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This blog probably isn’t really going away forever. I’ll probably revive it in some form or do some new posts in the future. But I won’t be doing regular posts. This really does feel like the end of an era … Continue reading
The Best Version of War Horse
I’d like to dedicate this post to my late landlord who recommended the movie to my family. My first “real” blog post[1]I also did an introductory post for this blog that has mysteriously disappeared. Sometimes the ways of WordPress are … Continue reading
Oliver Twist Without Coincidences?
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens is a book I love but I typically don’t love adaptations of it. The shorter ones, such as the musical Oliver! or the 2005 movie, cut the mysterious Monks, one of my favorite villains in … Continue reading
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A Moral in Wonderland
“You’re thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can’t tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in a bit.”“Perhaps it hasn’t one,” Alice ventured to remark.“Tut, … Continue reading
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Animation Station: Should I Have Blogged About The Reluctant Dragon?
This is one of those ideas that I described as Blog Posts That Were Not to Be, one I’ve now decided should be, so a faithful reader of The Adaptation Station.com already knows the gist of it. I even practically … Continue reading
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A Tale of Two Kate DiCamillo Adaptations
“Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark.”-Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux I really don’t envy any Hollywood screenwriter faced with the task of adapting one of Kate DiCamillo’s books. That’s not to say her books … Continue reading
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How Good of an Adaptation is The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh?
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) is actually a compilation of three previously released animated featurettes (e.g. twenty-five-minute length cartoons that would originally appear before full length movies in theaters) with some (entertaining) bridging material and an epilogue … Continue reading
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How Bad of an Adaptation is The Black Cauldron?
The Chronicles of Prydain are a series of children’s fantasy adventure novels from the 1960s by Lloyd Alexander. They are beloved largely because of their characterizations. The Black Cauldron (1985) is an animated movie adaptation of the first two books … Continue reading
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Adaptation Station Blog Posts That Were Not to Be
Waste not, want not, I suppose. Scott Cramer, a YouTuber whom I like[1]Partially because we’re both North Dakotans., once did a video about ideas he had for YouTube videos which he ultimately never made for various reasons. This allowed him … Continue reading
Speaking of Snow White Movies…
I first saw Hallmark Entertainment’s Snow White: The Fairest of Them All (2001) before I was ten years old. It would be a long time before I got to watch it again, so it loomed large in my childhood imagination. … Continue reading
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