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Tag Archives: musicals
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
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Charlie, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factories
One of the most inflammatory questions you can ask is which of the two movie adaptations of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl is superior. OK, not really, but it’s still pretty controversial. Both Willy Wonka and the … Continue reading
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Tagged Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, musicals
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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, Emma, Jane Austen, Les Misérables, Little Women, Love and Friendship, musicals, screenplays, William Shakespeare
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Animation Station: Hand-Drawn Dreamworks Part 1
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you may have guessed that I’m interested in the art of animation. This month rather than blogging about adaptations, I’m going to be blogging about a series of animated movies, some … Continue reading
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Tagged Animation Station, Hand-Drawn Dreamworks, musicals
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Aladdin (2019): My Second Favorite Disney Nostalgia Bait Movie
OK, I’ll cut to the chase. I find Will Smith’s Genie funnier than Robin Williams’s Genie. Note I said funnier, not more fun if I can make that distinction. Robin Williams’s Genie is probably more fun, but the only funny … Continue reading
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Tagged Defending Disney Nostalgia Bait, fairy tales, musicals, remakes
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Mary Poppins Returns: My Third Favorite Disney Nostalgia Bait Movie
I have a bit of a strange attitude towards sequel gaps. When a sequel is made to a popular movie that came out, say, ten or fifteen years ago, I’m skeptical that it can recapture its predecessor’s magic. But when … Continue reading
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Tagged Defending Disney Nostalgia Bait, Mary Poppins, musicals
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A Mild Defense of Disney’s Recent Line of Nostalgia Bait
It’s no secret that the Walt Disney company has been relying on remakes of their more popular older movies a lot lately. 2019 saw not one, not two, but four of them! (Aladdin, The Lion King, Dumbo and Lady and … Continue reading
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Peter Pan: The Animated Movie
It sounds crazy to say this now, so many decades since Disney’s 1953 animated movie of Peter Pan, especially when the character of TinkerBell has become such a Disney icon, but J. M. Barrie’s book and play don’t lend themselves … Continue reading
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Tagged musicals, Peter Pan
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Peter Pan: The Musicals
My original plan was to only write about the theatrical movie versions of J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan since, frankly, I like most of them better. But there have been so many filmed versions of Carolyn Leigh and Mark Charlap’s … Continue reading
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Tagged musicals, Peter Pan, remakes
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Which Friday Is the Freakiest? Candidates 3 and 4
One Final Attempt to Understand What Goes On in Your Head: Freaky Friday (2003) Only eight years after the 1995 Freaky Friday, Disney released another remake, into cinemas this time, from director Mark Waters and screenwriters Leslie Dixon and Heather … Continue reading
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Tagged Freaky Friday, musicals, remakes
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