing so many rave reviews , but unfortunately this was a story that did not make it on my memorable list . my main issue with the art of being normal is that it ' s a tale of transgender teens told by a cisgender author . now admittedly , i knew that from the beginning but i was optimistic that it may have worked out . i believe in giving authors the benefit of the doubt until i ' ve seen the proof in their
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smart without being smart - alecky , mr . rosen ' s writing avoids the aggressive cleverness and gummy politics of many similarly themed movies , focusing instead on realistic dialogue and low - key interaction .
the buzz around the release of the art of being normal has been crazy ! so many of my trusted friends and fellow reviewers have loved it so the pressure was on when i chose to read it myself . williamson has created a novel i wish had been written years ago . it’s incredibly brave – i don’t think there’s anything too similar to it published at the moment – and it stands out because of its themes and content . however , i’m sad because i wish there were more books just like the art of being normal . i’m going to make it my mission to seek them out ! i hope it leads the way to similar books being published . david has one wish : he wants to be a girl . it’s something that only his two best friends know . as he starts a new school year , leo denton starts in year eleven , a boy shrouded in mystery . he is determined to be invisible . the school year plays out and the two boys find out that things at eden park school don’t stay secret for long . i really loved both protagonists and especially how distinguishable they were . each stood out on their own but also interacted well together , which is what i love in a multiple perspective novel . david was such a loveable character . being the same age , i thought i could relate to him a lot and really sympathise with his situation . i wish he were my friend ! leo’s character development was amazing to read . it was almost as if it was unfolding in real time and i loved seeing him grow and change . authors take note – this was a perfect character arc ! please , please , please read the art of being normal ! i want to scream from the rooftops about it , and i know i’m not the only one !
it’s interesting that andy , jon’s straight guy best friend and roommate doesn’t have much of a reaction to jon telling him he had sex with a guy , even though he is your typical , somewhat homophobic , ex - frat boy . in your generation , has it become more of a non - issue ? are many straight guys who make comments like , “that is so gay , ” when faced with an actual friend saying “i slept with a man” not that taken aback ?
structured like a comedy , but outfitted with only the most tedious sexual - identity riffs , generic characterizations , and no singular point of view , the art of being straight finds a perfectly bland putative hero in jon ( writer - director jesse rosen ) , who does awfully well with women for a guy who has what could be mistaken for “a herpe”—as woody allen used to call it—visible on his lower lip . moving to l . a . from the east coast on a rebound from an ex - girlfriend , jon finds his office - flunky job draws the lascivious attention of his boss paul ( johnny ray rodriguez ) , and despite the lad’s straight - faced denials , a wine - fueled roll in the hay follows . the film’s typically blasé etching of the older man makes it impossible to guess whether he’s meant to be judged as predatory or not , until we are reminded that , after all , he’s an ad executive . meanwhile , jon’s lesbian college chum maddy ( rachel castillo ) dithers over moving in with her girlfriend just long enough to flirt over a bong with the scruffy hipster guy next door ( pete scherer ) .
despite its promising title , jesse rosen’s tiny l . a . - set “ the art of being straight ” isn’t really about contemporary codes of masculinity or the rattling task of “passing” as heterosexual . rather it’s a flimsy pseudo - autobiographical character piece from a first - time filmmaker playing an approximation of himself so dewy - eyed cute and effortlessly naive that many audiences will be hard - pressed to find enormous fault . after all , the “likability” factor goes a long way in negligible indie fare , and certainly in small - budget gay - themed niche moviemaking , at times even held up as an ideal equal to such matters as coherent editing and photography and certainly to performance . tact and charm are attributes , but a rewarding movie experience they don’t necessarily make .
is one of those pieces of literature that tries to do that , and does a good job , but overall the plot , the writing , and the supporting characters are pretty average .
one of the great films made by the generation after the french new wave , andré téchiné’s wild reeds , a four - time césar winner , is a teenage drama electric with currents of sexuality and politics . the 1962 setting is precise ( the franco - algerian war ) , yet the tensions live on into the 90s and today .
the collective genius of the internet has once again worked its magic . a group of reddit users have gone about collecting a series of photographs that are not from a wes anderson film , but might as well be .
your film got an art house theatrical release and is running on here tv . did those deals help you break even ? or is this film just an expensive resume for your next job ?
fantastic . highly recommended . the art of being normal is the story of a transgender character named david , and his journey to finally telling his family ( and the rest of the world ) that he wishes to be referred to as kate , and would like to begin transitioning . i have to be honest and say that i don ' t believe i ' ve read a book about a transgender character before , certainly not as the main focus of the story . i know they exist , so it ' s either down to my own lack of diverse reading or a distinct lack of books covering this topic . . . i suspect it ' s a bit of both . i enjoyed this immensely , it ' s very easy to read and i liked both of the dual povs ( i also appreciated the use of different fonts for both just to keep me on track ! ) it features some serious and important themes , all of which were handled well , including of course sexuality and gender but also bullying , family relationships , poverty and abandonment . . . probably a few more too . but beyond the struggles of david and leo it never felt ' heavy ' , if that ' s the right word . i certainly felt sad and angry , as well as happy and warm , but i enjoyed the whole journey . as others have said , a must read if you enjoy the work of david levithan and maureen johnson .
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gay men must drag the abjectness of their bodies around for so long it’s easy to imagine porn as the ultimate stage for their fresh - off - the - closet desirability . much like the nouveau…
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in the second part of the book the roles are reversed , but the way leo’s character is given depth is by sending him and david on a wacky road trip . it’s fun to read about , and the drunken scene in the pub made me laugh , but the trip lacked emotional impact . williamson certainly tries to give us the feels , but the attempt feels pretty forced .
i don ' t think i ' ve ever been so happy to finish a book . and i don ' t mean that in a bad way , i literally finished the book with the biggest grin on my face , content with the ending and slightly wanting more kate ( david ) and leo . i ' m so glad this book was mainly focused on finding ones true self , as well as true friendship . you know , the type of friendship you ' ll have for life . however , i also have to be open and honest to the slightly problematic aspects of the book too . do i think this represented transgender people in the best way ? absolutely not . the author is a cis female and could never fully understand what it ' s like to be transgender , all the issues people with gender identity issues go through . i also felt like the romantic aspect was seen as a laugh at the expense of kate which made me uncomfortable . the art of being normal is a good place to start out but there are so many more better representing books out there .
you must have heard about the art of being normal by now and , if not , i ' m not sure how you have managed to miss it . published on 1st january , it ' s one of the most talked about ukya novels published this year so far , and has certainly set a high standard . fourteen - year - old david piper has only told two people – his two best friends , essie and fox , who have both been incredibly supportive – that he has wanted , needed , to be a girl ever since he was a small child . david has written a letter to his p
the psychologically flat script isn ' t nearly up to the task of depicting the pleasure within confusion / despair ( or vice versa ) ; neither are rosen ' s acting chops .
one of the film’s neat tricks , and also one of its great calamities , is that rosen and castillo , who obviously have an innate chemistry , share only a small handful of scenes ( rosen’s hesitant sorta - coming - out scene to castillo is undoubtedly the film’s highlight , shot and performed with an ease the rest of the film desperately craves ) . this leaves them each a bit unmoored and interacting with a cast made up of many greatly unskilled performers — all rosen’s scenes with his straight - arrow roommate jared grey fall flat , as do those with rodriguez , whose odd approximation of an alpha boss makes the character an unnecessarily hateful predator . castillo’s magnetism grows ever clearer in light of the other actors — considering that as written maddy registers as little more than a hostile hipster harridan ( she’s often needlessly sarcastic , even to strangers , even when smoking pot and . . . reading sartre ? ! ) , it’s near miraculous that the actress is able to so shine through .
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david longs to be a girl . david is a girl who longs for acceptance . the art of being normal was not what i had expected . i would say that this is a good introduction for someone who wants to know more about life as a transgender kid and adolescent . it is a heartfelt novel , for sure , but not a perfect one . i had difficulties connecting with the characters , especially with david . she is 15 years old if i am not mistaken , but she acts like a 12 - year - old . in most situations , david and her friends seem
i’m transgender myself and i work with transgender youth , so of course i’m bringing that to the table . i didn’t hate this book – in fact , i quite liked large parts of it , but there are a few issues that drag it down . one of them was that i don ' t feel like it was written with transgender people in mind as a part of the key audience , unless they ' re teenagers still trying to figure out even the most basic things . but at the same time , it ' s a bit of a narrow representation of transgender people . the
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that friendship however isn’t strong enough to mask the thin plot of the book . in the first half of the novel the focus is on david and his problems with body dysphoria ( which were realistically described , in my cisgender opinion ) . not much happens to leo , apart from him falling in love with alicia and experiencing some family drama .
i’m not sure it’s a non - issue , certainly depending on place ( i’ve seen some pretty homophobic responses to the trailer on the internet ) , but i think my generation can be very accepting of being gay . just not much in between . you rarely hear anybody ask , “is he / she bi ? ” if you have to ask , i think that’s a better question . the question , “are they gay ? ” is one of the reasons i wanted to make the film . i think it says a lot about how are society views bisexuality .
i’m transgender myself and i work with transgender youth , so of course i’m bringing that to the table . i didn’t hate this book – in fact , i quite liked large parts of it , but there are a few issues that drag it down . one of them was that i don ' t feel like it was written with transgender people in mind as a part of the key audience , unless they ' re teenagers still trying to figure out even the most basic things . but at the same time , it ' s a bit of a narrow representation of transgender people . the full review is at my blog and contains spoilers .
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“literally people i’ve known for my entire life , i was like , this is the premise of the movie . . . and then they’d get out of the movie , and they’re like : ‘i have to talk to you for two reasons . one , our friendship is over . two , i loved the movie . ’”
when i first picked up this book i had really high hopes for it . the idea of a young transgender protagonist was really appealing and ( as fickle as this may be ) i love the cover . it ' s what drew me in . having just finished the book , my overall thoughts are good , but not great . story wise i really enjoyed it . i think the overall story was great . both david and leo are wonderful characters and i loved their inner monologues of their struggle with being transgender ; they were thoughtful and they wer
a sweet ya - story with a couple of amazing diverse characters , although the story itself could have been better .
is the author of this book transgender ? i ' m very hesitant about reading books focusing on lgbt + issues if the author isn ' t lgbt + themselves .
he takes a low - level job at an ad agency , where he becomes the sexual object of attention of his predatory gay boss ( johnny ray rodriguez ) , who , despite being thoroughly obnoxious and repugnant , soon manages to seduce his new hire . also experiencing sexual confusion is jon ' s best friend , maddy ( rachel castillo ) , a lesbian in a committed relationship who finds herself falling for the sweet guy ( peter scherer ) who moves in next door .
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and by the look of things , they’ve done quite a good job over their first couple months in business . we’ve said all we can . just look at the photos .
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no connection but that’s great . i was however , lucky to discover my old college roommate’s songs , matt studivan , aka the musical theatre , who provided most of the soundtrack .
if you’ve ever seen a film by the 48 - year - old anderson , you’ll know that the component parts of one his films are unmistakable , regardless of the project’s theme and characters . there are the eye - popping colors and the strong , well - defined lines . there are the eccentric architectural triumphs and eerie quiet . but most importantly , there are those shots ― the ones that zoom in and out with an almost borderline obsessiveness in their quest for near - perfect , everything - just - so symmetry .
two boys . two secrets . david piper has always been an outsider . his parents think he’s gay . the school bully thinks he’s a freak . only his two best friends know the real truth – david wants to be a girl . on the first day at his new school leo denton has one goal – to be invisible . attracting the attention of the most beautiful girl in year eleven is definitely not part of t
although reasonably insightful in its portrait of confused twentysomethings , the film lacks the depth to be interesting , and its lead character ' s sexual experimentation is not depicted in particularly convincing fashion .
hi ! i ' m cis - gender . i was inspired to write the book following two years working at the gender identity development service . i ' ve had lots of really …more
oh , this is one cute diversity read ! i highly recommend this if you love simon vs . the homo sapiens agenda ! just like in simon , in this book it is about a diversity character , in this case a trans , but without the book being written in a learny way . you get to know david and you learn what it ' s like to be trapped in the wrong body because he is . and i also like leo a lot ! and i like how , at least in the dutch version , the different point of views are indicated with different fonts . i really like
a car mechanic in a small , working class town comes out of the closet to his unsuspecting , blue - collar best friends .
normal
kids don ' t see therapists .
normal
kids don ' t have mothers like mine , who tell you life isn ' t fair with messed - up glee , like the unfairness of life is pretty much the only thing they know for sure . i ' ve spent my whole life being told i ' m the complete opposite of
normal
. i ' m sorry , but i loved this . i don ' t know why i ' m apologizing , since i ' m on this website to either hate or love a book no matter what others thought about it , but i feel like this is another one of those books that
your plot reminds me of a song by peter allen called “bi - coastal . ”
structured like a comedy , but outfitted with only the most tedious sexual - identity riffs , generic characterizations , and no singular point of view .
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the writer - director plays the lead role of jon , a nice young man who has recently moved from new york to los angeles after taking a
break
from his relationship with his girlfriend . moving in with his old college buddy andy ( jared grey ) , he finds himself hanging out with the sort of macho guys who preface every observation with the phrase
that is so gay .
ant - man and the wasp , starring paul rudd and evangeline lilly , took the top spot at . . .
i was also a bit disappointed by the author’s treatment of transgender topics like bullying or transitioning . some bullying does takes place in the book , but it isn’t treated seriously ; while in reality , prejudice against transgender people is pretty severe . the discussion of gender and sex changes neither goes very into depth . the reason why has to do with an important plot reveal , so i’ll tag this for spoilers .
“a lot of white people don’t see it coming , ” williams told huffpost . “and then they try to talk themselves out of it . ‘maybe she’s been hypnotized too . ’”
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williams told huffpost that she’d already been sold on the script by the time rose appeared on - screen for the first time . the opening scene follows lakeith stanfield as a young black man walking alone in a white suburb , a scene williams pointed out is reminiscent of the shocking killing of trayvon martin in 2012 . “after i read that scene , i was like , ‘i don’t really care who rose is , i definitely want to be in this movie , ’” she said .
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after reading reviews by transgender readers , i ' m lowering my rate of this book .
a shy but smitten college boy pursues a ny go - go boy through the pretext of making a documentary film about him , with the guys knowing each other only as
doc
and
go .
not to get repetitive , but the lighthouses in iceland really are perfect . this one is from the westfjords . from accidentalwesanderson
oh , this is one cute diversity read ! i highly recommend this if you love simon vs . the homo sapiens agenda ! just like in simon , in this book it is about a diversity character , in this case a trans , but without the book being written in a learny way . you get to know david and you learn what it ' s like to be trapped in the wrong body because he is . and i also like leo a lot ! and i like how , at least in the dutch version , the different point of views are indicated with different fonts . i really like how this worked out ! a cute , fun read , lovely characters and the book is filled with beautiful touching moments . i highly recommend reading this !
hi ! i ' m cis - gender . i was inspired to write the book following two years working at the gender identity development service . i ' ve had lots of really positive feedback from readers of all gender identities , but particularly from trans teens . hope you give it a try ! ( less )
here ' s an unconventional romantic comedy if there ' s ever been one .
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it ' s been a while since i read this but i feel there ' s two things i should point out that really bothered me about the book . 1 ) leo is a trans guy but him being trans is treated as a plot twist , and is found out when a girl he likes sees his genitalia . not a fan of that . 2 ) kate ( called by her birth name for most of the book ) is referred to by he / him pronouns by leo in his internal monologue after he finds out she ' s a trans girl but only refers to her as ' she ' when she ' s wearing feminine clothin
besides , who wants to be normal anyway ? fancy that on your gravestone . ‘here lies so - and - so . they were entirely normal . ’” a sweet ya - story with a couple of amazing diverse characters , although the story itself could have been better . the strength of this ya - novel is the budding friendship between david and leo . at first sight the boys are each others opposite - leo is reserved and moody and david open and kind – but when david is able to break down some of leo’s walls , they realize how alike
meanwhile , jon must contend with his roommate’s cartoonishly homophobic arsenal of screechy guy - guy friends ( who use words like “donkey douche” almost as frequently as “fag” ) while dealing with his own internal doubts and rages . if rosen is as unimaginative in representing jon’s demons as to at one point stoop to a dingy , out - of - focus vomiting scene — with him dramatically clutching a toilet , natch — there is some respite in his surprising , refreshingly ambiguous non - ending . even if a bit forced ( the conventionality of all that transpired may not naturally lead to such a radical anticlimax ) , the conclusion helps brings some of the film’s themes to the fore , and also shows the difficulty that comes with true self - definition .
two boys . two secrets . david piper has always been an outsider . his parents think he’s gay . the school bully thinks he’s a freak . only his two best friends know the real truth – david wants to be a girl . on the first day at his new school leo denton has one goal – to be invisible . attracting the attention of the most beautiful girl in year eleven is definitely not part of that plan . when leo stands up for david in a fight , an unlikely friendship forms . but things are about to get messy . because at eden park school secrets have a funny habit of not staying secret for long…
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[ in my opinion , the process of going through a sex change and its physical and emotional effects are never fully explored because david and leo stand at opposite sides of that process . david only makes the first steps by dressing up as kate , and although leo has already gone through a large part of his transition , he never talks about his specialist appointments . this really bugged me because the transition process is such an important part of a transsexual person’s life ( whenever they choose to go through it or not ) , so i was sad that williamson never wrote anything about that . ( hide spoiler ) ]
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this book is really important . there are so many people out there today struggling with gender identity and the desperate need to be looked at as
normal
because they do not fit into the specific and constricting constructs of society and it is just heartbreaking . before this book , i did not have that much of an insight into transgender struggles . even if this book is purely fiction , it still did open my eyes to some of the struggles in an honest simple prose imbued with complex depths . i real
i couldn ' t finish this , it deals with an incredibly important issue and relevant topic in today ' s society but the book just felt like a generic ya book . i wanted to read this book for the trans character and to see how well the story would deal with the issue but after 110 pages i couldn ' t even really get to the core issue because the writing , dialogue and story were so painfully cliche . the story screams american cliche high school trash that we see in so many media outlets and the book isn ' t even
i don ' t think i ' ve ever been so happy to finish a book . and i don ' t mean that in a bad way , i literally finished the book with the biggest grin on my face , content with the ending and slightly wanting more kate ( david ) and leo . i ' m so glad this book was mainly focused on finding ones true self , as well as true friendship . you know , the type of friendship you ' ll have for life . however , i also have to be open and honest to the slightly problematic aspects of the book too . do i think this represent
the strength of this ya - novel is the budding friendship between david and leo . at first sight the boys are each others opposite - leo is reserved and moody and david open and kind – but when david is able to break down some of leo’s walls , they realize how alike they are . together the boys help each other face problems that are hard to confront , like david’s trans issues or leo’s missing father , which makes their friendship very touching and beautiful to read about .
this book is really important . there are so many people out there today struggling with gender identity and the desperate need to be looked at as
normal
because they do not fit into the specific and constricting constructs of society and it is just heartbreaking . before this book , i did not have that much of an insight into transgender struggles . even if this book is purely fiction , it still did open my eyes to some of the struggles in an honest simple prose imbued with complex depths . i really do not have much to say except that i urge everyone who has not read it yet to read and be educated in any possible way and learn more even after reading in order to understand the struggles of the people going through this . it may not seem real to some of us , but it is for every transgender person out there who is not accepted . the only thing i did not like about the book was that it is written in the present tense because for some reason that i do not know , i just cannot stand books written in the present tense . i made it through though so yassss bihh . so i have to read this for a class and i ' m pretty curious about the book .
i couldn ' t finish this , it deals with an incredibly important issue and relevant topic in today ' s society but the book just felt like a generic ya book . i wanted to read this book for the trans character and to see how well the story would deal with the issue but after 110 pages i couldn ' t even really get to the core issue because the writing , dialogue and story were so painfully cliche . the story screams american cliche high school trash that we see in so many media outlets and the book isn ' t even set in america , it ' s set in england so why are they acting so american ? ! the story was so painfully boring with the typical high school bullies who felt so unrealistic because they used pathetic insults like
freak - show
. the dialogue was depressingly boring and failed in giving the characters any depth or personality , i think the worst thing i read was when one character uses the word ' amazeballs ' . cringe . no one ever says that , it felt like the author was desperately trying to make the story appeal to a younger audience . i looked up what happens in the story and it ' s incredibly predictable so i ' m glad i stopped reading . it ' s such a shame i couldn ' t carry on reading this book when i was so looking forward to it especially due to the trans characters but then the characters have literal no development , the story is depressingly generic and the dialogue is painful .
rosen is unfortunately bland in the lead role , but co - star castillo reveals a highly engaging presence as the tough - talking but vulnerable maddy .
allison williams , while making the rounds for jordan peele’s psychological thriller “ get out , ” has been as tight - lipped about the film’s twists as one might expect . williams plays rose , the white girlfriend of main character chris ( daniel kaluuya ) who invites him home to meet her family , where events take a dark turn .
i ' m a trans person and when i saw this book i was super excited . it had a cool cover and a premise i was personally interested in . however , once i started reading i was honestly very disappointed . i know that trans people have different experiences and points of view on their gender , but so many things about this book seemed off to me . the book isn ' t written by a trans person , and that was my first clue . in the blurb :
two boys .
and
david wants to be a girl .
being trans isn ' t about wanting to be
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it was important to me for jon to be a regular guy , and maybe the slight envy of those who wouldn’t typically go near a film with gay sex , who then in turn , may then be more willing to stay on the ride jon’s character takes .
the director ' s inexperience shows at times . . . but his writing and acting are fine . indeed , everyone in the cast is quite good .
after studying under cinematographer ed lachman , shevaun mizrahi forged her own unique filmmaking path with its own set of rules .
lisa was born in nottingham in 1980 . she spent most of her childhood drawing , daydreaming and making up stories in her head ( but never getting round to writing them down ) . as a teenager she was bitten by the acting bug and at 19 moved to london to study drama at university . following graduation , lisa adopted the stage name of lisa cassidy and spent several happy and chaotic years occasionally gett
this starts off well enough but quickly devolves into meaningless scattered scenes until it abruptly ends in a sort of non ending .
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