Anne With and E Netflix
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Anonymous
| Just binged the first season. Loved some aspects, hated others. A lot of changes from the books, in terms of aging Anne up a bit. It is much less about an adventurous child and more about the adult characters, but I think the flashbacks to her time before she came to Avonlea add a depth that is hinted at but not explored in most versions. |
Anonymous
| I liked it well enough, first episode was the best one, imo, but then I always liked Anne of Green Gables. One thing I don't like is that it is pretty dark take on it. |
Anonymous
| I'm really struggling to enjoy it. It's such a dark take on what is a happy story. It definitely shows that the creator worked on breaking bad. |
Anonymous
| See I think it was always a dark story. It was the story of an abused and neglected orphan who struggled to fit in and a pair of elderly siblings who had set aside all hope of anything but a hard grind through their retirement years finding happiness because they realized that connecting and loving one another helped them overcome their dark past. I think there is added depth when you realize what a contrast there is between the before and the after for all of the characters. |
Anonymous
| I binged it too. I enjoyed it but have such a hard time when so much artistic license is taken. I wonder what Lucy Maud Montgomery would think of it? She (LMM) had a difficult life, mostly post marriage. Still it was interesting...but a bit too dark. |
Anonymous
I disagree. In the original stories and adaptation, the characters each had struggles and pain but they were still happy and loving people. This new adaptation removes any and all joy from the story and makes everyone and everything awful. |
Anonymous
I disagree as well. Marilla and Matthew weren't unhappy or unconnected. Marilla had come to terms with being a "spinster" but was an integral part of her community. Matthew was always a homebody and shy, but not unhappy. Having Anne in their lives opened them up in ways and made their lives all the better. LM Montgomery used these same character types in Emily of New Moon series as well. The whole point of her stories was for the characters to find happiness and connection. If you want to talk about "dark," Lucy Maud Montgomery's life was dark. She wrote the stories in part as catharsis b/c she was so desperately unhappy. She was married to a man with untreated mental illness. Although it's not well known, LM Montgomery committed suicide b/c caring for her husband took it's toll. |
Anonymous
Just watching this, and it really, really sucks. Portraying Anne as having PTSD with the upsetting flashbacks and OCD with pinching herself didn't happen in the original version. They took a lovely kids book and turned it into a pile of sh*t. There are plenty of kids stories and movies that show the gritty sides of things--To Kill a Mockingbird, Oliver! Bridge to Terabithia come to mind. The creators of Anne with E are just capitalizing on the popularity of Anne of Green Gables. The horrible writing of Anne saying stuff like 8 children made the Hammonds very vexed--Anne wasn't stupid, but apparently the script writers are. They've completely missed the humor and subtlety of how Anne characterizes things, "I'm sure I could never have lived there if I hadn't had an imagination. Mr. Hammond worked a little sawmill up there, and Mrs. Hammond had eight children. She had twins three times. I like babies in moderation, but twins three times in succession is too much. I told Mrs. Hammond so firmly, when the last pair came. I used to get so dreadfully tired carrying them about..." The 1985 version showed life with the Hammonds "gritty" without being gratuitous. Yes, Anne was an over-worked, abused orphan. The new Netflix version is not a kids' show and it should be. |
Anonymous
| I actually appreciate showing the reality of her life before she came to Green Gables. I loved the old version too but she always seemed a bit happy go lucky to me for a kid who was shuttled around basically working as a slave for jerks. It just makes it more amazing that she made it through that with and came out the other end like a breath of fresh air. |
Anonymous
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The opening theme song is SO horrible. What was going through their mind? The visuals are beautiful but then they have this annoying soft-rock song? Why not a rap song or techno? It would be just as inappropriate.
To me, Amybeth has a very stilted delivery, just kind of out the lines with a little laugh in almost every line as an indicator that she is "being passionate.' She becomes more natural as the episodes progress, but she comes across as inauthentic. Just a kid actor delivering lines. Her whole delivery is so flat. Jerry is also another bad child actor on this show who gets too much airtime. The actress in the 1985 version was just so perfect. Anne was fiery, emotional, in love with language and storytelling. So believable to me. The strong points of this show are watching Marilla, Rachel Lynde, and Diana. So, so good. Love their portrayal of those characters. The cinematography is absolutely gorgeous. Also, Matthew is totally hot. Yum. |
Anonymous
They didn't show the "reality" of her life. The 1980s version made up that Anne was late with Mr. Hammond's lunch to the saw mill. In Anne with an E, they made up that Mr. Hammond had a heart attack while he beat her with a belt while she was bent over a tree stump. It also looks at first like he's raping her. ------------------------- "Then Mrs. Hammond from up the river came down and said she'd take me, seeing I was handy with children, and I went up the river to live with her in a little clearing among the stumps. It was a very lonesome place. I'm sure I could never have lived there if I hadn't had an imagination. Mr. Hammond worked a little sawmill up there, and Mrs. Hammond had eight children. She had twins three times. I like babies in moderation, but twins three times in succession is TOO MUCH. I told Mrs. Hammond so firmly, when the last pair came. I used to get so dreadfully tired carrying them about. “I lived up river with Mrs. Hammond over two years, and then Mr. Hammond died and Mrs. Hammond broke up housekeeping. She divided her children among her relatives and went to the States. I had to go to the asylum at Hopeton, because nobody would take me. They didn't want me at the asylum, either; they said they were over-crowded as it was. But they had to take me and I was there four months until Mrs. Spencer came.” Anne finished up with another sigh, of relief this time. Evidently she did not like talking about her experiences in a world that had not wanted her." ----------------------- Is the character idealistically portrayed in the books? Definitely. Were orphaned or unwanted children abused, beaten, and used as slave labor? Yes. I think this version took it too far to make a point. |
Anonymous
Yeah, I don't believe for one minute that this kid believes in imagination. Anne may not have believed dryads were real, but she could pretend they were. |
Anonymous
| My read is that there are many, many versions of this for the kids. This is a version for grown-ups. The 1980's version is for people who identify with Diana--the plucky orphan is a breath of fresh air! This one is for people who identify with Marilla. |
Anonymous
You can go with this, sure. And then you can see how many disappointed moms there are who wanted to share this story with their kids 8+. That age, or uounger, would have been the expected age. When it was announced, that's what many of my friends thought. |
Anonymous
The versions should be for kids and adults b/c it's a book for kids. You can make a sanitized version of Jane Eyre for kids, but it's not a kids' book. |