17. The Price of Salt/Carol

In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss Patricia Highsmith’s The Price of Salt!

We read and watched:

• Highsmith’s original novel (1952). Read it on Amazon or iBooks.
• Carol, the 2015 movie adaptation, directed by Todd Haynes, written by Phyllis Nagy, and starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara. Watch it on Amazon or iTunes.

Footnotes:

• Autostraddle.com
• “The Glove Lunch” (CAROL parody - Kate McKinnon & Kumail Nanjiani | 2016 Film Independent Spirit Awards)
• “Bury Your Gays” on TVTropes.org
• Captain Awkward
• The Girl Who Owned a City by O.T. Nelson
• The Talented Mr. Ripley and Strangers on a Train
• The films of Todd Haynes: Velvet Goldmine, Far from Heaven, I’m Not There.

16. The Giver

This week, we discuss Lois Lowry’s The Giver!

In this episode, we read and watched:

• The original novel, originally published in 1993. Buy it on Amazon or iBooks.
• The 2014 movie, directed by Phillip Noyce and starring Brenton Thwaites, Meryl Streep, and Jeff Bridges. Watch it on Amazon or iTunes.

Footnotes:

• The Island (2005)
• The Weinstein Company
• Walden Media
• “I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.”
• Screenwriters Robert B. Weide and Michael Mitnick
• Pleasantville (1998)
• Stellar Skateboard
• The Giver panel at San Diego Comic Con 2014
• The Giver trailer on YouTube
• Baraka and Samsara

15. Murder on the Orient Express

This week, we discuss Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express!

In this episode, we read and watched:

• Agatha Christie’s novel, originally published in 1934. Buy on Amazon or iBooks.
• The 1974 movie, directed by Sidney Lumet, and starring Albert Finney as Hercule Poirot. Buy on Amazon or iTunes.
• The 2001 made-for-television movie, starring Alfred Molina. Watch on YouTube (we literally couldn’t find it anywhere else).
• The 2010 feature-length episode of Agatha Christie’s Poirot, starring David Suchet. Buy on iTunes.
• The 2017 movie, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh. Buy on Amazon or iTunes.

Some of the stuff we talked about in this episode:

• Clue
• The Lindbergh Kidnapping
• “It’s the Juice! Run, OJ, run!”
• Gosford Park
• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
• Arthur, starring John Gielgud as a butler
• Ranking Every Episode of Agatha Christie’s Poirot
• The original trailer for Kenneth Branagh’s Murder on the Orient Express
• Michael Green, screenwriter of the 2017 Murder on the Orient Express and Logan