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**Adapt or Perish**

Whether it’s stage to screen, book to television, comic to blockbuster, or movie to musical and back again, this podcast leaves no adaptation unturned.

Latest Episodes:

Arthur (Ep. 46) Jul 02, 2019

Show notes

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:

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Father of the Bride (Ep. 45) Jun 18, 2019

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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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Jane Eyre, Part 2 (Ep. 44) Jun 04, 2019

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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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Jane Eyre, Part 1 (Ep. 43) May 21, 2019

Show notes

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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Freaky Friday (Ep. 42) May 07, 2019

Show notes

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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The Ten Commandments (Ep. 41) Apr 23, 2019

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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:

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A Star is Born (Ep. 40) Apr 09, 2019

Show notes

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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Godzilla (Ep. 39) Mar 26, 2019

Show notes

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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Brokeback Mountain (Ep. 38) Mar 12, 2019

Show notes

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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True Grit (Ep. 37) Feb 26, 2019

Show notes

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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