After seeing the show released by Netflix, I went back and read the original with excitement, and then it took two seasons to open it. But seeing "pet the mouse" in the fourth episode of the first season, I can't stand it anymore.
The costumes, props, framing and casting of certain characters in this show are undoubtedly really good. For example, the heroine, thin, white, ugly, red hair, gray eyes, and hemp body, etc. are all very close to the original work. The view of Edward Island is also a feast for the eyes. But other than that, there is really nothing I want to praise about this drama. Especially the adaptation of the plot, it made me feel like I had eaten a fly, and I couldn't vomit it out or swallow it.
The screenwriter of this play is said to have written four Breaking Bad "Breaking Bad". In an interview with Canadian radio station CBC (also one of the partners who made this show), she said:
So it's like I sort of open up the spine of the book, reach in between the lines of the pages, and chart some new territory
I don't know if the screenwriter has gone crazy, so the entire adaptation of the plot is too dark. For example, in the first four episodes of the show (I can only see it here), the "pet the mouse" stalk keeps appearing, where mouse refers to the male reproductive organs, and pet the mouse here means "sexual intercourse." Not only did Anne know this expression, she talked about the different moans she heard from women in the "pet the mouse" behavior while eating lunch at school. Not only that, but the screenwriter seems to be "unintentional", arranging Anne's props when she was bullied in the orphanage as a mouse? ! In addition, when Anne was flogged in the last host family, her posture with the perpetrator was also very "sexual"-Anne knelt on a chopped tree stump, the father of the foster family Kneeling on one knee, slapping her hips with a belt behind her... It all made me look very uncomfortable. I'm not making a fuss about "sex". There are many children's literature works that have tried or are on the edge of "sex", and through the trial, they describe the process of growing from a child to a teenager without losing elegance and beauty. . The adaptation of this drama has a dark, cold tone that makes people very uncomfortable. The screenwriter seems to be trying his best to overthrow what the original book wants to express: Although there are various "turns" in life (that is, the bend in the original text), if you have optimism, resilience, relatives and friends, and contentment, you can also live a good life. Living.
After all, readers are not fools. Anyone who has a little (according to Anne's words) scope of imagination should be able to imagine how miserable the life of a little girl who is less than ten years old with both parents dead, under the fence, and turbulent life. The book is not without any vague mention that there were no fairy happy days in the previous host family. Even Marella, in the first half of this book, is so difficult to please, so much so that I think that in the childhood life of the author Montgomery, there once existed such a stern, conservative, pious, and unsmiling elder. This elder may have always disliked Montgomery, and she is using this book to soften her memory and smooth out the unhappiness she had left because she did not like her. Because in the book, she described more than once that Anne didn’t know that the stern Marella had actually been soft in heart and loved Anne very much. There was no certain childhood unresolved knot, nor would she tell it over and over again. She, in fact, loves you, she just won't express it easily. We all understand this, but the screenwriter may feel that if the wound is not cut to the bone, the audience will forget that there is a wound here.
The screenwriter not only arranged PTSD for Anne, but also adapted her brilliant literary talent into a defense mechanism after abuse? I can go to you! Our Anne is not a victim who is out of touch with reality! Not only this, but also arranged for Anne to be discriminated against and bullied at the village party and at the school. Diana, the fat and round best friend, turned into a precocious, square-faced old housekeeper in the play. In the fourth episode, Anne was warned not to get involved with the boys that other girls liked, and where I had lunch with the girls, I almost thought I was watching Mean girls...
Of course, it’s not only here that I’m upset about this drama, including but not limited to the failure of the hero Gilbert’s casting, the old Matthew was hit on his head when riding a horse to find Anne who returned to the orphanage, and he sold a pocket watch. Anne was caught in the woods. The big boy was threatened and almost beaten. Later, Matthew still wanted to commit suicide because of unbearable heart problems? ! ! This is all the fucking magic? ?
Although the rating of this show is quite high, I think part of the reason is that it was published by Netflix. Now there seems to be a kind of "trend": as long as Netflix's dramas are good-looking, special and purposeful... Of course there are still quite a few viewers and commentators that this drama is too mature and dark . An article on The New Yorker directly dissed How not to Adapt Anne of Green Gables (Sarah Larson, May 11 2017), indicating that this drama is simply a "how to wrongly adapt "Annie in the Green House"" this article The author has a sentence I think it is very good:
A realistic but warmhearted “Anne” could have been made, with these actors and these aesthetics, if its creator had had faith in Montgomery's narrative and had more clearly seen the power of what's already there.
As long as the screenwriter has a little more confidence in Montgomery’s original work, and can really understand the power contained in it; coupled with the casting and costume props of this show, we might be able to see a man who came out of the book "Annie of the Green House".
Pity.
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