In the real world, receiving anonymous gifts from a person who is secretly in love with you is not romantic.
Because she’s a child. Where I come from, grown men who want to sleep with Pippi Longstocking are called pedophiles. You see how the frame angle on Jervis is from way, way below his eye-level? That’s because he’s like two feet taller than Judy. Jervis’ age might be more accurate in this version, but Judy is in high school. Seriously, WHO THOUGHT THIS DANCE NUMBER WAS A GOOD IDEA? This is largely attributable to Caron being in her early 20s, whereas Astaire was born in the 19th century, but this also has a lot to do with it: I never thought I’d say this, but Fred Astaire is so not charming or debonair. My read could be totally wrong, though, because I really wasn’t watching properly. So I’m hazy on this part because I wasn’t really paying attention, but I think they made this version slightly less creepy than the book? Jervis is still significantly older than Judy, but the development of their romance seems a little less like he’s trying to control her life and a little more like serendipity. These are details I’m willing to overlook for the sake of JUDY BEING AWESOME, but as we have already seen, her awesomeness (or lack thereof) might not be able to make up for the creep factor in these adaptations. Jervis is not only significantly older, he is jealous, controlling, and manipulative. I love Fraulein Maria as much as the next girl, but Judy Abbott she is not.Īs much as Judy’s awesomeness is a strength, the main (and only) flaw of the novel is how deeply, deeply creepy its romantic aspect is. There’s also a very weird number at the beginning where she sings to some French orphans about spelling. Leslie Caron is certainly more charming than Mary Pickford, but it’s more of the French sexpot variety than a hilarious mix of whimsy and sarcasm. Unfortunately, she doesn’t exactly exude personality? Jervie and Jimmie falling at her feet seems more about their being overcome by her beauty than by her AWESOMENESS, and Judy has so much more going for her than good looks. So how well does each actress capture Judy’s incandescent glory? The best part of DLL is how incredibly amazing Judy is. If that doesn’t make any sense to you, it doesn’t make any more sense watching it first-hand. And he suddenly stopped because HE is the apartment owner with the terminal brain disease! He remembers nothing of his prior love for Judy, but fate brought them together again! And then he dies. Anyway, in the surprise twist at the end, Jervie is Judy’s Daddy-Long-Legs, who had anonymously sent her presents when she was in school and then suddenly stopped. Meanwhile, Judy starts dating and falls in love with a librarian at the station, who I guess is the Jervie character? Except that he is nothing like Jervie. Soon, they will have forgotten everything about their stalkee One True Love, hence the letters to the future self. Unfortunately, said apartment owner is suffering from some kind of terminal, memory-degenerating illness that only exists in Korean dramas. On the owner’s computer, she finds some emails addressed to the owner’s future self, recounting their years-unrequited love for someone who doesn’t even know they exist. Judy gets a job at a radio station and also begins living at the vacated apartment of an unidentified staff member, who is away on a mysterious medical leave. I’m not actually sure you can call this an adaptation. The major difference is that in this adaptation, Judy is in high school rather than college.
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Like the 1919 version, it adds lots of storylines, but unlike its silent predecessor, the supplemental bits adhere to the spirit of the original and simply round out the plot into a full series of episodes. This is far and away the most faithful version of the bunch. Also, Fred Astaire is really, really old. So Judy (called Julie in this version) is from a French orphanage, and all her charms revolve around her being young and beautiful and French. Everything is very melodramatic and badly paced.Īs Olive Pendergast once said, “to say that one was ‘freely adapted’ is A BIT OF AN UNDASTATEMEN’, GOVNA!” For starters, Judy is played by Leslie Caron, who is French. It also likens the John Grier Home to a prison chain-gang. There’s also a weird, parallel subplot about someone called Angelina Wycoff and unnecessarily tragic flourishes like Judy being found in a trash can. The first forty-five minutes are devoted to Judy causing trouble at the orphanage, something that is merely referenced in the original. Where it fails is its addition of all sorts of batshittery that is not in the book. This adaptation hits upon the high points – the infamous John Grier Home Gingham, Lock-Willow Farm, the Judy-Jervie-Jimmie love triangle. With nearly flawless source material, it’s important to examine how closely each film sticks to the novel.
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