All the series and movies based on books They are always in fashion and they nourish each other: a good part of the fiction on television and film is made of them and they make them known to a wider audience than readers. They may undergo more or less important changes with respect to their literary originals, but they usually maintain their essence. These are four proposals that can now be seen on different television consumption platforms or live on the Internet. Children's and youth classics and adaptations of recent titles and more classics revisited: Malory Towers, Anne of Green Gables, The Ball of the Fools, and The Fall of the House of Usher.
Series and movies — Selection
Malory Towers
We begin the review of these series and films with this one from the BBC, with four seasons, which also adapts the classic book saga that he signed Enid blyton between 1946 and 1951. It consists of six books, each written in one year, and surely more than one reader from the 70s and 80s has read them. Tells the adventures of the students of a female boarding school, Malory Towers, which, as a result of the war, has been relocated to the top of the cliffs on the Cornish coast.
It is an idyllic place, with a building with four towers that house the bedrooms and classes. It comes to the North Darrell rivers, a 12-year-old girl with many dreams of adventure and independence, but who has had a hard time leaving her old school and doesn't know what she will find at the new one. Like her, there are many more girls who will live many adventures and intrigues and they will become friends (or enemies) between midnight parties with gingerbread cakes, games of lacrosse, picnics and a mysterious ghost story.
can be seen in Movistar +, on his channel En familia.
Anne of Green Gables
Among the most remembered series and films is this youth title that has had multiple adaptations and is a classic of canadian literature who signed Lucy Montgomery in 1908. The story of Anne Shirley, the orphan girl, adopted by the very different brothers Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, who arrives at his farm, Tejas Verdes, near the small town of Avonlea. Anne will revolutionize everyone with her mischief, imagination and friendliness. She had a very popular television series that premiered in 1985. The success led to two more: Anne of Green Gables: The Continuation (1987) and Anne of Green Gables: The Story Continues (2000)
You can now watch it on Netflix Anne with an E, from 2017, and which has 3 seasons. And there is another adaptation in cartoon Japanese, of course, which can be seen in YouTube.
The dance of the crazy
One of the most recent literary series and films is this title. It has been two long years since the novel written by the French author was published Victory More, which debuted in literature in the best way, with a great reception from critics and readers and many awards.
Written in the present and set in the Paris of 1885, the story has very charismatic female characters and is a portrait of the society of that time regarding women's mental problems (some supposed) and their treatment. The protagonists are Eugenie, a young woman from a good family who discovers that she has the special power to see the dead. But when they discover her secret, they take her to La Salpetriere, a clinic run by the famous neurology pioneer Jean-Martin Charcot, in which women diagnosed with hysteria, madness, epilepsy and other illnesses are admitted.
His destiny is intertwined with that of Geneviève, the hospital director whose life is passing her by. But their meeting will change their future as they prepare for the Baile de las Locas, a social event organized annually by the hospital.
can be seen in Amazon Prime Video.
The Fall of the House of Usher
We finish this selection of series and films adapted from literature with a new and umpteenth twist on a classic among classics like this one from Edgar Allan Poe, which was published in 1839. It is a miniseries with a distribution of bells, with Bruce Greenwood, Carla Gugino and Mark Hamill among others. It joins the feature films (two silent ones, a more or less faithful version by Roger Corman, with Vincent Price, in 1960 and a more modern update in 2006) that have been made about this specific title.
In this series we find that Roderick and Madeline Usher are two ruthless brothers that have turned the Fortunato Pharmaceuticals company into an emporium synonymous with wealth, privilege and power. But the secrets of the past will begin to be discovered when the heirs of the dynasty They begin to die at the hands of a mysterious woman that the brothers met in their youth.
It's in Netflix since October.