Literary revisionism

[d000hg]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64702224

Dahl's estate and publisher said works including The BFG and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory had been updated to be more suitable for modern audiences.

Filed under #TheWorldsGoneMad, #WokeMadness, yada yada. What utter bunkum.
Parents who read and enjoyed these books as children, without being morally damaged by them, are deciding they are not appropriate for their own kids (nobody asks the kids of course).

What next, taking the naughty words out of Tom Sawyer?

[TheDude]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64702224



Filed under #TheWorldsGoneMad, #WokeMadness, yada yada. What utter bunkum.
Parents who red and enjoyed these books as children, without being morally damaged by them, are deciding they are not appropriate for their own kids (nobody asks the kids of course).

My Nan used to like Jim Davidson.

[vetran]

Roald Dhal was always fairly controversial, he punished the kids sins in Charlie and the chocolate factory. Matilda was a bit unpleasant as well.

But what will they do with 1984 and Macbeth?

First kill all the Guardianistas?

[Uncle Albert]

If you're interested, hers's a list of the changes: https://imgur.io/a/vqM7wFx

Imagine not being able to refer to anyone as fat, ugly and stupid? I'd never be able to write about any of the staff at MyCo Ltd's clients.

[cojak]

Roald Dhal was always fairly controversial, he punished the kids sins in Charlie and the chocolate factory. Matilda was a bit unpleasant as well.

But what will they do with 1984 and Macbeth?

First kill all the Guardianistas?

This sounds more like Netflix who bought the rights. Not sure why Puffin thought that this would be a good idea.

[vetran]

This sounds more like Netflix who bought the rights. Not sure why Puffin thought that this would be a good idea.

Netflix was around for the Gene Wilder version?

https://fairytalesfantasy.umwblogs.o...olate-factory/

By giving the example of these children and their lessons as being the deadly sins, it shows children that these characteristics are not acceptable. It tells children that if they have these characteristics and persist with them they will be punished like Augustus, Violet, Veruca, and Mike. Dahl also offers Charlie as an example of how to act.

Matilda in the DeVito version glued his hat on and dyed her mothers hair for starters. The cake eating scene is fat shaming.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_(1996_film)

[cojak]

Dahl hated the Gene Wilder version. I’ve never read the book so I don’t know one way or the other.

[vetran]

Dahl hated the Gene Wilder version. I’ve never read the book so I don’t know one way or the other.

from very tired memory its not a million miles away from the film adaptions. Its a morality tale where bad children get their terrifying and somewhat harsh by modern standards comeuppance and a great deal of sneering goes on.

https://www.diffen.com/difference/Ch...-Book-vs-Movie

aTw may know more about certain children

Veruca attempts to get a squirrel after Wonka refuses to sell one to her father. The squirrels reject her as a "bad nut" and throw her down the garbage chute.

[eek]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64702224



Filed under #TheWorldsGoneMad, #WokeMadness, yada yada. What utter bunkum.
Parents who read and enjoyed these books as children, without being morally damaged by them, are deciding they are not appropriate for their own kids (nobody asks the kids of course).

What next, taking the naughty words out of Tom Sawyer?

Does Tom Sawyer sell in the same numbers it did when it was first released - hint it doesn't because the world moved on and it seems old fashioned.

The estate of Roald Dahl (for which read Netflix having paid $x00,000,000 for exclusive rights) want to rewrite the books and have ever right to do so.

And Roald Dahl did the same - his editor hated the original version of Matilda so he re-wrote her to not torture her parents.

[SueEllen]

Matilda in the DeVito version glued his hat on and dyed her mothers hair for starters. The cake eating scene is fat shaming.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_(1996_film)

The same scenes are in Maltida The Musical, that is still in cinemas.

The cake eating scene isn't fat shaming as the kid stands up to the head teacher, who proves she is inconsistent, unfair and ruthless in her approach.