![]() ![]() You just cannot cram a novel like this into a three-hour TV movie and make it work, not without ripping out the heart and soul. But as much as I love reading Maud Montgomery's classic girls' novel - and it's a personal favorite now - I still don't enjoy the Canadian production. Now, perhaps my sensibilities have just changed a lot since 1986. After the second episode, I was running down to the nearest bookstore for a copy of that book. That remained the case until last year, when I finally broke down and watched Isao Takahata's 1979 animated version. I was so put off by its hokeyness on one hand, its harshness of Marilla Cuthbert on the other, that I never so much as touched the book. ![]() ![]() Predictably, all the girls loved it, and all the boys were bored by it. It was shown during 8th Grade English one week. I was in Junior High School when the Canadian television production of Anne of Green Gables was made. ![]()
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