Adapt or Perish

In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we wax on, we wax off, and we get into the ring with The Karate Kid!

For this episode, we watched:

• The original movie from 1984, directed by John G. Avildsen, written by Robert Mark Kamen, and starring Ralph Macchio, Noriyuki "Pat" Morita, Elisabeth Shue, and William Zabka. Watch it on iTunes or Amazon.
• The 2010 remake, directed by Harald Zwart, written by Christopher Murphey, and starring Jaden Smith, Jackie Chan, and Taraji P. Henson. Watch it on iTunes or Amazon.

Footnotes:

• The Karate Kid series: The Karate Kid Part II (1986), The Karate Kid Part III (1989), and The Next Karate Kid (1994)
• My Cousin Vinny
• "Jackie Chan: How to Do Action Comedy" from Every Frame a Painting

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In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss Howards End, E.M. Forster's classic tale of class relations in turn of the century Britain.

For this episode, we read and watched:

• E.M. Forster's original 1910 novel. Read it on iBooks or Amazon.
• The 1992 movie, directed by James Ivory, produced by Ismail Merchant, written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, and starring Emma Thompson, Anthony Hopkins, Vanessa Redgrave, and Helena Bonham Carter. Watch it on iTunes or Amazon.
• The 2017 miniseries, directed by Hettie MacDonald, written by Kenneth Lonergan, and starring Hayley Atwell, Matthew Macfadyen, Philippa Coulthard, Tracey Ullman, and Julia Ormond. Watch it on iTunes or Amazon.

Footnotes:

• A Room with a View, A Passage to India, and Maurice
• "Common People" by Pulp
• James Ivory accepting the Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award for Call Me By Your Name
• James Ivory discusses Howards End at the Film Society of Lincoln Center
• "This Time Tomorrow" by The Kinks as used in Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited
• "Blink" from Series 3 of the BBC's Doctor Who reboot

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In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss the many incarnations of the classic tale of criminal ingenuity and intractable bureaucracy that is The Taking of Pelham One Two Three!

For this episode, we read and watched:

• The original 1973 thriller, written by Morton Freedgood under the name "John Godey." Read it on iBooks or Amazon.
• The classic 1974 movie, directed by Joseph Sargent, written by Peter Stone, and starring Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, and Héctor Elizondo. Watch it on iTunes or Amazon.
• The 1998 TV movie, directed by Félix Enríquez Alcalá, written by April Smith, and starring Edward James Olmos, Lorraine Bracco, Vincent D'Onofrio, Richard Schiff, and Donnie Wahlberg. There's no real way to watch it other than getting an old DVD, but here's a clip on YouTube.
• The 2009 theatrical remake, directed by Tony Scott, written by Brian Helgeland, and starring Denzel Washington, John Travolta, John Turturro, James Gandolfini, and Luis Guzmán. Watch it on iTunes or Amazon.

Footnotes:

• The Adapt or Perish trilogy of "Books written by white dudes in the 70s who know a whole lot about one thing," which includes The Godfather, Jaws, and now The Taking of Pelham One Two Three.
• The Wikipedia list of ethnic slurs
• r/menwritingwomen
• An example of David Shire's score for the 1974 The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
• Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs
• Michael Ordoña's take on the 2009 remake, from SFGate

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In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss the many (intoxicated) faces of Arthur!

For this episode, we watched:

• The 1981 original, written and directed by Steve Gordon, and starring Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli, and John Gielgud. Watch it on iTunes or Amazon.
• Sharaabi, the 1984 Bollywood remake, directed by Prakash Mehra and starring Amitabh Bachchan.
• The 2011 American remake, directed by Jason Winer, written by Peter Baynham, and starring Russell Brand, Helen Mirren, Jennifer Garner, and Greta Gerwig. Watch it on iTunes, Netflix, or Amazon.

Footnotes:

• "The New Wave of Nicecore: How the Dark Age of Donald Trump Is Inspiring Movies to Choose Kindness Over Conflict" from IndieWire
• Paddington and Paddington 2
• The Wikipedia page for Sharaabi

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In this very special Father's Day episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss Edward Streeter's Father of the Bride!

For this episode, we read and watched:

• Edward Streeter's original 1949 novel.
• Father of the Bride, the 1950 movie directed by Vincente Minnelli, written by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, and starring Spencer Tracy, Elizabeth Taylor, and Joan Bennett. Watch it on iTunes or Amazon.
• Father's Little Dividend, the 1951 sequel, directed by Minnelli, written by Goodrich and Hackett, and starring Tracy, Taylor, and Bennett. Watch it on Amazon.
• Father of the Bride, the 1991 remake, directed by Charles Shyer, written by Shyer and Nancy Meyers, and starring Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, Kimberly Williams, and Martin Short. Watch it on iTunes or Amazon.
• Father of the Bride Part II, the remake's 1995 sequel, also directed by Shyer, also also written by Shyer and Meyers, and also also also starring Martin, Keaton, Williams, and Short. Watch it on iTunes or Amazon.

Footnotes:

• Writers Erma Bombeck and Dave Barry
• The Harvard Lampoon
• Mr. Hobbs Take a Vacation (1962)
• Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, and Desk Set
• The Baby Boom theatrical trailer
• Every Single Word Spoken by a Person of Color in Every Single Movie Directed by Nancy Meyers
• The pregnancy and birth podcasts Baby Doctor Mamas and Masculine Birth Ritual

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In this, the conclusion of our first two-part episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre!

In part one, we covered the original novel, Robert Stevenson's 1943 movie, Delbert Mann's 1970 TV movie, Joan Craft's 1973 BBC miniseries, and Julian Amyes' 1983 BBC miniseries. In this episode, we'll discuss:

• The 1996 movie, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, written by Zeffirelli and Hugh Whitemore, and starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and William Hurt. Watch it on iTunes or Amazon.
• The 1997 TV movie, directed by Robert Young, written by Richard Hawley, Kay Mellor, and Peter Wright, and starring Samantha Morton and Ciarán Hinds. Watch it on iTunes or Amazon.
• The 2006 BBC miniseries, directed by Susanna White, written by Sandy Welch, and starring Ruth Wilson and Toby Stephens. Watch it on iTunes or Amazon.
• The 2011 movie, directed by Cary Fukunaga, written by Moira Buffini, and starring Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender. Watch it on iTunes or Amazon.

Footnotes:

• Franco Zeffirelli and our episode on Romeo and Juliet
• Cinematographer David Watkin
• Dame Joan Plowright and Laurence Olivier
• Billie Whitelaw and Samuel Beckett
• Literal supermodel Elle Macpherson
• Jean Rhys' 1966 novel Wide Sargasso Sea, which was adapted as a movie twice in 1993 and 2006
• Pam Ferris and Call the Midwife
• The Brit List and The Black List
• Cary Fukunaga and True Detective

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In this, part one of our first two-part episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre!

For these two episodes, we read Jane Eyre and watched eight screen adaptations. In this episode, we'll discuss:

• Charlotte Brontë's original novel, first published in 1847. Read it on Amazon or iBooks.
• The 1943 movie, directed by Robert Stevenson, written by Stevenson, John Houseman, and Aldous Huxley, and starring Joan Fontaine and Orson Welles. Watch it on iTunes or Amazon.
• The 1970 TV movie, directed by Delbert Mann, and starring Susannah York and George C. Scott. Watch it on YouTube.
• The 1973 BBC miniseries, directed by Joan Craft, written by Robin Chapman, and starring Sorcha Cusack and Michael Jayston.
• The 1983 BBC miniseries, directed by Julian Amyes, written by Alexander Baron, and starring Zelah Clarke and Timothy Dalton. Watch it on Amazon.
• In part two, we'll be covering Franco Zeffirelli's 1996 movie, Robert Young's 1997 TV movie, Susanna White's 2006 miniseries, and Cary Fukunaga's 2011 movie.

Footnotes:

• The Brontë family
• William Makepeace Thackeray
• Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, discussed here on Adapt or Perish
• George C. Scott and They Might Be Giants
• Susannah York's reaction shot

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In this very special Mother's Day episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss Mary Rodgers' mother-daughter body-swap classic, Freaky Friday!

For this episode, we read and watched:

• Mary Rodgers' original 1972 novel.
• The 1976 movie, directed by Gary Nelson, written by Rodgers, and starring Jodie Foster and Barbara Harris. Watch it on iTunes and Amazon.
• The 1995 TV movie, directed by Melanie Mayron, and starring Gaby Hoffman and Shelley Long. Watch it on YouTube.
• The 2003 movie, directed by Mark Waters, written by Heather Hach and Leslie Dixon, and starring Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis. Watch it on iTunes and Amazon.

Footnotes:

• Body swap appearances in media
• Vice Versa: A Lesson to Fathers by Thomas Anstey Guthrie
• The Freaky Friday musical, 2016, adapted into a TV movie for the Disney Channel in 2018
• Richard Rodgers (of Rodgers & Hammerstein) and Adam Guettel
• Once Upon a Mattress
• Taylor Negron
• Heather Hach and the Legally Blonde musical
• Rosalind Chao

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In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss the book of Exodus—the story of The Ten Commandments!

For this episode, we read and watched:

• The Book of Exodus. From the actual Bible. Available literally everywhere.
• The Ten Commandments, 1923, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Theodore Roberts. Watch it on iTunes and Amazon.
• The Ten Commandments, 1956, also directed by Cecil B. DeMille, and starring Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner. Watch it on iTunes and Amazon.
• The Prince of Egypt, 1998, directed by Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, and Simon Wells, and starring Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes, Sandra Bullock, Jeff Goldblum, and Michelle Pfeiffer. Watch it on iTunes and Amazon.
• The Ten Commandments, the 2006 miniseries, directed by Robert Dornhelm, starring Dougray Scott, Naveen Andrews, and Omar Sharif. Watch it on iTunes and Amazon.
• The Ten Commandments, 2007, directed by John Stronach and Bill Boyce, and starring Christian Slater, Alfred Molina, and Ben Kingsley. Watch it on YouTube.
• Exodus: Gods and Kings, 2014, directed by Ridley Scott, and starring Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton, John Turturro, and Ben Kingsley. Watch it on iTunes and Amazon.

Footnotes:

• "Go Down Moses"
• "Dayenu"
• The Tanakh, or Hebrew Bible
• Anne Baxter and All About Eve
• Age of Empires
• Roma and lead actor Yalitza Aparicio
• Stephen Schwartz, Godspell, and Wicked
• Brenda Chapman

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In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss every version of A Star is Born!

For this episode, we watched versions of A Star is Born from:

• 1937, directed by William A. Wellman, produced by David O. Selznick, written by Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker, and Alan Campbell, and starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March. Watch it on iTunes and Amazon.
• 1954, directed by George Cukor, produced by Sidney Luft, written by Moss Hart, and starring Judy Garland and James Mason. Watch it on iTunes and Amazon.
• 1976, directed by Frank Pierson, produced by Jon Peters, written by John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion, and starring Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson. Watch it on iTunes.
• 2018, directed by Bradley Cooper, written by Eric Roth, Cooper, and Will Fetters, and starring Cooper and Lady Gaga. Watch it on iTunes.

Footnotes:

• What Price Hollywood?, 1932, directed by George Cukor, produced by David O. Selznick, and starring Constance Bennett, Lowell Sherman, and Neil Hamilton.
• The Motion Picture Production Code, aka The Hays Code
• Gregory Ratoff and All About Eve
• Dorothy Parker
• Andy Devine and Disney's Robin Hood
• Joan Didion
• You Must Remember This: The Birth of Barbra Streisand's A Star is Born
• Jon Peters, American film producer and former hairdresser.
• Kevin Smith on his experience working with Jon Peters: Part One and Part Two.
• Kris Kristofferson, star of Tad and Blade, and songwriter of "Me and Bobby McGee."
• The video for Lady Gaga's "Telephone" ft. Beyoncé
• Jeff Bridges and Crazy Heart

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