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Tag Archives: Cinderella
Other Great Episodes of Faerie Tale Theatre
Last week, I wrote about the second season of Shelley Duvall’s Faerie Tale Theatre when the episodes were most consistently great in my estimation. But that doesn’t mean I don’t consider any episodes from other seasons to be great. In … Continue reading
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Tagged Aladdin, Cinderella, Faerie Tale Theatre, fairy tales, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Forth to Learn What Fear Was
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How Into the Woods (2014) is Messy but Worthwhile and Why That’s Weirdly Appropriate
Many eyebrows were raised when it was first announced that Disney would be doing a movie adaptation of the 1987 stage musical Into the Woods. Dark, cynical, adult deconstructions of fairy tales are kind of the opposite of what we … Continue reading
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Tagged Cinderella, fairy tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood, musicals, Rapunzel
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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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Cinderella (2015): My Favorite Disney Nostalgia Bait Movie
This isn’t exactly the most controversial choice for the best of Disney’s recent (and seemingly unending) line of remakes and updates of old material. I believe it was one of the better received ones. But it’s not a totally safe … Continue reading
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Tagged Cinderella, Defending Disney Nostalgia Bait, fairy tales, remakes
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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