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The Adaptation Station’s Two-Year Anniversary Top Ten List (in Alphabetical Order)
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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Tagged 18th century novels, 19th century novels, As You Like It, Cinderella, Defending Disney Nostalgia Bait, Disney Anim-Anthology Movies, Emma, fairy tales, Fantasia, Hand-Drawn Dreamworks, Jane Austen, Les Misérables, Little Dorrit, Nicholas Nickleby, Peanuts, The Storyteller, William Shakespeare
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The First Ever Adaptees Award Ceremony
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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Tagged 18th century novels, 19th century novels, Aladdin, As You Like It, Bleak House, Charles Dickens, Cinderella, Emma, fairy tales, Freaky Friday, Hand-Drawn Dreamworks, Jane Austen, Les Misérables, Little Dorrit, Little Women, Love and Friendship, Mary Poppins, musicals, Nicholas Nickleby, Peter Pan, remakes, William Shakespeare
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A Christmas Carol (2009) Stave IV: The Insanity Peaks Before It Ends
The silent Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come (Jim Carrey) is actually portrayed as Scrooge’s shadow-or rather Scrooge’s shadow transforms into it. At first, I found this somewhat anticlimactic. (Does Scrooge really fear this specter more than any he’s seen … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th century novels, A Christmas Carol (2009), A Christmas Carol in Prose, Charles Dickens
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A Christmas Carol (2009) Stave III: Visual Creativity and Missed Opportunities
As the clock strikes one again, Scrooge sees light coming from the adjoining room and hears the sound of booming laughter. He opens the door to the find that his house has been redecorated and that the Ghost of Christmas … Continue reading
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A Christmas Carol (2009) Stave II: Well-Done Moments and Random Weirdness
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
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
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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Tagged 19th century novels, A Christmas Carol in Prose, Charles Dickens, musicals, The Cricket on the Hearth
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Another List of Great Screenplays
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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Tagged 18th century novels, 19th century novels, Charles Dickens, Coriolanus, David Copperfield, Emma, Great Expectations, Jane Austen, Les Misérables, Little Women, Love and Friendship, musicals, screenplays, William Shakespeare
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The Highs and Lows of Andrew Davies’s Les Misérables
One of the things for which I’m most grateful to the BBC Writers’ Room.com is their release of the shooting scripts for all six episodes of Andrew Davies’s 2018 miniseries adaptation of Les Misérables. Each script contains a host of … Continue reading
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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