66. Anne of Green Gables, Part 2

It's been a long time coming, but Adapt or Perish is finally going back to Avonlea to revisit L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables!

In this episode we discuss:

• L.M. Montgomery's original 1908 novel.
• Anne of Green Gables (RKO, 1934), directed by George Nicholls, Jr., written by Sam Mintz, and starring Anne Shirley (!), Tom Brown, Helen Westley, and O.P. Heggie.
• Akage no An (Nippon Animation, 1979), written and directed by Isao Takahata, with contributions from Hayao Miyazaki.
• Anne of Green Gables (CBC, 1985), written and directed by Kevin Sullivan, and starring Megan Follows, Colleen Dewhurst, Richard Farnsworth, and Jonathan Crombie.
• L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables (YTV, 2016), directed by John Kent Harrison, written by Susan Coyne, and starring Ella Ballentine, Sara Botsford, and Martin Sheen.
• Anne with an E (CBC/Netflix, 2017–2019), created by Moira Walley-Beckett, and starring Amybeth McNulty, Geraldine James, R.H. Thomson, and Lucas Jade Zumann.

Footnotes:

• Our first look at Anne of Green Gables, Episode One of Adapt or Perish
• All the other Anne of Green Gables adaptations we couldn't get
• "Why Anne of Green Gables Is Big In Japan" from the HuffPost
• "Anne of Green Gables: The Most Popular Redhead in Japan" from BBC News
• "Kawaii," Japan's culture of cuteness
• Arielle's dramatic reading of Anne on Librivox
• Slings & Arrows (2003–2006)

65. The Thomas Crown Affair

In this totally cool, totally criminal, and somewhat sexy episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss The Thomas Crown Affair!

For this episode, we watched and discussed:

• The Thomas Crown Affair (United Artists, 1968), directed by Norman Jewison, written by Alan Trustman, and Starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway.
• The Thomas Crown Affair (MGM, 1999), directed by John McTiernan, written by Leslie Dixon and Kurt Wimmer, and starring Pierce Brosnan, Rene Russo, and Denis Leary.

Footnotes:

• “The Windmills of Your Mind” performed by Noel Harrison
• Fiddler on the Roof (United Artists, 1971), directed by Norman Jewison
• “Brosnan uses his Bond clout to remake Thomas Crown Affair” from EON Magazine
• My Dad Wrote a Porno
• Fay Weldon’s 2001 novel The Bulgari Connection
• Baumgartner Restoration on YouTube
• “The Windmills of Your Mind” performed by Sting
• Topkapi (United Artists, 1964)
• “‘Captain America’ Helmers Joseph & Anthony Russo Join Michael B. Jordan To Produce New ‘Thomas Crown Affair’” from Deadline

64. The Borrowers

In this very special episode of Adapt or Perish, we get REAL small and discuss the classic children’s book The Borrowers!

For this episode, we read and watched:

• Mary Norton’s original 1952 novel.
• The Borrowers (Hallmark, 1973), directed by Walter C. Miller, written by Jay Presson Allen, and starring Eddie Albert, Tammy Grimes, and Judith Anderson.
• The Borrowers (BBC, 1992), directed by John Henderson, written by Richard Carpenter, and starring Ian Holm, Penelope Wilton, Rebecca Callard, and Siân Phillips.
• The Borrowers (PolyGram, 1997), directed by Peter Hewitt, written by Gavin Scott and John Kamps, and starring John Goodman, Jim Broadbent, Celia Imrie, Flora Newbigin, Mark Williams, and Hugh Laurie.
• Arrietty/Arrietty the Borrower/The Secret World of Arrietty (Studio Ghibli, 2010), directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, written by Keiko Niwa and Hayao Miyazaki.
• The Borrowers (BBC, 2011), directed by Tom Harper, written by Ben Vanstone, and starring Christopher Eccleston, Sharon Horgan, Aisling Loftus, Anne Hirsch, and Stephen Fry.

Footnotes:

• Mary Norton’s Borrowers sequels: The Borrowers Afield (1955), The Borrowers Afloat (1959), The Borrowers Aloft (1961), and The Borrowers Avenged (1982)
• Bedknobs and Broomsticks (Disney, 1971)
• The Return of the Borrowers (BBC, 1993)
• I, Podius
• Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (Orion, 1991) and Small Soldiers (DreamWorks, 1998)
• GQ: John Goodman Breaks Down His Most Iconic Characters
• Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli