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pain...much...pain

posted 17 years ago by inferno_ears
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I just finished watching the first movie, and reliving all the memories from past times watching it.
I remembered all the books I've read in the series (I'm still in the middle of Anne of the Windy Poplars. My life seems to follow the books, and presently I'm waiting for it to catch up)
So I wanted to see if there's any stirring of the waters.
And I find THIS!
"Now in her sixties, a disheartened Anne looks back on her early years in an attempt to draw inspiration. Lost beneath the floorboards of Green Gables, secrets are discovered that illuminate the troubled childhood and heartbreaking sorrow of Anne’s early years."
ARGG!!!

i realize that Sullivan started deviating from the books in movie 2, and that #3 was completely made up. THAT infuriates me!

And NOW, NOW... adding insult to injury!

"ooo let's make Anne depressed (PS, where is Gilbert?!?! Maybe they killed him off!)and then we'll create an early childhood that will make people ooo and aww like they did for the first movie! And let's modernize it by making her a 'pawn in a legal battle'. Wonderful!!!"

I read that there was a lawsuit, but can't they do something about Sullivan using the names and stories of the Montgomery characters? Can't they stop the prostituting of the love of Anne?!

I long to see someone make the other books REAL movies! Oh, my heart craves to lay eyes on the little cottage that she REALLY lived in with her college buddies and the cats!
wimper

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[–] katie9918 17 years ago

Actually, it seems to me that Sullivan is drawing from Lucy Maud Montgomery's own later life for this particular outing.

The two World Wars, along with familial disharmony and general disappointment, disillusioned Maud and it's been said that she was still depressed at the time of her death in 1942.

I'm of two minds about Kevin Sullivan and the direction in which he's taken our beloved Anne. The book fan in me shakes her head at the third movie and the idea of this prequel, but when I remember the joy and pleasure I got out of his first two outings, and then the Road to Avonlea series, I can't really find it in my heart to be too angry with him.

Besides, even if he had decided to take a stab at including material from the later books, he wouldn't be able to do it anyway, due to the legal issues with the Montgomery heirs.

Personally, I think that Kevin Sullivan has had a hell of a lot more to do with this generation's interest in Anne of Green Gables than a lot of people give him credit for. Do I like everything he's done with the characters in the last movie? No, but I don't have to watch it if I don't want to. I can just sit back and cuddle up with Anne and Anne, The Sequel, and then read the rest of the books and just use my imagination to picture what they might look like on screen.

And just to be fair, there are a hell of a lot other people than Kevin Sullivan who continue to make a lot of money off the Montgomery books.

[–] Mart-Short 17 years ago

Well said! I'm one of those that want them to keep rollin' out the movies!

[–] Renny_Sue 16 years ago

I do think he enabled a lot of my generation to fall in love with Anne. The problem (for him) is that most people who love the movies he made, went on to read the books. And fell in love with them. So after making two brillant movies, to then go and try and change Anne's history? Most (rightly) see this as a travesty.

Honestly, I felt ill just watching the trailer. Anne lied about her childhood? Gilbert killed in WW2? Her father not being dead? He can't even have her kids the same? He's changed all these things for NO good reason. I won't be watching this. I somewhat enjoyed the 3rd movie, but felt Rilla of Ingleside would have been better. Now? I'll just pretend the last two never happened.

[–] meca-2 17 years ago

I can't believe what a piece or crap I just saw. Really don't know if I want to see the movie, since the trailer was so awful. So wrong, everything so wrong. :(
I've been a fan of the Anne books, tv-series and also all Sullivan's productions, but this has gone too far! "As a child I use to make up stories", Anne not being an orphan?! WTF?!
Please, if you are a fan of Anne, don't pay to see that movie. A little bit of boycotting might do good for the company that destroys the story so bad. After all these years of making such a beautiful stories. I'm so disappointed.

[–] puddiphutt 16 years ago

I just watched the trailer too. I can accept that Sullivan may have made up stories about Anne's early life - after all, she doesn't expand too much on her life with the Thomas' and the Hammonds in the books - but I can't accept an Anne with a personality that is so far removed from not only the books but also the first two movies that Sullivan himself made. Anne was a child with a fanastic imagination but she was never dishonest. She never lied about the horrors of her childhood and even tried to put a positive spin on things.

I won't be adding this to my collection of 2 Anne movies, that's for sure.

Eagles may soar in the clouds, but weasels never get sucked into jet engines.

[–] Princess_Padme_Danbarrie 16 years ago

The new movie is a pure joke, I watched it in horror! The only good thing about that movie was that lovely young girl who played Anne, if they ever decided to re do the movies (actually following all the book) she would be perfect.

But honestly any true book fan and Fan of Lucy Maud Montgomery will know that Anne was always an Orphan.

You want to read a good book about Anne's beginning before Green Gables, read the book "Before Green Gables". The lovely writer got permission from the family to review the notes and journals L.M. wrote while she wront Anne of Green Gables. The Book even has a forenote from the estate of L.M. and may I add after reading it i would swear to the heavens that L.M.'s spirit was with this author when she wrote the book.

Avoid this movie at all costs and stick to the firt two, and maybe the third (hey it has Megan Follows and Jonthan Crombie*loL*)

Anakin you are breaking my heart...

[–] dabrauer 16 years ago

Seriously, I almost can't believe that anyone who's a fan of the books could enjoy seeing Anne's original character fade in this movie or The Continuing Story. My opinion is, if Kevin Sullivan really wants to make a movie that's totally apart from the original writings, than why doesn't he just call it (and the characters) something else? The Continuing Story would have been interesting apart from the fact that it totally desecrated my favorite books! I'm an extreme reader, so that's about the worst thing someone can do to me.

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[–] carmenjones411 16 years ago

I saw the trailer and the young girl is disgusting, she tries to hard to ape Megan Follows brilliant performace- I will NOT be watching!

[–] jarth-2 16 years ago

Totally agree. The kid who plays Anne is horrible.