Discuss The Secret Garden
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Too much
posted by Strange BedfellowsSTAFFMOD on November 16, 2020 at 12:07 PM
This took a simple heartfelt tale and turned it into a tawdry overblown fantasy. Too many literary works are being "re-imagined" to their detriment - it seems everybody wants to take an established work and rip it to shreds so as they can insert modern attitudes and language. I suggest writers plumb their own imaginations and create stories of their own that don't bastardise the work of other successful authors.
Reply by bratface
on November 16, 2020 at 7:04 PM
I haven't seen this version & have no immediate plans to see it in the future. As for my favorite version, I prefer the one from 1993.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11236-the-secret-garden
Here's a little bit of trivia, Colin Firth played the adult Colin Craven in the TV version from Hallmark in 1987.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/46975-the-secret-garden
Reply by Strange Bedfellows
on November 17, 2020 at 4:44 AM
Thank you for the links.
Reply by bratface
on November 17, 2020 at 2:25 PM
You are welcome.
Reply by bratface
on December 10, 2020 at 12:50 AM
Just finished watching & all I can say is, meh? Although the gardens were lovely.
5/10
Reply by Gjermund
on October 24, 2023 at 4:03 AM
Always a non-white implanted into a medium with a white girl. Of course they did it with one of the most wholesome white movies ever.