![]() ![]() It has also inspired some pretty good stabs at literary sequels: Bjorn Larsson's Long John Silver and the recent: Silver: Return to Treasure Island by Sir Andrew Motion. Treasure Island's theme has been adapted several times for the screen ranging from the fairly true 1950s film to muppet fantasy. I suppose I could be curmudgeonly and slam this production as not being true to the book but I think that to do this would be an injustice. ![]() ![]() Ga naar onze Privacyverklaring voor meer informatie over hoe en voor welke doeleinden Amazon persoonsgegevens gebruikt (zoals de bestelgeschiedenis van Amazon Store). Je kunt je keuzes op elk moment wijzigen door naar Cookievoorkeuren te gaan, zoals beschreven in de Cookieverklaring. Klik op 'Cookies aanpassen' om deze cookies te weigeren, meer gedetailleerde keuzes te maken of voor meer informatie. Derde partijen gebruiken cookies om persoonlijke advertenties weer te geven en te meten, doelgroepinzichten te genereren en producten te ontwikkelen en te verbeteren. Dit omvat het gebruik van cookies van eerste en derde partijen die standaard apparaatgegevens, zoals een unieke ID, opslaan of openen. We gebruiken deze cookies ook om te begrijpen hoe klanten onze diensten gebruiken (bijvoorbeeld door websitebezoeken te meten), zodat we verbeteringen kunnen aanbrengen.Īls je ermee akkoord gaat, gebruiken we ook cookies om je winkelervaring in de Amazon Stores te verbeteren, zoals beschreven in onze Cookieverklaring. This reference has been removed.We gebruiken cookies en vergelijkbare tools die nodig zijn zodat je aankopen kan doen, en om je winkelervaringen te verbeteren en om onze diensten te leveren, zoals beschreven in onze Cookieverklaring. In the original, Abigail Thaw was miscredited in the role of the soprano. This article was amended on 3 January 2012. And then she dunnerself too, after singing her aria that works, with the whole Madame Butterfly thing going on. Whodunnit then? Ah, the soprano herself, driven by jealousy and passion. And there are lots of nice little nods to the future – the car, the beer, the women, the music. But Shaun Evans is beguiling in the title role – certainly he has more presence and charisma than Kevin Whately. The story is a bit loopy – orgies involving schoolgirls and high-ranking politicians, a Pygmalion-style bet, sisters who turn out to be mothers, suicides that turn out to be murders, all bathed in Puccini. Post-Morse has been pretty much bled dry with Lewis, so now we're going back to before, and a young detective on his first posting in Oxford in the mid-60s. The prequel is the new sequel, have you noticed? There have been loads recently – for Only Fools and Horses, All Creatures Great and Small, and … well, loads of other things. ![]() Robert Louis Stevenson, Captain Flint, Davy Jones, will be turning in their graves/lockers. They've changed it, not just unnecessarily but unquestionably for the worse, and that's a travesty. Not just a couple of Hollywood stars then, but a sugary soppy Hollywood ending too. In the book, he escapes, with a sack of coins, worth three or four hundred guineas – of course he does, he's a frigging pirate. They're saying: yeah, so it's what's driven us across the Atlantic, driven us to kill and to risk being killed, for page after page (and for nearly four hours of television), and suddenly we're not interested because, you know what, it's more bother than it's worth, and suddenly we're all better, non-materialistic people … No, I'm sorry, that's ridiculous. And, apart from Squire Trelawney, who goes down with it, the others – including Silver – let him do it. But then, at the end, Jim suddenly has a moral epiphany, realises that treasure isn't such a good thing after all, and throws it all over the side of the Hispaniola. Apart from the clunky cutting from the Caribbean to what Jim's mum and Mrs Silver are up to back in England, this is pretty faithful to the original. It's not as if this is a totally new and original take on RLS, such as, say, Steven Moffat on Sir ACD (though that's an idea, Treasure Island but with modern Somali pirates, I like that). But what they've done to the end really does. No, of course the colour of the parrot doesn't really matter. Bad casting – it's all about the look and the name over how suited to the part they are. And that could well be because scarlet macaws aren't known for mimicry or their ability to talk. And the macaw? It's hard to say – he doesn't say anything, not even "pieces of eight". Wood as Ben Gunn? Too hobbity for a rough sailor. I'm not sure about Izzard as LJS – he's very watchable but simply too nice. ![]()
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