According to some foreign sources, Burnett's "The Little Princess" was influenced by Charlotte Bronte's unfinished novel "Emma". Perhaps it is for this reason that "The Little Princess", which should have been aimed at children, has added a lot of reality and cruelty in the adult world. How to choose these into the film and television works, the key is to see the director's understanding of the work and his positioning of the film.
Judging from the film itself, Alfonso Curran seems to have positioned the film as a fairy tale theme and added certain fantasy elements. Perhaps because of this consideration, the film increased Sarah's role in India (the original book almost took this part in a brush), which also gave Sarah in the film a lot of memories of India. The purpose of adding this stroke to the film is to increase the magical color of the story, and show the story of the Indian prince and princess in Sarah's mind through some special effects clips that are often interspersed in the film.
Let's talk about the belief that Sarah has always maintained in this film - "Every girl is a princess". This sentence is not actually from the original book, and this sentence is actually a slogan that Disney used when promoting "Disney Princess" (I just don't know which is earlier). Therefore, this sentence is very commensurate with the fairy tale atmosphere of the film, and it also makes this sentence a classic line of the whole film. But using this sentence in a work that is not positioned as a fairy tale seems very thunderous.
The ending of "The Little Princess" can be said to be a happy ending mixed with a little sadness, and the tragic part is that Sarah's father really died. For a film that is positioned as a fairy tale, if the audience's acceptance is considered, the ending can be changed to a happy ending. In the film, Sarah's father did not die, but lost his memory due to serious injuries. In the end, Sarah's father regained his memory and recovered the property he had lost due to a misunderstanding. He left the school with Sarah and the little maid Becky, but Miss Mingqing lost her position as the principal and was reduced to Sweep the street on the road. This is exactly how the good people finally have a good destination, and the bad people also get their due retribution, which is completely the standard fairy tale ending.
I'm puzzled by the film's setting that Sarah's mother also studied at Mingqing Academy, because the setting in the original book is simply unreasonable, and even from the film itself, this setting seems awkward. , and even to reflect "why choose Mingqing Academy for Sarah", I don't think it is necessary to do so. Regarding the fact that Becky the little maid is black, the original book does not indicate Becky's race, but even from the point of view of the place where the original book took place in the United Kingdom, it seems that there is such a possibility. The plot of "Six Breads" in the original book only leaves a shadow in the film. In fact, if the plot cannot be arranged, this fragment can be completely deleted. There are a lot of flaws and flaws in many parts of the film. If you look carefully, you can find them one by one. I don't want to go into details here. If you don't care about the details, you don't need to dwell on them.
Finally, let's talk about some of the characters and actors in the film. This time, the actor Liesel Matthews, who played the little princess Sarah, is not bad in general, although it is only part of Sarah's character, and her acting skills are not as good as the starring Emilia Shang in the 86th edition. Klee, but it's okay to put it in the movie. In this film, Camilla Bell plays a very inconspicuous lower-grade girl. She has almost no role in the whole film, which makes her not easy to be recognized in the film. Several of Sarah's classmates: Ermengard, Lottie, Laveria and other supporting roles are very mediocre, failing to highlight the characters of these people. But Becky, the little black maid, played very well. She was almost the second protagonist after Sarah in the whole film. Among the adult roles, the role of Miss Mingqing is very well played (but I don’t know if the actor who plays her will cause trouble for it), Sarah’s father plays a good role, but she has a feeling of shaping the Indian Ramdas It's a failure, the film fails to show that he is secretly helping Sarah.
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