Posted on 04/28/2017 10:02:21 PM PDT by ifinnegan
A new Netflix series aims to explore the trauma behind the heroine. Is there a risk to rewriting a beloved book?
“Anne With an E” is being overseen, written and co-produced by Moira Walley-Beckett, a “Breaking Bad” writer from Canada who also created “Flesh and Bone,” a 2015 Starz series about the physically and mentally brutal field of ballet. Walley-Beckett won an Emmy for writing “Ozymandias,” the watch-through-your-fingers episode of “Breaking Bad” in which the heroic cop Hank Schrader is slaughtered in the New Mexican desert because of his brother-in-law, the meth lord Walter White. This may seem like a counterintuitive credit for someone updating “Anne of Green Gables,” but it is a signal of the project’s aspirations. Walley-Beckett wants to bring the long-term psychological explorations, story arcs and heady themes of virtuosic TV, as well as its production values, to bear on the lighthearted, primarily episodic novel.
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Anyone see it? I'm interested in thoughts.
Well, it seems that post modernism is sick of textured stories which hilight virtue and beauty and would instead like us all to focus on the lowest depravities and abuses for their entertainment value.
My special needs son is reading the book now. I’d hate to see a Breaking Bad style “darker” Anne. Sorry. Not going to watch.
sounds like crap
I really detest when writers/filmmakers take over an existing work to put their own bizarre spins into it. It is a parasitical way to proceed. Let them write/film an ORIGINAL work, don’t trash someone else’s art.
Agreed. But I’d go a shade slimier. I hate it when hollywood targets “beloved classics” in order to pollute and erase them from the culture and instead, replace it with trash they want propagated. But that’s just me....
My wife has read these books and we have driven to the actual site of Anne of Green Gables. We have met the surviving relatives in their 80s. She will be outraged. I think I will skip telling her just as I imagine she hasn’t spent much time with Pride, Prejudice & Zombies.
Artists ruin almost all art. It is the infantile traits I guess.
This is akin to going into an art gallery with a can of spray paint and defacing the paintings. No normal person would call this “art”.
I watched about 15 minutes. Anne is ugly and nasty, insists she can do a man’s work, ignoring that back then it meant physical strength. Maybe it will improve... let me know.
I’m not watching it. That’s one reason I wanted to ask people what they thought if they’d seen it or simply what they think of the article and the supposed update to it.
“I really detest when writers/filmmakers take over an existing work to put their own bizarre spins into it. It is a parasitical way to proceed. Let them write/film an ORIGINAL work, don’t trash someone else’s art.”
I kind of agree. (There could be exceptions)
Especially for something so well known and classic.
It has apparently gone in to the public domain now, so anyone can now do what they want with it.
“Agreed. But I’d go a shade slimier. I hate it when hollywood targets “beloved classics” in order to pollute and erase them from the culture and instead, replace it with trash they want propagated.”
I think that is a lot of it.
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I find myself completely distrustful of people that mistakenly use the term ‘gender’ in reference to a real person.
Gender can only refer to a word; a noun or pronoun. Nuts, bolts, pipe fittings and extension cord plugs.
Sex is the word they fear.
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>> “I think that is a lot of it.” <<
Its all of it. DD up, DD down.
I’d like to visit there someday.
I don’t think the Zombie thing is quite the same because it’s clearly a non-serious spoof or farce.
But this one is supposed to be serious - same work, but new and improved.
Yes. Who wants Meth Anne?
they need to destroy every good thing left....soon, we’ll get an expose on Heidi and her perverted grandfather.
I’ve seen the first four episodes and am enjoying it. I don’t think it’s anywhere near as dark as this article implies, but it does have its moments. Far more happy ones I feel.
Even the NY TImes title gives away their purpose. They say “The Other Side of Anne of Green Gables” when in fact it’s a unrelated story by design. “Replacing the character and values of Anne of Green Gables with a miasma of modern slime we prefer you read about” would be far more accurate.
All these new rewritings of classic stories are meant only to rip, tear, destroy, guilt, and divide us all. There is nothing new under the sun, only the expansion of degeneracy.
But in an invention of the show, she is also overcome by memories of being beaten by her former employer<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Political correctness aims to destroy purity.
Dirty Ba$tids themselves.
To take it even dirtier the directors and Walley-Beckett could have given Anne a slave girl companion who was raped by Gilbert Blythe.
Revisionist lefty dirt is not literature or art.Its not even imitation. It comes from a dark place.
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