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One of my favorite podcasts did its season finale. It was a good one. https://www.narniaweb.com/2022/05/c-s-lewis-created-an-atomic-bomb-talking-beasts/
I seem to be out to smash the shibboleths of the YouTube critic community on my blog. Recently I defended Disney remakes. I began by praising the 2012 movie, Les Misérables. https://theadaptationstation.com/2021/04/an-appreciation-of-tom-hoopers-les-miserables-part-1-a-masterpiece-of-visual-storytelling/ https://theadaptationstation.com/2021/04/an-appreciation-of-tom-hoopers-les-miserables-part-2-the-part-thats-not-actually-appreciative/
https://theadaptationstation.com/2021/04/an-appreciation-of-tom-hoopers-les-miserables-part-3-a-master-adaptation/ #LesMisI seem to be out to smash the shibboleths of the YouTube critic community on my blog. First, I praised the 2012 Les Miserables movie. Now I'm defending "live action" Disney remakes. Check it out. https://theadaptationstation.com/2022/05/a-mild-defense-of-disneys-recent-line-of-nostalgia-bait/ #Disney #nostalgiabait #remakes
Monthly Archives: April 2021
Which Friday Is the Freakiest? Candidates 3 and 4
One Final Attempt to Understand What Goes On in Your Head: Freaky Friday (2003) Only eight years after the 1995 Freaky Friday, Disney released another remake, into cinemas this time, from director Mark Waters and screenwriters Leslie Dixon and Heather … Continue reading
Which Friday is the Freakiest? Candidates 1 and 2
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside his skin and walk around in it.” Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird Many more people know the premise of Freaky … Continue reading
An Appreciation of Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables Part 3: A Master Adaptation
For the last part of this series on the 2012 Les Misérables, I want to finally talk about it as an adaptation, and the way it uses elements of both Boublil and Schonberg’s musical and Victor Hugo’s novel. This is … Continue reading
An Appreciation of Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables Part 2: The Part That’s Not Actually Appreciative
It may seem strange that I’m going to devote a whole blogpost to what I consider the shortcomings of Les Misérables (2012), especially when I claimed to be tired of the negativity I sensed towards it on the internet. But … Continue reading
An Appreciation of Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables Part 1: A Masterpiece of Visual Storytelling
It doesn’t say much for my confidence that I feel compelled to start off my first non-introductory blog post with a disclaimer. But during the past year and a bit into the current one, there have been far too many … Continue reading
Introduction
Greetings, hypothetical reader. This blog is for me to write about adaptations, mainly adaptations of books I care about into movies and miniseries. I also hope to write about some cinematic remakes and adaptations of stage plays. Mostly book adaptations … Continue reading