Tag Archives: Charles Dickens

The Greatest David Copperfield but Not the Greatest David Copperfield

Posted on June 9, 2023 by stationmaster

When I was writing my post about two movie adaptations of Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield, my original plan was to do a quick summary of my thoughts on my favorite adaptation, the BBC’s 1999 two-part miniseries. Maybe something along the … Continue reading →

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David Copperfield vs. David Copperfield

Posted on May 26, 2023 by stationmaster

David Copperfield, Charles Dickens’s beloved novel about friendship, marriage, parenthood and life in general, doesn’t necessarily lend itself that well to a movie. Not only is it long, like all of Dickens’s major novels, but it’s structured like an autobiography … Continue reading →

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Digging Up Dickens With Wishbone

Posted on May 6, 2023 by stationmaster

I don’t think I could do a more entertaining job of explaining the premise of the old PBS Kids show, Wishbone, than this imagined version of the pitch meeting for it. VISIONARY: So there’s this dog.PBS SUITS: We’re listening.VISIONARY: And … 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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A Christmas Carol (2009) Stave IV: The Insanity Peaks Before It Ends

Posted on December 23, 2022 by stationmaster

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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A Christmas Carol (2009) Stave III: Visual Creativity and Missed Opportunities

Posted on December 16, 2022 by stationmaster

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

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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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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