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A Christmas Carol (2009) Stave II: Well-Done Moments and Random Weirdness

Posted on December 9, 2022 by stationmaster

Scrooge awakens to the sound of the clock chiming one-the very time his first ghostly visitor is supposed to arrive. In the book, he actually awakens at twelve and is shocked since it was two when he went to bed … Continue reading →

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A Christmas Carol (2009) Stave I: A Fairly Promising Start

Posted on December 2, 2022 by stationmaster

This Christmas, I’ll be doing something different on The Adaptation Station. I’ll be going through one particular adaptation, analyzing it scene by scene. I’m not doing it because I love Charles Dickens’s 1843 novella, A Christmas Carol in Prose Being … Continue reading →

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When Ebenezer Scrooge Met Frosty the Snowman

Posted on November 18, 2022 by stationmaster

Note: I’ve been having unexpected trouble with this blog lately. For some reason, half the images in this post and in some other posts aren’t showing up, at least not on Microsoft Edge. They do seem to be visible on … Continue reading →

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Charlie, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factories

Posted on October 21, 2022 by stationmaster

One of the most inflammatory questions you can ask is which of the two movie adaptations of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl is superior. OK, not really, but it’s still pretty controversial. Both Willy Wonka and the … Continue reading →

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These Specials Are Underrated, Charlie Brown

Posted on September 3, 2022 by stationmaster

Peanuts is awesome. Not only does it have a unique and extremely funny sense of humor, but its characters and images are like mythic archetypes that sum up aspects of the human experience. Do Sisyphus and his boulder represent the … Continue reading →

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Another List of Great Screenplays

Posted on August 5, 2022 by stationmaster

If you’ve been following this blog, you may remember I recently did a post about the scripts for the 2018 BBC miniseries of Les Misérables, which are available to read online. Sometime before then, I did a post about which … Continue reading →

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Animation Station: Hand-Drawn Dreamworks Part 4

Posted on July 22, 2022 by stationmaster

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003) I’ve made the claim that Dreamworks’s four hand-drawn animated films didn’t have a formula and I’ll stand by that, but it can be argued that they came in pairs. The Prince of Egypt … Continue reading →

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Animation Station: Hand-Drawn Dreamworks Part 3

Posted on July 15, 2022 by stationmaster

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002) Dreamworks’s third hand-drawn animated movie, which tells the story of a wild mustang in the yet to be tamed American West, presents me with one of the hardest challenges for a reviewer: something that … Continue reading →

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Animation Station: Hand-Drawn Dreamworks Part 2

Posted on July 8, 2022 by stationmaster

The Road to El Dorado (2000) Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio, the screenwriters for Dreamworks’s second hand-drawn animated film, have had their hands in kicking off some highly successful movie franchises, such as Aladdin, Shrek and Pirates of the Caribbean. … Continue reading →

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Animation Station: Hand-Drawn Dreamworks Part 1

Posted on July 1, 2022 by stationmaster

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you may have guessed that I’m interested in the art of animation. This month rather than blogging about adaptations, I’m going to be blogging about a series of animated movies, some … Continue reading →

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