For those who don't know what I am talking about, let's take some famous books and look at why these have become successful movies:
1. The Wizard of Oz is one of the many popular movie adaptations based on the novel by L. Frank Baum. While the movie was made during the end of the Great Depression (1939), the movie and the novel both retell the plot of economy and many monetary standards that would apply to modern day. The issue that the author, L. Frank Baum is trying to illustrate would be how the money of the olden days was being backed up by the gold standard. Gold is one of the precious metals that was used in developing coins or certain forms of currency. If there isn't enough gold to back up the money we use to buy, trade, and sell our items for even more things we don't need, the whole purpose of the gold standard and backup to support our green bills (also known today as dollars) will lose the value and that we have indefinitely placed on the money that drives our economic force today. The Emerald City, also known as the place in which all people want to live, will become a never ending dream. Perhaps, a dream that will only remain a dream because only the elite would be able to live there. If you don't believe me, please watch the Dark Side of OZ (1973), in which the plot still stays the same, but the use of Pink Floyd enhances the plots hidden meaning.
2. Harry Potter is another novel that focuses on how a young boy achieves success against all odds. While there is a man who is on a quest for ending the life of this miracle boy, there is also a hidden meaning towards Harry's friends who join him on his never-ending adventure. The movies portray a young man overcoming all odds and learns how to accept his new found identity. While the novels and the movies can be studied for LBGT tolerance, the fact that being a wizard or a muggle being, should not hinder your struggles and lead you to become the next victim of the Dark Lord.
3. Pride & Prejudice is a classical novel on how the impact on how a person's vices and virtues would be a problem for a person to find love, marriage, or find their perfect 'match'. Unlike Twilight's rehashing of this historic novel to promote the ways in which an abusive relationship would leave you open and vulnerable, the modern tale is overcoming your own personal hatred towards someone of a particular class standing and be able to be happy with the person you love. Elizabeth Bennett is the second oldest of five sisters. Fitzwilliam Darcy is the nephew of a wealthy Duchess. When the two first meet, they are in fact revolted by each other. Elizabeth Bennett tells her sister Jane to reject the marriage proposal from Darcy's friend Mr. Bingley, she uses her prejudicial view to explain that marrying a man of wealth, only leads to trouble. Unfortunately, our heroine falls for a man whose pride turns against him and makes him vulnerable for a woman who refuses to marry a man and succumb to his fatal attraction.
4. Corpse Bride may be one of the most interesting Burton stories that he has ever created using clay-animation. The story is about a boy who is unable to perform the wedding ceremony properly with a woman he is paired up with for financial reasons. Somehow it sounds all too similar when someone thinks about the movie Fiddler on the Roof and you may be right. This movie is about the story of one particular Jewish custom that was acted out during the 19th century. In Victorian Russia, Jews were not a welcome sort. So when the marriages occurred in Jewish sections of Russia, there was always a little bit of anger to fuel the flames. If the bride was murdered, or died in some strange way on the day of her wedding day before the honeymoon. The bride would be buried in her wedding gown because she was the bearer of future generations. Although this is a true tale as told by many Russian Jewish people who lived in Russia or passed it on, there shouldn't any kind of question regarding the statement 'till death do you part.
While I am talking about stories that have been edited, rehashed, or retold in alternate settings, I will not cover the Grimm's Tales and it's Disney adaptations or the alternate forms of telling Grimm Fairy Tales that do not follow the same context as the original story because that would take too long and then there wouldn't be enough left to cover stories that would be more suitable for anyone who is not interested in any more Disney Films. Check back later for when I use Disney films to talk about nonconforming movies that are appropriate for children if they choose not to be the next Princess Cinderella, Belle, or Aurora.
5. The Blob is considered a class science fiction movie about an alien species devouring everything in its wake. While the film is about an actual police report in Pennsylvania, the movie seemed to take this mysterious encounter between cops, bullets, and alien gelatin and use it for Cold War propaganda.
6. The final movie retelling actually happens to involve one of the sexiest men alive and the first Bond ever, Sean Connery. The Hunt for Red October is based on an actual novel about the mutiny of Captain Valery Sablin, a Russian soldier who was abandoned by his crew because Communist wanted to hijack his own sub.
If you are interested in learning more about these stories, their plots, or any scientific studies, check out the links provided below:
Wizard of Oz Novel Themes
Oz in Politics and Money
HP and LBGT
Russian Antisemitism in Victorian Russia
Dark Size of Oz complete movie
Popular Movies from True Stories
3. Pride & Prejudice is a classical novel on how the impact on how a person's vices and virtues would be a problem for a person to find love, marriage, or find their perfect 'match'. Unlike Twilight's rehashing of this historic novel to promote the ways in which an abusive relationship would leave you open and vulnerable, the modern tale is overcoming your own personal hatred towards someone of a particular class standing and be able to be happy with the person you love. Elizabeth Bennett is the second oldest of five sisters. Fitzwilliam Darcy is the nephew of a wealthy Duchess. When the two first meet, they are in fact revolted by each other. Elizabeth Bennett tells her sister Jane to reject the marriage proposal from Darcy's friend Mr. Bingley, she uses her prejudicial view to explain that marrying a man of wealth, only leads to trouble. Unfortunately, our heroine falls for a man whose pride turns against him and makes him vulnerable for a woman who refuses to marry a man and succumb to his fatal attraction.
4. Corpse Bride may be one of the most interesting Burton stories that he has ever created using clay-animation. The story is about a boy who is unable to perform the wedding ceremony properly with a woman he is paired up with for financial reasons. Somehow it sounds all too similar when someone thinks about the movie Fiddler on the Roof and you may be right. This movie is about the story of one particular Jewish custom that was acted out during the 19th century. In Victorian Russia, Jews were not a welcome sort. So when the marriages occurred in Jewish sections of Russia, there was always a little bit of anger to fuel the flames. If the bride was murdered, or died in some strange way on the day of her wedding day before the honeymoon. The bride would be buried in her wedding gown because she was the bearer of future generations. Although this is a true tale as told by many Russian Jewish people who lived in Russia or passed it on, there shouldn't any kind of question regarding the statement 'till death do you part.
While I am talking about stories that have been edited, rehashed, or retold in alternate settings, I will not cover the Grimm's Tales and it's Disney adaptations or the alternate forms of telling Grimm Fairy Tales that do not follow the same context as the original story because that would take too long and then there wouldn't be enough left to cover stories that would be more suitable for anyone who is not interested in any more Disney Films. Check back later for when I use Disney films to talk about nonconforming movies that are appropriate for children if they choose not to be the next Princess Cinderella, Belle, or Aurora.
5. The Blob is considered a class science fiction movie about an alien species devouring everything in its wake. While the film is about an actual police report in Pennsylvania, the movie seemed to take this mysterious encounter between cops, bullets, and alien gelatin and use it for Cold War propaganda.
6. The final movie retelling actually happens to involve one of the sexiest men alive and the first Bond ever, Sean Connery. The Hunt for Red October is based on an actual novel about the mutiny of Captain Valery Sablin, a Russian soldier who was abandoned by his crew because Communist wanted to hijack his own sub.
If you are interested in learning more about these stories, their plots, or any scientific studies, check out the links provided below:
Wizard of Oz Novel Themes
Oz in Politics and Money
HP and LBGT
Russian Antisemitism in Victorian Russia
Dark Size of Oz complete movie
Popular Movies from True Stories
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