31. Where the Wild Things Are & Fantastic Mr. Fox

December 04, 2018 in episode

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In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are and Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr. Fox!

For this episode, we read and watched:

Maurice Sendak’s original picture book, first published in 1963. Buy on Amazon.
Spike Jonze’s 2009 live-action feature adaptation. Written by Jonze and Dave Eggers, and starring Max Records, Catherine Keener, Lauren Ambrose, Chris Cooper, James Gandolfini, Catherine O’Hara, and Forest Whitaker. Watch on iTunes or Amazon.
Roald Dahl’s original book, first published in 1970. Read on Amazon or iBooks.
Wes Anderson’s 2009 stop-motion feature adaptation. Written by Anderson and Noah Baumbach, and starring George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, and Michael Gambon. Watch on iTunes or Amazon.

Footnotes:

Adapt or Perish Episode 22: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The first trailer for Where the Wild Things Are
Oskar and the Eight Blessings, written by Richard Simon and Tanya Simon, illustrated by Mark Siegel.
Glen Keane Live Animates The Little Mermaid's Ariel
Where The Wild Things Are - Early DISNEY CG Animation Test
“Vern's WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE review 'monsterpiece’!!!!”
A look at the recording of the dialogue in Where the Wild Things Are and Fantastic Mr. Fox
Yes, Roald Dahl was a bigot.

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30. Sherlock Holmes

November 20, 2018 in episode

In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes! This is the second of three episodes that we’re releasing on the character. We covered The Hound of the Baskervilles here.

For this episode, we watched 15 different actors portray the world’s greatest detective. Here they are in chronological order, with the piece or pieces that we watched:

Arthur Wontner. He played Holmes in five movies between 1931 and 1937. We watched him in The Sleeping Cardinal (or Sherlock Holmes’ Fatal Hour (1931).
Basil Rathbone. He starred as Holmes in 14 movies between 1939 and 1946. We watched him in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939).
Peter Cushing. He starred in movies and television as Holmes from 1959 to 1984. We watched him in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) and multiple episodes of Sherlock Holmes (1968).
John Neville. He played Holmes once in A Study in Terror (1965), going up against Jack the Ripper.
Robert Stephens. He starred in Billy Wilder’s The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970).
Nicol Williamson. He played Holmes in the film adaptation of Nicholas Meyer’s The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976), with Robert Duvall as Watson and Alan Arkin as Sigmund Freud.
Christopher Plummer. He played Holmes in Murder by Decree (1979) alongside James Mason as Watson. This was a Jack the Ripper story, too.
Tom Baker. He played Holmes in the serialized BBC production of The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982).
Ian Richardson. He played Holmes in two TV movies, both in 1983: The Sign of Four and The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Peter O’Toole. He provided the voice for Holmes in three animated movies in 1983. We watched Sherlock Holmes and a Study in Scarlet.
Jeremy Brett. He played the character in 41 episodes of Sherlock Holmes for Granada Television between 1984 and 1994. This show has been watched multiple times by our hosts.
Charlton Heston. He played Holmes on stage (1980) and TV (1991) in The Crucifer of Blood.
James D’Arcy. He played Holmes once in the TV movie Sherlock: Case of Evil in 2002.
Rupert Everett. He starred as Holmes in the BBC One TV movie Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking in 2004.
Robert Downey Jr. He starred with Jude Law as Watson in both Sherlock Holmes (2009) and its sequel, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011).

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29. Pete's Dragon

November 06, 2018 in episode

In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss Disney’s Pete’s Dragon!

For this episode, we watched and discussed:

The original 1977 movie musical, directed by Don Chaffey, written by Malcolm Marmorstein, and starring Helen Reddy, Jim Dale, Mickey Rooney, Red Buttons, and Shelley Winters. Watch on iTunes or Amazon.
The 2016 remake, written and directed by David Lowery, starring Bryce Dallas Howard, Robert Redford, Karl Urban, Wes Bentley, Oona Laurence, and Oakes Fegley. Watch on iTunes or Amazon.

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