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The Disneyfication of Long John Silver
Are we, as a culture, forgetting that John Silver from Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island is the bad guy? Spoilers ahoy! To explain what I mean, I’m going to have the reveal crucial plot points from the original book, Disney’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Treasure Island
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The Best of Shelley Duvall’s Tall Tales & Legends
This is a post I wish I’d thought of doing before for the United States of America’s two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. Actually, I had thought of doing it before. After all, I’ve done three blog posts about Shelley Duvall’s … Continue reading
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Robin McKinley’s Fairy Tales (Well, Six Fairy Tales and One Legend)
I’m going to do something new for me on this blog. Instead of blogging about a movie or a play or a miniseries that’s based on a book or a play or another movie, I’m blogging about books that are … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty and the Beast, fairy tales, Robin Hood, Sleeping Beauty
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The Year Hollywood Made Two Snow White Movies
That year was 2012 and the two reimaginings of the Snow White fairy tale were Mirror, Mirror from Relativity Media and Snow White and the Hunstman from Universal Studios. [1]Actually, it wasn’t just Hollywood. There was also the Spanish-French coproduction … Continue reading
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A Look Back at Some of my Old Blog Posts
I thought it might be fun to write about some of my old blog posts and what I’d do differently if I were writing them now. Well, I thought it might be for me. I don’t know about you guys. … Continue reading
You Can’t Take It with You: Another Great Adaptation of a Stage Play
I really should have sold this domain months ago. I’m not exactly rolling in money and it’s silly to pay for a blog month after month if you’re not going to do any new posts. But I loved making this … Continue reading
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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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