The Friday Five for 23 February 2024

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1. Your favorite book? My recent favourite is "The Heaven Official’s Blessing": so many layers and secret reveal.

 

2. Your favorite movie? Barbie. It's fun, and it's what I imagined Barbie's world would look like as a kid. It also has insightful commentary about sexism. 
 

3. Your least favorite adaptation of a book to a movie? Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It misses the point of the novel. Wonka doesn't need a woeful backstory.

 

4. Your least favorite adaptation ever of anything to a movie? The Dark Knight, mostly because I dislike grim dark superhero movies and their impact in general.

 

5. Your first ever novel/comic book/movie character crush? Kougaiji from Saiyuki. The scene when a brainwashed Kougaiji is ordered to comb Gyokumen Koushu's long hair imprints on kid!me.