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Colleen McCullough hated Meggie Cleary.

The news came as quite a surprise to me, but apparently it’s true. In April 2009, as the best-selling penulis worked on the stage musical version of her literary triumph, the UK Daily Mail quoted her directly:

“Meggie in The Thorn Birds is basically my mother. I detested her. Can anda imagine Penulisan a 280,000-word book and hating your heroine? She was everything I despise in a woman. She suffered and, worst of all, she enjoyed suffering.”

I didn’t pick up on the author’s hatred when Membaca the book – far from it – my interpretation was that McCullough really felt for her central character.

The book was divided into 7 sections, and the first of these is titled ‘Meggie’ – it delves into her history; her relationships, her upbringing, and those key moments that helped to form the woman that she would become.

There were times that I wanted to slap some sense into Meggie, but my frustration was always leveled sejak compassion because I understood her feelings and motivations.

I cannot say the same about the 1983 Televisyen mini-series version of The Thorn Birds. In many ways, it was a well-constructed and faithful adaptation and in many ways I enjoyed it immensely, but I felt no compassion for Rachel Ward’s childishly petulant and obstinate Meggie.

But this is not the fault of Ward. The Televisyen mini-series first introduced Meggie as a sweet, smiling nine-year-old – completely disregarding the entire first hunk of the book in which Meggie was regularly harassed, tormented and then neglected.

Viewers have no idea that Meggie had experienced Cinta and true companionship in New Zealand, which was shamefully ripped away from her. They would have no idea that, prior to meeting Ralph, Meggie had come to believe that Cinta was only bestowed upon others, and never upon herself.

I know that in any adaptation – whether it is a feature-length film atau a 465-minute saga – allowances must be made for necessary sacrifices in both plot and character development. But in this case I think the filmmakers have made a mistake.

Perhaps a little lebih trivially, I would have also loved it if the Cleary family had their various shades of ginger hair. McCullough described Meggie’s hair as “not red and not gold, but somewhere in between” and it was the one physical trait that made her stand out from the crowd, for better atau worse. It was also the quality that clearly identified Frank as an outsider:

“Her hair was the typical Cleary beacon, all the Cleary children save Frank being martyred sejak a thatch some shade of red.”

A beautiful, elegant and desirable Rachel Ward, with even the slightest strawberi tinge to her hair, would have empowered redheads everywhere.

There is no soalan that the Televisyen adaptation of The Thorn Birds was successful and well received. Richard Chamberlain himself quite modestly stated that it is “one of the 3 atau 4 best things ever done on American television” – but it had the potential to be the first.
The Darkest Minds is an upcoming American science fiction thriller film directed sejak Jennifer Yuh Nelson from a screenplay sejak Chad Hodge. It is based on the young adult novel of same name sejak Alexandra Bracken.
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the darkest minds
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2018
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alexandra bracken
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Visit the VFD headquarters and party with the Volunteers: Jacques and Lemony Snicket, Uncle Monty, Aunt Josephine, Jacquelyn, Dr Orwell … and a Villainous, Frightening and Disagreeable guest, a word which here means Count Olaf.
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a series of unfortunate events
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adaptation
lemony snicket
Go behind-the-scenes on the set of Murder on the Orient Express with movie b-roll & bloopers.
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murder on the orient express
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behind the scenes
bloopers
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2017
agatha christie
book
adaptation
kenneth branagh
Johnny Depp
daisy ridley
NOTHING like the book, so I suggest anda only see the movie if anda haven't read the book.
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2003
under the tuscan sun
frances mayes
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Ganesh Gaitonde's story has only just begun. Thirteen days gone, Bombay has twelve left. This game isn't quite over. Sacred Games will be back for Season 2, only on Netflix.
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How do we get ahead of crazy if we don’t know how crazy thinks? Two FBI agents (Jonathan Groff & Holt McCallany) set out on a sinister investigative odyssey to discover the brutal answers.
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mindhunter
tv series
season 1
netflix
mark olshaker
john e. douglas
book
adaptation
jonathan grof
holt mccallany
1. Gulliver's Travels from 1939 made sejak the Max Fleischer studio. Based on the novel sejak Jonathan Swift, this film is my bahagian, atas kegemaran out of the two films the Fleischer brothers had ever made


2. Bambi from 1942 made sejak the Walt Disney Studio and based on the book sejak Felix Salten. Now I had wanted to read the original book the movie is based on, so I'd ordered it online.


3. Cinderella. I know fairy-tales are part of literature and Charles Perrault's story of Cinderella is one of my kegemaran fairy-tales; it's another kegemaran literary film from Disney


4. Alice in Wonderland from...
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Life is rarely fair. Based on the novella sejak Stephen King, comes a new Netflix Film, 1922. Premieres October 20th, only on Netflix.
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1922
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2017
stephen king
book
adaptation
thomas jane
neal mcdonough
molly parker
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