Beloved Books on the Big Screen
So Nancy Drew hit the big screen last night. Could this book be loyal to the spirit of those Carolyn Keene stories without slavishly recreating them? I hope so.
Two of the bigger travesties in beloved book to movie making?
Casting fragile and delicate Winona Ryder as Jo March in Little Women (1994)
The slavish and boring page by page re-creation of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
Books to movies that are pretty decent:
Both of the bizarre and kookie versions of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
The recent Lion, Witch, Wardrobe.
Fantastic?
Anne of Green Gables
Opinions?
posted by Marcia @ 5:02 AM
2 Comments:
Winona Ryder is anything but delicate in Little Women or otherwise and she is perfect as Jo. That movie is a perfect example of a movie adaptation that is a good movie and doesn't disappoint book readers.
The recent Lion, Witch and Wardrobe was fine with the exception of the wussifying of Peter.
As for the bizarre and kookie versions of Charlie and the Chocolate factory, what do you expect? Rohl Dahl is a bizarre and kookie man, a bizarre and kookie writer, sure some things were off putting, but as whole those movies fit with the spirit of the books. The new Nancy Drew does not
I was so disappointed with Winona -- she did not capture the essence of who Jo was, in my mind.
Yeah, Peter ugh.
Oh YES, I agree on the bizarre and kookie versions of Charlie -- on the whole, pretty decent. Have you seen Matilda?
So sad that the new Nancy Drew does not get us the spirit of the book - your "Screwing Up Nancy Drew" does really capture the essence of the Nancy we identified with.
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