Tag Archives: 18th century novels

The Real Problem with Emma (2020)

Posted on September 9, 2023 by stationmaster

Back in 2022, I did a blog post about the three movie adaptations of Emma by Jane Austen. I had a middling reaction to the one from 2020. I admired what a good job Eleanor Catton’s screenplay did of compressing … Continue reading →

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The Adaptation Station’s Two-Year Anniversary Top Ten List (in Alphabetical Order)

Posted on April 25, 2023 by stationmaster

Technically, it’s no longer this blog’s two-year anniversary, but I still felt like doing this list of the top ten movies/shows/plays about which I’ve blogged. Here are some disclaimers. If you’ve been following my blog and remember the other “list” … Continue reading →

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The First Ever Adaptees Award Ceremony

Posted on April 16, 2023 by stationmaster

Today is the two-year anniversary of The Adaptation Station.com! I wanted to do something special to commemorate it. My first idea was a post about my top ten adaptations about which I’ve blogged. My second was a post that was … 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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Top 5 Screenplays Covered by the Adaptation Station and some Honorable Mentions

Posted on April 16, 2022 by stationmaster

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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Love and Friendship-or Not

Posted on February 18, 2022 by stationmaster

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 →

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Emma Movies That Aren’t Clueless

Posted on January 29, 2022 by stationmaster

As I’ve mentioned on this blog before, not one but two movie adaptations of Jane Austen’s Emma came out in 1996. This makes them rather a pain to talk about since while both follow the book’s plot fairly closely, they … Continue reading →

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Why Clueless Is Clueless About Jane Austen’s Emma

Posted on January 8, 2022 by stationmaster

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 →

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