{"id":1943,"date":"2011-11-09T11:08:28","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T01:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=1943"},"modified":"2015-08-12T18:20:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T07:20:20","slug":"the-borrowers-adaptations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2011\/11\/09\/the-borrowers-adaptations\/","title":{"rendered":"The Borrowers adaptations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VlMe7PavaRQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"233\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When I saw that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Borrowers\">Mary Norton&#8217;s <em>The Borrowers<\/em><\/a> had been turned into an animation, <em>The Secret World of Arietty<\/em>, my knee-jerk reaction was a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Hil121\/status\/130042115165126656\">blurted out tweet<\/a> (a twurt?):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Oh crap, The Borrowers have been Disney-d. Why can&#8217;t they make up their own damn stories?<\/p>\n<p>Or is it anime-d? Probably both.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then I promptly reread the first four books in the series straight through (for the first time in many years), \u00a0finishing last night with a satisfied sigh.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;ve had to give myself a talking-to about the adaptation. It turns out that there are numerous previous film adaptations, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-13841294\">new BBC<\/a> one coming out this Christmas. If I take a step back from the strong imprint the book made on me as a child, I can see that the things that made me love it also make it an\u00a0irresistibly rich story for others to reinterpret.\u00a0And while for me the drawings by Diana Stanley<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/borrowers_diana_stanely.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1945\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2011\/11\/09\/the-borrowers-adaptations\/borrowers_diana_stanely\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/borrowers_diana_stanely.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"395,210\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon MP610 series&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"borrowers_diana_stanely\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/borrowers_diana_stanely.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1945\" title=\"borrowers_diana_stanely\" src=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/borrowers_diana_stanely.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"395\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/borrowers_diana_stanely.jpg 395w, https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/borrowers_diana_stanely-300x159.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 395px) 100vw, 395px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>are inextricably part of how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/joey7\/2523865805\/in\/photostream\/\">I imagine<\/a> and experience the story of Pod, Homily and Arietty, it seems Americans have an equally strong association and love of the illustrations done by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/collectingchildrensbooks.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/now-she-tells-us.html\">Beth and Joe Krush<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So instead I&#8217;m going to welcome the new adaptations, and enjoy some new ways of seeing\u00a0<em>The Borrowers,\u00a0<\/em>and the new stories created from them. \u00a0I probably won&#8217;t like some of the sentimentality, or the idea of Mild-Eye being redrawn as an evil professor instead of gypsy, but that&#8217;s okay, I don&#8217;t have to. And maybe those aspects will speak to some who would otherwise never have the pleasure of knowing <em>The Borrowers.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw that Mary Norton&#8217;s The Borrowers had been turned into an animation, The Secret World of Arietty, my knee-jerk reaction was a blurted out tweet (a twurt?): Oh crap, The Borrowers have been Disney-d. Why can&#8217;t they make up their own damn stories? Or is it anime-d? Probably both. 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