| I can't possibly tell you how happy this makes me. (It's a hilarious and surprisingly true-to-the-book faux-trailer for Looking for Alaska made by some kids for an English project.) I particularly like the casting choice for the character Alaska. Also they used real fireworks! Honestly, the Printz Award was only slightly more exciting than stumbling across this on google video. I hereby challenge all of America (and you, Australia! I know how many Australians are visiting this blog!) to make more youtube/google videos about Alaska and Katherines. | |
A daily blog by author John Green, winner of the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award for his debut work of fiction, "Looking for Alaska." John's second novel, "An Abundance of Katherines," is now available at Amazon.com.
that effin rocked
ReplyDeleteWow, John, that video is great! And there's a soundtrack and eveything!!! Love it!
ReplyDeleteThat was brilliant. Those kids truly rock (and the parents in the birthday scene, too, especially Dad with the backwards horn).
ReplyDeleteThat was the raddest thing ever.
ReplyDeleteAnd I NEVER use the word rad.
Hahahaha, that is great! I'm sure when (if?) it's made into a full-length movie they won't find anyone talented enough to play both Takumi AND Alaska. I love it!
ReplyDeleteAlso made me wonder if you ever got a chance to see Tony Hawk in our hotel in Missoula...
Cayce saw Bam Margera after I left, which was kind of a bummer for me because my little sister Jackie LOVES Bam Margera. Oh well, we'll get 'em next time!
john, do you just google yourself/your books every few minutes?
ReplyDeleteit's endearing. because i would totally do the same thing.
AMAZING. Those guys should totally get something for that. That was HILARIOUS. I particularly liked the kid who played Takumi. What a rapper.
ReplyDeleteThat makes me all excited, and I didn't even write the book! But if I wrote a novel and someone made a faux trailer for it, I'd definitely be psyched.
ReplyDeleteI think I'll write a book today.
..Is that a logical approach?
That ending was the gayest thing ever. Also the greatest thing ever.
ReplyDeleteWhile I pictured Alaska looking slightly less masculine, The Colonel and Pudge looked EXACTLY how I imagined them. The Hollywood version will never use real-looking teens, I'm sure. . .
ReplyDeleteI hope these guys got an A+ on their project. It was pretty awesome.
yeah, and we (we being school librarians) could actually encourage fun stuff like this if it all weren't blocked in schools - google video and youtube. filters are lame as lame can be.
ReplyDeletethe video rocks. it just makes me sad and bitter and jealous.
i think you should challenge all of Canada to make a video too, because i am so tired of being left out of the cool challenges just because i'm canadian. Also, the best part of that video was probably when he said 'looking for alaska' at the end-that sounded wickedd
ReplyDeleteJohn, I meet you in Kimberly P.'s YA class...told you it would make a GREAT movie!
ReplyDeleteThat was by far the most brilliant thing I've seen all day!
ReplyDeleteI'm going to marry ALL of them.
ReplyDeleteAnd you.
WOAH.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite book acted out AND my favorite band playing in the background.
Am I asleep?
haha, that was great. :)
ReplyDeleteAlaska's pretty hot in this video, though I pictured her maybe a bit more feminine...
ReplyDeleteKudos to the guys who made that, I absolutely loved it!
John Green, keep up the good work and DFTBA! (Chyeah! Nerdfighters!)
haha.. I think you should include Asia too..
ReplyDeleteI'm asian, and, well.. I read your book and absolutely loved it! I hope I'll get my copy of "an abundance of katherines".. and also, I heard you wrote another new book titled "Paper Towns".. I'll try looking for it..
BTW, the video RawKeD!
~aiLa~
I am actually in the process of making a book trailer for Looking For Alaska as an assignment for my Honors English 9 Class.
ReplyDeleteWe were assigned to create a video for a book or our choice, and three of my friends and I automatically chose Looking For Alaska!
I think that was just a little bit better than the book!
ReplyDeleteSorry, I just couldn't like Alaska!
those guys are the bomb
ReplyDeletep.s. I know them (o yea)
see more of their videos under the name of TEMP productions :)
ReplyDeleteAlaska sure is hot stuff.
ReplyDeletethat was definitely the coolest thing ive seen all day. i pictured the Colonel as bald though.
ReplyDeleteps. the ending with the frozen jumping shot is my favorite thing in the world. i loooove when people do that :D
i like the fact that colonel dude kept looking at the camera
ReplyDeleteRelient K forward motion as a soundtrack song, made the video 342% more awesome than if I didn't recognize the band the second it started. Great video, thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeletelol! that totally made my day!!! thank you for posting that.... :)
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