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An Adaptation Station Mother’s Day
In honor of Mother’s Day this year, I’m doing a post looking back on some of my favorite mom characters from adaptations this blog has covered. It shouldn’t be a surprise that parents pop up in so many stories, even … Continue reading
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Animation Station: What Makes Lady and the Tramp Special
Didn’t I just say I regretted that most posts in my Animation Station feature were about Disney stuff when there are so many other animation studios out there? Yes, I did. Yet here I am doing one about Lady and … Continue reading
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Animation Station: Rise of the Guardians Is Saved by Its Ending.
I feel a bit guilty that so many of my Animation Station blog posts have been about Disney and so few have been about Dreamworks, especially since I’m planning on doing another one about a Disney movie soon as well … Continue reading
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The Second Adaptees Awards Ceremony
Remember when I did that anniversary post that was like an awards ceremony for characterizations in all the movies/miniseries/plays the blog had covered thus far? Wasn’t that fun? Well, I thought it was fun, and since I probably won’t do … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th century novels, Charles Dickens, Cinderella, Cyrano de Bergerac, David Copperfield, fairy tales, Great Expectations, Into the Woods, musicals, Peanuts, Phineas and Ferb, Prince Caspian, remakes, Return to Oz, Robin Hood, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
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Protected: My Thoughts on the Controversy Around Netflix’s Upcoming Narnia Movie
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Sense and Adaptability
Was I overly harsh when I called screenwriter Andrew Davies’s 2008 miniseries adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility “so-so?” I admit it. I gave into the allure of alliteration, and I was trying to contrast it with his 1995 … Continue reading
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This Special Is a Mixed Bag, Charlie Brown
The 2011 animated special Happiness Is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown came at a strange crossroads in the history of the Peanuts franchise. It was made neither by Mendelson/Melendez productions nor by Apple TV but by Warner Bros television. Despite … Continue reading
Ranting About Cyrano (2021)
Cyrano (2021) is a movie adaptation of a 2018 stage musical which was itself based on Edmond Rostand’s 1897 tragic comedy-or comic tragedy-Cyrano de Bergerac. I’d better state upfront that this is going to be one of those blog posts … Continue reading
A Cinderella Musical That’s Not Rodgers and Hammerstein
The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella is a 1976 cinematic musical retelling of the famous story of the siege of Orleans. Just kidding. It’s a retelling of Cinderella. There’s plenty to love about this film, starting (literally) … Continue reading
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Is Return to Oz Really the Better Oz Adaptation?
Whenever anyone does a parody or an homage to The Wizard of Oz, you can bet they’re really doing one to the 1939 MGM movie, not the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum.[1]From what I … Continue reading
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