Hey everyone, Rose here. I am always
trying to come up with
new and different video ideas.
So with booktube you have many 
go-to videos
that you can do
that are easily accessible for
booktubers. You have
hauls and unhauls, you have TBRs, tag
videos, monthly wrap-ups,
reading vlogs, and so on. I have a Google
doc that has almost three pages worth of
just video ideas that are new, and what I hope
to be different.
But very few of those ideas are quick
and easy. A lot of them would take me
time just to be able to put together.
For example, I want to reread-where is it?
Is it right there? 
Somewhere over here
the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but you
know that would take time.
So in my quest to come up with 
a quick and easy
video, I had a spark of inspiration. 
Two things inspired me to
make this video. One is my desire to
come up with a quick, easy and different
video to do,
with hopefully the added benefit of
sparking creativity
in others. And two, uh, having recently
watched a movie called The Old Guard on Netflix.
There are just so many things
to praise about that movie, but I need to
stay focused here.
Allow me to extend and explain the
second reasoning. See, watching The Old
Guard it made me think,
"Huh. Wouldn't it be interesting to 
read books
inspired by this movie?" Now in this case
when I say books
inspired by the movie, I don't mean a
literal adaptation of the movie into
book form.
Plus the movie is actually based on a
comic, so that's basically already taken care of.
What I mean is to look for themes, aspects,
elements in the movie that spark my interest.
And then to search out books that meet
that criteria.
And here we come to the entire point of
this video,
and that is how to come up with a themed
video based around a specific movie, a tv
show, a manga, whatever. Since my example comes
from The Old Guard,
let me explain and give some examples of
what I mean by all of this. So one of the
main characters in the movie
is Joe. He is an Arab Muslim man, 
and he is
in a committed and deeply loving
relationship with another man.
Now that right there, there is a lot to
choose from. So I could read a
non-fiction book
on the Islamic religion. I could read
translated Arabic poetry. I could read an
LGBT book with a queer main couple,
with one or both of the couples being
POC, and preferably with the story ending
happily. Moving along to another example.
So another aspect I could explore
is this movie centers around an immortal
found family. Okay, so I--a very obvious
choice would be to read a story
with a found family. The immortals in The
Old Guard, they are warriors. 
So okay, I could read
a story about warriors-warriors
from any number of countries, from any
number of eras. 
A third example, a third aspect of
this movie, is
one of the characters, one of the main
characters, is Nile Freeman
and she is a black woman who is in the
US marines.
Okay, I can go very broad and simply read
a book that has a black woman 
who is the main
character.
I could be a bit more specific and I can
read a book of
essays on the experience of black women
in the US military. Another thing is Nile, 
she is immortal and immortals they can - I
feel like they can take on
many different forms - and one of those
can be a goddess.
Okay, so I could read a story that
centers around a black goddess. 
Do you all--I hope you all
are following
what I'm trying to lay out here. The
possibilities for this kind of
themed reading, I think, it's just endless.
You could read one or ten books inspired by
a movie, a TV show, a piece of literature,
manga, anything. At some point I
do want to do a video that is titled
something like,
"Reading Five Books Inspired By 
The Old Guard."
Continuing on with this example-from
this movie? Of this movie?
Of this movie. I got it. 
I just think that it's amazing of
what kind of inspiration can be sparked
from reading
different stories from any number of
medium. After watching this movie - and
immediately reading a ton of fanfiction
for it because
duh. It is made me just want to have a
better understanding
of things like the Crusades, 
the Islamic religion,
or perhaps just reading translated
Arabic poetry.
Again this, the-the possibilities of what I
could learn and read from all of this
it's-it's endless.
And all of this, it coincides
really nicely with the fact that I want
to read more diversely,
and just more broadly, you know. So okay.
Uh, yeah.
A quick recap, there are just four easy
steps to, you know, 
doing the thing. Step one
is to choose a movie, TV show, manga,
whatever.
Step two is pick out themes, aspects,
elements
that you want to explore. You can be very-
(wind blowing)
I've lost my words. 
You can be very
specific, or very broad with this. 
I got it.
Step three is to choose a book or books.
And then step four,
read the book or books and profit. So
just have fun with this, whether you are
a booktube creator or
you are a commenter/reader... I mean, I
think all of those are readers. 
But you get what I mean. The
possibilities for videos, 
I think in particular, is I
think just endless. 
Man I keep saying that word,
but it's whatever.
If you follow this tip, which I hope that
I explained clearly. Maybe. 
And at the same time
I think if, you know, for all of you
readers out there, if you've just been
recently struggling with
what the heck do I want to read next,
well hopefully this tip will
inspire you to read, you know, a different
genre. And just
genera-generally read outside
of your comfort zone, or just things that
you normally read.
Yeah?
And now, before I sign off, I just
want to give
you know five quick reasons 
why everyone should
watch The Old Guard. And there are many
more than this, but you know...
Keeping this on point. Okay so.. in no
particular order, but
point one it's a solid story. Again it's
based off a comic and this is the movie
adaptation for it. And it is
directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, who is
a black woman. 
Number two, a diverse cast.
Number three, Charlize Theron is 45 and
kicking ass.
And just by the way, 45-years-old is not
old, but you know
in Hollywood they seem to think that
women past
a certain age is old. But that's a whole
other thing, so moving on. Number four,
great representation of a queer main
couple. And number five,
Marwan Kenzari.
Like.
Need I say more?
Okay.
So (claps hands) that is it.
Thank you all so much for
watching. Again, I really hope that this
was understandable, and clear, and inspiring.
Please take care everyone, and I will see
you all in my next video.
Bye.
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♪ I think I can do this. ♪
Getting my energy up.
Getting my energy up.
Yeah!
This is the crap that I cut out.
Every time.
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