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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/ #LesMis
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Mary Poppins Returns: My Third Favorite Disney Nostalgia Bait Movie
I have a bit of a strange attitude towards sequel gaps. When a sequel is made to a popular movie that came out, say, ten or fifteen years ago, I’m skeptical that it can recapture its predecessor’s magic. But when … Continue reading
Top 5 Screenplays Covered by the Adaptation Station and some Honorable Mentions
I’d like to celebrate the first anniversary of my blog by writing about something that interests me, scriptwriting. I’d better make some things clear about the following list. These are the top 5 scripts from movies about which I’ve blogged, … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th century novels, Charles Dickens, Emma, Freaky Friday, Les Misérables, Little Women, Peter Pan
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Love and Friendship-or Not
When I first heard a Jane Austen movie called Love and Friendship was being made, I was thrilled. Love and Friendship is the title of a short novel Austen wrote as a teenager,[1]Actually, she titled it Love and Freindship, but … Continue reading
Why Clueless Is Clueless About Jane Austen’s Emma
A while back I watched a YouTube video called Is It OK to Like Pride and Prejudice 2005? in which the YouTuber earnestly lamented the snobbery of some Jane Austen fans who disparage other fans for liking certain adaptations. It … Continue reading
Mending Maleficent Part 2
6. Give Stefan a Reason for Entrusting his Daughter to the Pixies After the fateful christening, Stefan gives Aurora to Knotgrass, Flittel and Thistlewit to guard from spindles and spinning wheels until the sun has set on her sixteenth birthday … Continue reading
Mending Maleficent Part 1
Fauna: Well, perhaps if we reasoned with her-Flora: Reason?Merryweather: With Maleficent?Fauna: Well, she can’t be all bad.Flora: Oh, yes, she can! I have a love-hate relationship with the 2014 movie, Maleficent. Well, more like a like-dislike relationship, but it’s a … Continue reading
The Storyteller and his Sources
The tale is not beautiful if nothing is added to it.-Italo Calvino, folklorist Jim Henson’s The Storyteller only ran for nine episodes, which doesn’t really surprise me since its a very niche show. (I like to think it would have … Continue reading
The Best and Worst Introduction to The Wind in the Willows
The 1995 made-for-television animated movie of The Wind in the Willows was my introduction to Kenneth Grahame’s book as a kid. Looking back, I can see that in many ways it was a better introduction to it than the average … Continue reading
Davies Does Dickens: Little Dorrit
Both Charles Dickens’ novel, Little Dorrit, and Andrew Davies’ 2008 miniseries adaptation of it tell the story of Arthur Clennam (Matthew Macfadyen), who returns to England after two decades of exile, working on the family business in China. He tells … Continue reading
Davies Does Dickens: Bleak House
Apart from his work on House of Cards, screenwriter Andrew Davies is most famous for all the classic literature he has adapted, mainly for television. Whenever his name is mentioned in press releases for a new BBC miniseries based on … Continue reading
