Originally Posted by Karen 25th February 2006


While this book was written 50 years ago and the story is set in the late post WW2 1940s...how do you think it will translate on the screen for modern audiences?

Do you think there will be any concessions for modern day views? Or do you think the story will be told as it was originally written?

Shadowdog


I think it would be more effective if it stayed true to the period in which it was written.

Karen

Yes I think so too. Maybe I wasn't clear, I am wondering how modern audiences will look at this story as it is told in the time frame of the 1940s. There are many subjects then that are "issues" today that are included in the story. Today we cringe at the way women are written and treated and the way the world was back then. I wonder how these and other things will translate to the modern screen with today's audiences.

Giselle


I think any film that highlights improvements in life since the portrayed era can be effective for teaching as well as just plain entertainment. there are a huge number of young johnny fans who have no sense of recent history (much less pre-1900), wars, poverty, struggles. not because they don't want to learn - but they apparently aren't taught these these much anymore. i like to think johnny will get them in the theater but they will come out learning something - no matter how small.

and any era reflects the same themes - loss, love, ALCOHOL (never goes away does it - see the earl), marriage, the need to grow up.....and all of these elements are here in TGM.

Karen


Yes they are. Oh boy are they!

I had a hard time with the violence against women in this story. The amount of battering bothered me quite a bit. I am hoping that somehow that part of the character is softened. But I know it's part of the story and to remove it or diminish it would be going against the storyline of a 50 year old book.

I have volunteered at a family violence shelter and I know that is still exists today.