China doll
She wasn't mentioned at all in the wizard of oz. does she only appear in this movie? Or is she mentioned in the books?
Look at my thread from today.
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As soon as I saw China Girl I thought, Christina Applegate (in Friends). I thought China Girl was being voiced by her until I saw the credits.
You cannot alter the bores of physics.
The Dainty China Country and its inhabitants are included in the book "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" but not in the MGM movie
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I have to say that when I saw her in that opening scene that that was just about the most heart wrenching thing I had ever seen in any film.
It's an old pattern. Someone does a film or play of a work of fiction and when that version becomes popular people take it as definitive. Happened with Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, and other stories.
Laura Ess
Van Helsing
The Walking Dead
The Stand
-A lot of Stephen King stuff, actually.
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Yeah - Van Helsing of course is taken/ripped from Dracula.
The Walking Dead and The Stand though are straight adaptations of the original source material. They don't really "reinvent" or "replace" the story the same way that Van Helsing does. With Sherlock Holmes and Dracula, they were both made into simplified plays first, and the film versions were taken from those rather than directly from the source material. The meerschaum pipe and deerstalker hat both come from the play. NOT from the original source material. Likewise with the play Dracula, the title character became susceptible to direct sunlight. That was not the case in the original novel. Dracula appears in daylight in that, albeit in a weakened state. That idea - that sunlight would kill a vampire, came from Nosferatu, which was a "bootleg" version of the Dracula story.
Very much the same with Zombies in general. If you look at filmes from the 30s and 40s, Zombies are only reanimated dead, needing someone to reanimate them. Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968) was the film that popularised the ideas that Zombies could spontaneously be reanimated, and wanted to eat the living. It wasn't until The Return of the Living Dead (1985) that some of them started to eat brains.
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Laura Ess
Uhh actually there's a ton of differences in The Walking Dead comics and the TV series. Here's an article with some of the differences:
http://www.nerdimports.com/site/comics-vs-television-the-walking-dead-round-one/
Now I guess some things might not be a big deal to you. The Lori and the baby being killed at Woodbury I guess isn't a big deal since Lori dies on the show anyway and the baby is just a baby. Dale and Andrea find the prison and I guess that's not a big deal since on the show someone finds a prison.
But then you've got Rick and Andrea hooking up together, Rick having one hand.
The fact that Daryl never existed in the comics seems pretty huge to me.
You're missing the point. Lori wasn't INVENTED for the TV series. Other characters, like Merle, were. Likewise the China Girl was from the original source material. The differences are a result of adaptation, and I like these series of videos,starting with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y24EbuEXBFw to show those.
But this is getting away from OZ, don't you think?
Laura Ess
I was just pointing out that the following were wrong:
The Walking Dead and The Stand though are straight adaptations of the original source material.
As you said, Lori was in both however she was killed in two different ways/times. Hershel and his group don't stay on the farm while Dale and Rick head to the prison. Carol doesn't dump Tyrese when she walks in on Michonne going down on him.
To say that is a straight adapation would be to change the meaning of the word. :) share
But has it changed the overall narrative or setting, or rationale? Has it changed the nature of the walking dead? The fact that one or two characters have been added, or the way or time in which they die hasn't done that.
THe Geat and Powerful on the other hand, like Lynch's version of Dune, has done that.
Laura Ess