One Year Spectacular: Top 10 Adaptations

In our One Year Spectacular, we created four Top 10 lists. Best cast roles, worst choices, best moments, and Top 10 adaptations of the past year of Adapt or Perish. Here’s the last in a series of posts detailing each list.

First, our nominees. Click each to go to that episode!

• Anne with an E
• Jurassic Park
• Pride & Prejudice (1995)
• The Muppet Christmas Carol
• A Christmas Carol (1999)
• Little Women (1994)
• Fun Home
• The Handmaid’s Tale (2017–)
• Children of Men
• The Godfather
• The Godfather: The Game
• The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
• The Hound of the Baskervilles (1988)
• The Princess Bride
• Carol
• The Producers (2001)
• Jaws
• The Birdcage
• Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
• A Perfect Murder
• The Little Prince (2015)
• A Wrinkle in Time (2018)

And here are our Top 10 adaptations from our first year!

1. Pride & Prejudice (1995)
2. The Little Prince (2015)
3. The Princess Bride
4. Little Women (1994)
5. A Wrinkle in Time (2018)
6. Jurassic Park
7. Anne with an E
8. The Birdcage
9. The Godfather: The Game
10. The Muppet Christmas Carol

One Year Spectacular: Top 10 Moments

In our One Year Spectacular, we created four Top 10 lists. Best cast roles, worst choices, best moments, and Top 10 adaptations of the past year of Adapt or Perish. Here’s the third in a series of posts detailing each list.

First, our nominees. Click each to go to that episode! ( As much as possible, I tried to link to a clip of each moment.)

• “She’s my daughter!” Anne with an E
• “You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” Pride & Prejudice (1995)
• “I must stand on my head!” A Christmas Carol (1951)
• “We’re Marley & Marley, our hearts are painted black!” The Muppet Christmas Carol
• “Not empty now.” Little Women (1994)
• Ring of Keys, Fun Home
• “Fuck.” The Handmaid’s Tale (2017–)
• “As you value your life or your reason keep away from the moor.” The Hound of the Baskervilles (1998)
• “I want a word with the maid!” Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
• “I am of an age where I know what I like and what I do not like…” Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
• “Who do you have to fuck to get a break in this town?!” The Producers (2001)
• “OH FUCK, THERE’S A SHARK.” Jaws
• The USS Indianapolis & Show Me The Way To Go Home. Jaws
• “No, no, I won’t hold you responsible.” Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
• “Downtown?” The Little Prince (2015)
• “‘Tomorrow, there’ll be more of us.’ - Miranda, American.” A Wrinkle in Time (2018)
• Meg starts the tesser. A Wrinkle in Time (2018)
• “This is what she wanted.” “What, to be dead?!” Fried Green Tomatoes

And here’s the final list!

1. “‘Tomorrow, there’ll be more of us.’ - Miranda, American.” A Wrinkle in Time (2018)
2. Ring of Keys, Fun Home
3. “As you value your life or your reason keep away from the moor.” The Hound of the Baskervilles (1998)
4. “I am of an age where I know what I like and what I do not like…” Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
5. “OH FUCK, THERE’S A SHARK.” Jaws
6. “She’s my daughter!” Anne with an E
7. “You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” Pride & Prejudice (1995)
8. “I want a word with the maid!” Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
9. “Fuck.” The Handmaid’s Tale (2017–)
10. “This is what she wanted.” “What, to be dead?!” Fried Green Tomatoes

One Year Spectacular: Bottom 10 Choices

In our One Year Spectacular, we created four Top 10 lists. Best cast roles, worst choices, best moments, and Top 10 adaptations of the past year of Adapt or Perish. Here’s the second in a series of posts detailing each list.

First, our nominees. Click each to go to that episode!

• Anne’s blue dress, Anne of Green Gables (1985)
• Pigs in the house (and the overall ignorance of proper etiquette), Pride & Prejudice (2005)
• Making The Hobbit into three movies, The Hobbit Trilogy (2012–2014)
• Dwarf Boyfriend and Elf Girlfriend, The Hobbit Trilogy (2012–2014)
• Casting primarily American actors in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
• The incredible shrinking Scrooge, Disney’s A Christmas Carol
• Casting Jim Carrey as everyone, Disney’s A Christmas Carol
• Casting adults as children in the 1933 and 1949 Little Women
• Removing the narration, The Handmaid’s Tale (1990)
• ”Action June” stabs the commander, The Handmaid’s Tale (1990)
• Making Dr. Watson a buffoon, The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
• Updating the story to modern day, Murder on the Orient Express (2001)
• Turning all of the children into teenagers, The Giver
• Failing to turn The Producers BACK into a movie, The Producers (2005)
• Shooting Betrayed poorly, The Producers (2005)
• The lack of dialogue in The Joy Luck Club
• Giving Willy Wonka a backstory (and casting Johnny Depp), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• Making the children monsters, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. The whole thing.
• The subtle pedophilia of The Little Prince (1974)
• Fried Green Tomatoes. Too white/not black enough. Too straight/not gay enough.

And here’s how our final list shook out after the draft:

1. The subtle pedophilia of The Little Prince (1974)
2. Making The Hobbit into three movies, The Hobbit Trilogy (2012–2014)
3. Casting adults as children in the 1933 and 1949 Little Women
4. Failing to turn The Producers BACK into a movie, The Producers (2005)
5. The lack of dialogue in The Joy Luck Club
6. Giving Willy Wonka a backstory (and casting Johnny Depp), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
7. Pigs in the house (and the overall ignorance of proper etiquette), Pride & Prejudice (2005)
8. Dwarf Boyfriend and Elf Girlfriend, The Hobbit Trilogy (2012–2014)
9. Anne’s blue dress, Anne of Green Gables (1985)
10. Making Dr. Watson a buffoon, The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)

Just…questionable choices, all around.