Winnie-the-Pooh
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marycatelliWinnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne
The original. Accept no substitutes!
The adventures of a bear and his friends in the woods. With Christopher Robin presiding over all but not often getting into the action until after Pooh gets into a pickle.
Lightsome, episodic tales with a few bits of continuity -- most noticeably, of course, when Kanga and Roo arrive in the first book, and Tigger in the second.
Reading it as an adult makes it easier to pick up the childish mistakes, such as what the North Pole is and whether there is a East Pole, but on the whole, it's still the same tales as when I read it as a child.
The original. Accept no substitutes!
The adventures of a bear and his friends in the woods. With Christopher Robin presiding over all but not often getting into the action until after Pooh gets into a pickle.
Lightsome, episodic tales with a few bits of continuity -- most noticeably, of course, when Kanga and Roo arrive in the first book, and Tigger in the second.
Reading it as an adult makes it easier to pick up the childish mistakes, such as what the North Pole is and whether there is a East Pole, but on the whole, it's still the same tales as when I read it as a child.
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As to that -
Date: 2015-07-13 01:01 pm (UTC)http://splodefromcute.livejournal.com/2235344.html
Re: As to that -
Date: 2015-07-13 03:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-07-13 01:06 pm (UTC)Give credit, before it got overdone and worn out, to another source:
https://youtu.be/Bc_b-qE9gl8
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Date: 2015-07-13 03:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-07-13 04:13 pm (UTC)Yah, and “Disneyfication” is proverbial, but I think they did well back then, some times.
If you don't mind white-on-black text, or can reverse it at will,
http://www.1000misspenthours.com/reviews/reviewsn-z/20000leaguesunderthesea1954.htm
- is a very good review, by a guy who starts by admitting that he dislikes Jules Verne and doesn't much care for Walt Disney films either, but somehow…
… There are any number of respects in which they have… conspicuously
refrained from pandering to a juvenile audience. Most notably, the
characterization of Captain Nemo is very prickly indeed, and James Mason
throws himself into the part with all the well-mannered menace he can
muster— which, as anyone who’s ever seen him play a villain before knows,
is a hell of a lot…
The movie does some interesting things with Conseil, too, which again show
that its makers had more on their minds than charming theaters full of
kids. Simply put, this is not Jules Verne’s Conseil, and neither is it the
departure from the original that seems most natural for a 1950’s fantasy
movie. In the book, Conseil is pretty well useless. He’s fairly young, not
very bright despite a good memory for detail, and generally relegated to
the role of comic relief. It would have been the perfect part for some
cornball comedian, or alternately, the character could have been given a
sex change and turned into a love interest for Ned Land. But instead,
Disney cast Peter Lorre, and transformed Conseil from the professor’s
faithful but inept sidekick into the man whose good sense and practicality
are all that prevent Aronnax from making a total ass of himself at every
turn. The revision makes the three passengers aboard the Nautilus equals in
a way they never approached in the book, and makes sure all of them get a
chance to earn some audience admiration. Placing a greater emphasis on the
story’s anti-war angle helps, too, especially now that the Nautilus is
fairly explicitly nuclear-powered…
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Date: 2015-07-13 04:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-07-13 05:26 pm (UTC)Well, me too - someone elsewhere was wishing that instead of selling it to Disney, who used little more than the title and a few concepts, a real film had been made of Tim Powers' amazing and wonderful book On Stranger Tides - and I replied, “Why? You already have it in your head better than any film version is likely to be.”
Still, one exception to that - speaking of literary classics - would be the 1990 TNT production of Treasure Island, for as Wikipedia says, “This version of the story is noted for its faithfulness to the book, with much of the dialogue coming directly from it, as well as recreating several of the more violent scenes from the book.” It really pulled the rods - starred Charlton Heston, Christian Bale, Oliver Reed (as Billy Bones, who dies of apoplexy and Reed did a scary-good job of depicting that), Christopher Lee, Julian Glover, and Pete Postlethwaite - plus music by The Chieftains! I mean, this thing rocked.
Its accuracy corrected the 1934 Wallace Beery version, which was good in its own right, but W Beery played Long John Silver as amiable, at least towards Jim Hawkins, which he was not. If someone wanted to know the story but didn't want to wade through the book, I'd steer them here.
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Date: 2015-07-13 06:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-07-13 01:10 pm (UTC)“Tigger Meets Hobbes” crossover fanfic. It's probably been written…
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Date: 2015-07-13 03:30 pm (UTC)