#adaptation problems

[bethanydelleman]

Recent Period Drama Starter Kit:

Earth tones, "Mood lighting" (I can't see a thing), torture lace ups, and beach waves

[damnfandomproblems]

Fandom Problem #12,397:

Disney specific:

Let's not pretend all the POC being cast as previously white characters isn't performative and lazy.

You know what would be a great way for a company known for their fairytale adaptations to add representation?

ADAPTING FAIRYTALES FROM THOSE REGIONS!

Adapt Mexican fairytales. Adapt South American fairytales. Adapt Southeast Asian fairytales. Adapt African fairytales. Adapt Middle Eastern fairytales. Adapt Native American tribe Folktales. AND CONSULT THOSE GROUPS WHILE ADAPTING!

[ponfarratthedisco]

Since I'm on a roll, I'm also going to share another thought I had while writing my latest post: it is not lost on me that the reason why Jane Austen has multiple book-accurate adaptations of her work, while Mary Shelley and Emily Brontë don't, is due to the fact that most of her work (while genius) isn't nearly as controversial.

It's way safer to talk about the daily struggles of middle-to-upper class white, English families, than to tackle discrimination or female labour as horror via casting a man in a maternal role.

[the-mad-woman-in-the-attic]

Anyway, kudos (derogatory) to the Netflix adaptation of L'arte della gioia/The Art of Joy for managing to perform both bisexual erasure AND lesbian erasure at the same time, and meanwhile ALSO adding both a sapphic AND a het storyline which were absent in the book.

[bethanydelleman]

The one thing that really throws me off in the new Wuthering Heights trailer is the party scenes that seem to have like, people in them. Wuthering Heights is supposed to be so isolated. There are two families who keep marrying each other and like 8 people, a bunch of whom share names, and by the end half of them are eaten by the moors. The parish can't even keep a curate. Cathy II has met two young men total and both of them are her cousins. Nelly probably keeps working for these insane families because where the f else is she gonna work? Joseph is somehow the best they can do for servants and he is eternal. Zillah shows up near the end and you are shocked that anyone else even exists

Edit: Now that I've watched the movie, well sorry it is actually very isolated, but Catherine appears to be trapped in Willy Wonka's chocolate factory so the vibes are still super off

[bethanydelleman]

Being agreeable never did a woman any good.

Did you read the novel???

Why does this movie want to hurt me?

[bethanydelleman]

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[bethanydelleman]

I came across your post on the Bennets being actually rich. Why is then they are depicted wearing those plain-looking darker dresses? In the 2005 their house looked so shabby and poor. The new adaptation made it no better, it seems.

This question refers to this post

I think the 2005 movie was trying to depict the very real class/wealth difference between the Bennets and Mr. Darcy and to some extent the Bingleys, but they went too far.

Mr. Bennet has 20x the income of a master blacksmith. Mr. Bingley has 40x, Darcy has 100x. So there is a difference! However, this is like, having one personal yacht, three personal yachts, or a whole helicopter. No one here is actually poor, it's gradations of wealth.

Even if Mr. Bennet died and Mrs. Bennet had only her 250/year, she is still at 2.5x the income of that master blacksmith and that's all passive income.

I have to think you can show wealth gradations without making them look poor.