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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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Return to Neverland Is Better Before It Actually Returns to Neverland
That Mother’s Day post got me in the mood to blog about Peter Pan adaptations, ones I haven’t really covered here in detail before. Technically, the movie I’ll be discussing in this post is a sequel to Peter Pan (1953), … Continue reading
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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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Tagged 19th century novels, Freaky Friday, Little Women, Peter Pan, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
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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