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In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss Godzilla!

For this episode, we watched:

• Godzilla (Gojira), 1954. The original. Directed by Ishirō Honda, produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka, and starring Akira Takarada, Momoko Kōchi, Akihiko Hirata, and Takashi Shimura. Watch it on Amazon.
• Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, 1956. The "original." Directed by Ishirō Honda and Terry Morse, and starring Raymond Burr. Watch it on Amazon.
• Godzilla, 1998. The modern "classic." Directed by Roland Emmerich, written by Emmerich and Dean Devlin, and starring Matthew Broderick, Maria Pitillo, Hank Azaria, and Jean Reno. Watch it on iTunes and Amazon.
• Godzilla, 2014. The newer American one. Directed by Gareth Edwards, and starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Elizabeth Olsen, Sally Hawkins, and Bryan Cranston. Watch it on iTunes and Amazon.
• Shin Godzilla, 2016. The Japanese reboot. Directed by Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi, and starring Hiroki Hasegawa, Yutaka Takenouchi, Satomi Ishihara, and literally every other actor in Japan. Watch it on iTunes and Amazon.

Footnotes:

• Adapt or Perish Episode 11. The Fault in Our Stars
• Takashi Shimura and Seven Samurai
• The History and Evolution of Godzilla by YouTuber Cynical Justin
• Mothra, Rodan, and King Ghidorah
• Independence Day and Stargate
• "Museum," the original teaser trailer for Godzilla (1998)
• Godzilla and Taco Bell
• Production designer Patrick Tatopoulos
• The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid and Kung Pow! Enter the Fist

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In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain!

For this episode, we read and watched:

• Annie Proulx's original short story, first published in the New Yorker on October 13, 1997, an expanded version of which was published in Close Range: Wyoming Stories. Read Close Range on iBooks or Amazon.
• Brokeback Mountain, the 2005 movie directed by Ang Lee, written by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, and starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal. Watch it on iTunes or Amazon.

Footnotes:

• limn, verb, to represent in drawing or painting; to portray in words; describe
• Matthew Shepard
• Our own episode on The Birdcage
• Ang Lee, director of The Wedding Banquet, Sense and Sensibility, Hulk, and Brokeback Mountain
• "Gene Shalit's Brokeback Mountain review angers gay rights group" from The Advocate
• "No Man's Land" from The New Republic
• "Return to the Range" from The Wall Street Journal
• Brokeback Mountain, the 2014 opera by composer Charles Wuorinen, with libretto by Annie Proulx

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In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss Charles Portis' True Grit!

For this episode, we read, watched, and discussed:

• Charles Portis' original 1968 novel. Read it on Amazon or iBooks.
• The 1969 John Wayne movie of the same name, directed by Henry Hathaway, starring John Wayne, produced by Hal B. Wallis, written by Marguerite Roberts, and starring John Wayne, Kim Darby, Glen Campbell, Robert Duvall, and John Wayne. Watch it on iTunes or Amazon.
• The 2010 movie adaptation, written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, and starring Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld, Matt Damon, and Josh Brolin. Watch it on iTunes or Amazon.

Footnotes:

• Episode 11 of Adapt or Perish, The Fault in Our Stars
• r/menwritingwomen
• The Last of Us and Children of Men
• "True Grit" written by Don Black and Elmer Bernstein, performed by Glen Campbell
• Arielle's thinking of Maureen McGovern in The Poseidon Adventure, not Karen Carpenter
• When Jeremy said "John Wayne is just John Wayne," and thought he was quoting The Birdcage, he was thinking of a line from Get Shorty. It's important to him that you know that.
• Rooster Cogburn, 1975, starring John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn
• Cinematographer Roger Deakins
• Actor Elizabeth Marvel
• Theater director Ivo van Hove
• Coen regular Peter Stormare
• Joel & Ethan Coen - Shot/Reverse Shot from the YouTube channel Every Frame a Painting

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In this practically perfect episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss P.L. Travers' Mary Poppins!

For this episode, we read and watched:

• P.L. Travers' original novel, published in 1934, the first in the Mary Poppins series which ran until 1988. Read it on iBooks or Amazon.
• Walt Disney's Mary Poppins, 1964, directed by Robert Stevenson, written by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, with music by Richard and Robert Sherman. Starring Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, and David Tomlinson. Watch it on iTunes or Amazon.
• Saving Mr. Banks, 2013, directed by John Lee Hancock, written by Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith, and starring Emma Thompson as P.L. Travers and Tom Hanks as Walt Disney. Watch it on iTunes or Amazon.
• Mary Poppins Returns, 2018, directed by Rob Marshall, written by David Magee, music by Marc Shaiman, and starring Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw, and Emily Mortimer. Pre-order it on iTunes and Amazon.

Footnotes:

• Mr. Snuffleupagus and "The Child Psychology of Sesame Street"
• Our own episode on A Wrinkle in Time
• Also, our very own episode on Roald Dahl and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• Mr. Rogers reads the lyrics to "What Do You Do With The Mad That You Feel?" for the United States Senate Subcommittee on Communications in 1969
• The Pleiades and Neil Gaiman's Stardust
• Bedknobs and Broomsticks
• "Dick Van Dyke: 'Someone should have told me to work on my cockney accent'" from The Guardian
• Dick Van Dyke's 90th Birthday Flash Mob + Sing-A-Long
• Marni Nixon (not to be confused with Marti Noxon)

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In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss Airplane!

You can also hear us on the Sherlock Holmes-themed podcast I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere to discuss our own Sherlock Holmes episodes. We appeared on Episode 160: "Adapting Sherlock Holmes," and we hope you give their show a listen!

For this episode, we watched and discussed:

• Airplane!, the 1980 spoof, written and directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker, and starring Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen, Peter Graves, Lloyd Bridges, and Robert Stack. Watch it on iTunes and Amazon.
• Zero Hour!, 1957, directed by Hall Bartlett, written by Arthur Hailey, and starring Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, and Sterling Hayden. Watch it on iTunes.
• Airport 1975, 1974, directed by Jack Smight, written by Don Ingalls, and starring Karen Black, Charlton Heston, and George Kennedy. Watch it on iTunes and Amazon.

Footnotes:

• AFI's 100 Years…100 Laughs
• The Airport movie series: Airport, Airport 1975, Airport '77, and The Concorde…Airport '79
• Mel Brooks' The Producers (1967)
• Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
• The Kentucky Fried Movie (and Robot Chicken)
• The combined filmography of Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker
• Leslie Nielsen's screen test for Ben-Hur
• Side-by-side comparison: Zero Hour! (1957) Vs Airplane! (1980)
• CDC: Say No to Raw Dough!
• The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
• Helen Reddy, and our episode on Pete's Dragon

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In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet!

For this episode, we watched and discussed:

• Romeo and Juliet (1936), directed by George Cukor, and starring Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer, with John Barrymore and Basil Rathbone. Watch on iTunes.
• Romeo and Juliet (1968), directed by Franco Zeffirelli, and starring Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey, with Michael York and Robert Stephens. Watch on iTunes and Amazon.
• BBC Television Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet (1978), the first episode of BBC Television Shakespeare, which ran from 1978 to 1985, and attempted to film and televise the complete works of Shakespeare. This episode was directed by Alvin Rakoff, and starred Patrick Ryecart and Rebecca Saire, with Alan Rickman and John Gielgud.
• Romeo + Juliet (1996), directed by Baz Luhrmann, and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes, with John Leguizamo and Pete Postlethwaite. Watch on iTunes and Amazon.
• Romeo & Juliet (2013), directed by Carlo Carlei, adapted by Julian Fellowes, starring Douglas Booth and Hailee Steinfeld, with Stellan Skarsgård and Paul Giamatti. Watch on iTunes and Amazon.

Footnotes:

• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), written by Adam Long, Daniel Singer, and Jess Winfield. Watch it on Amazon. Seriously, watch it.
• Reynard the Fox
• Our episodes on The Princess Bride and Sherlock Holmes
• ADR or automated dialogue replacement

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In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss C.S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe!

For this episode, we read and watched:

• C.S. Lewis' original novel, part two of The Chronicles of Narnia. Read on iBooks or Amazon.
• The 1979 animated TV movie, directed by Bill Melendez.
• The 1988 BBC series, produced as part of a larger Chronicles of Narnia series, also including Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and The Silver Chair.
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, the 2005 feature film, written and directed by Andrew Adamson, and starring William Moseley, Anna Popplewell, Skandar Keynes, Georgie Henley, Tilda Swinton, James McAvoy, Jim Broadbent, and Liam Neeson. Watch on iTunes or Amazon.

Footnotes:

• Here's a bunch of kids killing it in a performance of "Murder Today" from the musical Narnia.
• Bedknobs and Broomsticks
• Bill Melendez's television work on Peanuts, including A Charlie Brown Christmas.

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In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss Tom Clancy's The Hunt for Red October! Merry Christmas, everyone!

For this episode, we read and watched:

• Tom Clancy's original novel, first published in 1984. Read on iBooks and Amazon.
• The 1990 theatrical adaptation, directed by John McTiernan, written by Larry Ferguson, and starring Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, James Earl Jones, Scott Glenn, Sam Neill, and Courtney B. Vance. Watch on iTunes and Amazon.

Footnotes:

• The Naval Institute Press
• Judgment at Nuremberg
• The many faces of Jack Ryan
• Senator Fred Dalton Thompson of Tennessee (and Law & Order)
• John McTiernan's relationship with the law
• Ghost Recon Wildlands: The Red Dot trailer, directed by John McTiernan
• Jeffrey Jones' legal troubles

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In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are and Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr. Fox!

For this episode, we read and watched:

• Maurice Sendak's original picture book, first published in 1963. Buy on Amazon.
• Spike Jonze's 2009 live-action feature adaptation. Written by Jonze and Dave Eggers, and starring Max Records, Catherine Keener, Lauren Ambrose, Chris Cooper, James Gandolfini, Catherine O'Hara, and Forest Whitaker. Watch on iTunes or Amazon.
• Roald Dahl's original book, first published in 1970. Read on Amazon or iBooks.
• Wes Anderson's 2009 stop-motion feature adaptation. Written by Anderson and Noah Baumbach, and starring George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, and Michael Gambon. Watch on iTunes or Amazon.

Footnotes:

• Adapt or Perish Episode 22: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• The first trailer for Where the Wild Things Are
• Oskar and the Eight Blessings, written by Richard Simon and Tanya Simon, illustrated by Mark Siegel.
• Glen Keane Live Animates The Little Mermaid's Ariel
• Where The Wild Things Are - Early DISNEY CG Animation Test
• "Vern's WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE review 'monsterpiece'!!!!"
• A look at the recording of the dialogue in Where the Wild Things Are and Fantastic Mr. Fox
• Yes, Roald Dahl was a bigot.

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In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes! This is the second of three episodes that we're releasing on the character. We covered The Hound of the Baskervilles here.

For this episode, we watched 15 different actors portray the world's greatest detective. Here they are in chronological order, with the piece or pieces that we watched:

• Arthur Wontner. He played Holmes in five movies between 1931 and 1937. We watched him in The Sleeping Cardinal (or Sherlock Holmes' Fatal Hour (1931).
• Basil Rathbone. He starred as Holmes in 14 movies between 1939 and 1946. We watched him in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939).
• Peter Cushing. He starred in movies and television as Holmes from 1959 to 1984. We watched him in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) and multiple episodes of Sherlock Holmes (1968).
• John Neville. He played Holmes once in A Study in Terror (1965), going up against Jack the Ripper.
• Robert Stephens. He starred in Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970).
• Nicol Williamson. He played Holmes in the film adaptation of Nicholas Meyer's The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976), with Robert Duvall as Watson and Alan Arkin as Sigmund Freud.
• Christopher Plummer. He played Holmes in Murder by Decree (1979) alongside James Mason as Watson. This was a Jack the Ripper story, too.
• Tom Baker. He played Holmes in the serialized BBC production of The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982).
• Ian Richardson. He played Holmes in two TV movies, both in 1983: The Sign of Four and The Hound of the Baskervilles.
• Peter O'Toole. He provided the voice for Holmes in three animated movies in 1983. We watched Sherlock Holmes and a Study in Scarlet.
• Jeremy Brett. He played the character in 41 episodes of Sherlock Holmes for Granada Television between 1984 and 1994. This show has been watched multiple times by our hosts.
• Charlton Heston. He played Holmes on stage (1980) and TV (1991) in The Crucifer of Blood.
• James D'Arcy. He played Holmes once in the TV movie Sherlock: Case of Evil in 2002.
• Rupert Everett. He starred as Holmes in the BBC One TV movie Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking in 2004.
• Robert Downey Jr. He starred with Jude Law as Watson in both Sherlock Holmes (2009) and its sequel, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011).

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