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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The original series was the best adaptation of a book ever. It is literally impossible to improve. The casting, locations and acting perfectly matched the stories. It exemplifies wholesome and innocent entertainment.
It sickens me to think what “improvements” they’ll add: feminism rather than strong women of character; explicit sexuality or lesbianism; envy; token racial and gender misrepresentation? It will end up like modern San Francisco: filled with perversion and excrement.
In the book, Anne is pretty off the wall, and I think the series does a great job capturing her personality. I think we are through episode 6 now, and the homosexual propaganda has not let up.
The story lines are still interesting, but the propaganda is obvious enough for our kids to see it (ages 16 and 13.) Rather than just turn it off, we have used the opportunity to discuss some of the issues with them
The abuse flashbacks have toned down.
Well I watched the other episodes....not interested in this rendition of Anne nor the character playing her any further...reasons are obvious.
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