Turn the brief mentions of Anne’s hard, lonely life before Green Gables into flashbacks of full blown dog-barking, scream-crying, alcoholic-dying-while-beating-the-hell-out-of-her abuse. Turn Matthew’s calm conviction that Marilla shouldn’t send Anne away into a horse chase that ends with him smashing his head through a buggy window and saving her from a sinister man. Or you could go the Anne With An E route: Yank out all the bones of the plot and hammer them back together in the shape of the Game of Thrones. You could go the Joe Wright Pride and Prejudice route: Two hours to pull on the most essential narrative threads and wrap them around the spirit of the original work. You could go the BBC Pride and Prejudice route, for example: six hours of tender devotion to every word Jane Austen wrote. There are lots of ways to adapt a beloved book into a film or a TV series. If you’ve been waiting your whole life to hear Anne Shirley or Diana Barry get more canonical with their love than promises of eternal bosom friendship, Anne With An E - Netflix’s rework of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s much beloved, much adapted novel - will satisfy that longing for you, as long as you’re okay with the soul of Green Gables being ripped to shreds around it.
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