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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I won’t bother. I live the book and the original series. I don’t need to watch some modern author’s angst driven propaganda piece
I think I’m going to give this a pass. I enjoy the flights of fancy, the scope for imagination, and the delightful joys of Anne and I don’t want someone with a darker soul to tarnish it for me.
Obviously, Walley-Beckett is not of the race the knew Joseph.
Why cannot society simply allow a story, good and wholesome, to exist as it was. While I am not naive to believe that human darkness did not exist 130 years ago, I often revisit Montgomery’s world to escape the dreadful times we live in.
Here’s an artist from PEI who was never ruined. Click the link and let Stompin’ Tom cheer you up. He’s singing about Sudbury, Ontario here, but many of his songs were about the Maritimes and PEI.
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....
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Not just you. If it was left to them, Anne would be turn out to be Arnie, in a dress.
I won’t be watching.
There is nothing I like better than a good zombie or chainsaw movie. Having said that, why must the “entertainment” industry take something that is sweet and delightful in its own right and p*ss all over it? Surely there is room for light as well as dark?
Write your own story rather than take someone else’s work from a different time and place and painfully jack it around to fit your own twisted modern sensibilities.
At retirement we drove from Phoenix to the Maritimes on an Acadian history tour and added in a Lucy Maud Montgomery tour. It was an epic 9000 miles plus and took four weeks. We went in May and there was still snow on the ground at sea level type elevations in Cape Breton and on the east sea coast of PEI. The snow that March had reached 18’ depth.
Anne was thin. Hadn’t “a pick on her bones.” Must have had an eating disorder. She resisted Gilbert for a long time and told her best friend, Diana, that she would never marry and that she felt jealous at the idea of Diana ever marrying. Clearly, Anne was a lesbian and in love with Diana. Marilla and Matthew, neither of whom ever married, must have been gay, too. I’m sure Avonlea was filled with LGBT-whatevers who had eating disorders, drug abuse, ADHD, and so forth. How could we have missed this for so long?
Anne of Green Peace . . .
>>>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”.<<<
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWqVoaYxgRs
That sounds fantastic. I’ve thought about doing something very similar but have no idea if I will ever have the chance.
One son and his wife and kids were temporarily stationed in Canada. We drove up there and got him and the older kids (5,12 & 14) and took them on out to Quebec City, Q; St John, NB; Peggy’s Cove, NS; Digby, NS, Cape Breton, NS; PEI; back to Northern New Brunswick, southern Quebec and then back to Ottawa, Michigan, Missouri and Arizona.
Be sure to have movie systems and electronic games in your minivan and the kids will entertain themselves. When you take almost four weeks to do it, it isn’t too bad.
That’s a dream trip.
I was thinking of flying to Boston and going from there up through Maine and around to Quebec City and back down.
I’ve been to Montreal a number of times and down to and fro from Vermont.
But I never made it to Quebec City.
I know this is an old article, but I really liked the first season of Anne With an E. I thought it was faithful to the original, and the flashbacks to abuse at the hands of orphanages were occasional and still in the spirit of the book.
Season two is constant homosexual propaganda, and the abuse flashbacks are more frequent and detracting.
Sheesh I just started watching this tonight for a bit and had to stop...hope it’s not too disappointing when i return later! Although the gal playing Anne often appears too far off the wall!
Why is this necessary? Clearly, as a character, there was none stronger than Anne. Why must we now detract from that?
Sad, a charming tale to be ruined by liberal trash.
Anything to put down and distort such down-to-earth locales where traditional values reign works for the elites.
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