Adaptation Podcast

Adaptation Podcast

The podcast for in-depth discussion on film adaptations and the original material they're based on.

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October 6, 2024 68 mins

The Adaptation team discusses Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo, the final installment in the Grisha trilogy.

Question of the Week: How much do any of these characters (but particularly Alina) owe to Ravka? How much are they required to sacrifice for the people and/or Grisha?

 

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The team discusses Matilda: The Musical (2022).

Question of the Week:  How do you feel about the addition of the backstory with the escapologist and the acrobat?

Breaking the (Autistic) Code: Matilda (1996) (Vocal Media)

A Problem Like Matilda (The New Yorker)

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July 29, 2024 96 mins

Watch Matilda (1996) with us!

Question of the Week: What is your favorite thing about this version and what would you hope they keep in the musical?

 

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The team discusses Matilda by Roald Dahl, in all it's nostalgia and darkness.

Question of the Week:  Do you agree with Miss Honey’s interpretation of Matilda's powers and why she no longer has them at the end?

 

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Jenn and Kendyl discuss Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022).

Question of the Week: What do you think the next Black Panther movie will look like? 

 

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Discussing the film The School for Good and Evil (2022) with series fans and non-readers.

Question of the Week: Do you think that students have been sorted incorrectly because the school master was in charge?

 

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Adaptation discusses the pros and cons of the film Catherine, Called Birdy (2022).

Question of the Week: Did you find the ending satisfying? Would you change anything?

 

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Digging into good and evil stereotypes with The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani.

Question of the Week: What class would you be most excited to take (in either school)?

 

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A packed episode to discuss Hocus Pocus 2 (2022)!

Question of the Week: What should the name of the Billy Butcherson movie be?

 

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Jess, Jenn, and Kedyl discuss the middle grade novel Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman.

Question of the Week: Did the journal make Birdie less childish/more learned?

 

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The team talks Persuasion (2022) and finds that they didn't all have negative reactions. 

Question of the Week: If we were to make a movie in this tone, time period, and style, what story should be told this way?

 

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The Adaptation team discusses Thor: Love and Thunder (2022).

Question of the Week: What are the parameters of Eternity?

 

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The team talks about Jane Austen's Persuasion.

Question of the Week: What’s your favorite interpretation of an Austen heroine? Who has yet to be done well?

 

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Jenn, Dorin, and Kendyl discuss Lightyear (2022).

Question of the Week: Knowing Buzz from Toy Story, what was one thing that you expected to see? How did it meet your expectations?

 

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Jenn, Dorin, and Kendyl talk Jurassic World Dominion (2022).

Question of the Week: What do you think the core of this movie should have been about? 

 

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Adaptation talks Sneakerella (2022).

Question of the Week: Is Cinderella too cringe to adapt in the modern-age? What elements just can't translate anymore? Are there an elements that can be modernized?

 

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Jenn, Dorin, and Kendyl talk Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022).

Question of the Week: What do you think happened in the 838? Are we mid-hex? Where is Vision? 

 

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Jess, Jenn, and Kendyl talk about Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo and complain about Mal. 

Question of the Week: What came first for Nikolai: the desire for the throne or realizing his family was incompetent?

 

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Jess, Jenn, and Kendyl talk about season one of One of Us Is Lying (2021-2022).

Question of the Week: If you didn't know it was Jake, do you think you'd be able to figure it out with the information the show gives? 

 

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