In our One Year Spectacular, we created four Top 10 lists. Best cast roles, worst choices, best moments, and Top 10 adaptations of the past year of Adapt or Perish. Here’s the second in a series of posts detailing each list.
First, our nominees. Click each to go to that episode!
- Anne’s blue dress, Anne of Green Gables (1985)
- Pigs in the house (and the overall ignorance of proper etiquette), Pride & Prejudice (2005)
- Making The Hobbit into three movies, The Hobbit Trilogy (2012–2014)
- Dwarf Boyfriend and Elf Girlfriend, The Hobbit Trilogy (2012–2014)
- Casting primarily American actors in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
- The incredible shrinking Scrooge, Disney’s A Christmas Carol
- Casting Jim Carrey as everyone, Disney’s A Christmas Carol
- Casting adults as children in the 1933 and 1949 Little Women
- Removing the narration, The Handmaid’s Tale (1990)
- ”Action June” stabs the commander, The Handmaid’s Tale (1990)
- Making Dr. Watson a buffoon, The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
- Updating the story to modern day, Murder on the Orient Express (2001)
- Turning all of the children into teenagers, The Giver
- Failing to turn The Producers BACK into a movie, The Producers (2005)
- Shooting Betrayed poorly, The Producers (2005)
- The lack of dialogue in The Joy Luck Club
- Giving Willy Wonka a backstory (and casting Johnny Depp), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- Making the children monsters, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. The whole thing.
- The subtle pedophilia of The Little Prince (1974)
- Fried Green Tomatoes. Too white/not black enough. Too straight/not gay enough.
And here’s how our final list shook out after the draft:
- The subtle pedophilia of The Little Prince (1974)
- Making The Hobbit into three movies, The Hobbit Trilogy (2012–2014)
- Casting adults as children in the 1933 and 1949 Little Women
- Failing to turn The Producers BACK into a movie, The Producers (2005)
- The lack of dialogue in The Joy Luck Club
- Giving Willy Wonka a backstory (and casting Johnny Depp), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- Pigs in the house (and the overall ignorance of proper etiquette), Pride & Prejudice (2005)
- Dwarf Boyfriend and Elf Girlfriend, The Hobbit Trilogy (2012–2014)
- Anne’s blue dress, Anne of Green Gables (1985)
- Making Dr. Watson a buffoon, The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
Just…questionable choices, all around.