[News] Roald Dahl being updated for modern times

[Questions]

I don’t really have an opinion on the re-writing but I’m going to get one … ( an opinion)

 

[The Clamp]

I don’t really have an opinion on the re-writing but I’m going to get one … ( an opinion)

I have a lovely selection.

£5 a lump.

 

[BadFish]

Remember we are a free country

Freedom is the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint

This means we do not go back and attempt to revise books, art , songs Poems etc - accept them for what they are , a product of the time .

. . . It also means that the owners of the copywrite of books, songs poems etc are free to revise and change them as they see fit.

 

[BadFish]

I say KEEP THE DRAMA, it may be bad for the blood pressure, but it is very entertaining for the rest of us

You have to keep explaining in simpler and simpler terms until you get accused of being 'condescending'. Then you know the penny has finally dropped

I'll bet one of the next 3 posts will prove my point.

I love the fact that while people are banging on about freedom like a made up William Wallace. They are also advocating for the owners of this intellectual property to be BANNED from revising it and insisting that others share their opinions and 'just get over it'.

I will also say that there are a number of excellent opposing opinions on this thread also.

 

[BadFish]

History books, archaeological books, medical literature all get updated as we become more enlightened.

I have no issue with Roald Dahl being rewritten, any kids books in fact. Update them or watch them drift into obscurity and off the shelves.

If it’s kids books, they should be revised to suit our children’s sensibilities.
And it is really only children’s literature that gets revised.

Nobody is going to be rewriting Thomas Hardy or Keats. Because adults are capable of realising it’s of its time. Kids don’t have the comprehension to understand that. So it’s right their books are revised from time to time.

Wait til people find out how much fairy tales have changed to suit more modern sensibilities over the years. The pearl clutching will go into overdrive.

 

[The Clamp]

Wait til people find out how much fairy tales have changed to suit more modern sensibilities over the years. The pearl clutching will go into overdrive.

Disney alone have cleaned up dozens of tales. Cinderella being a good example.

 

[BadFish]

Disney alone have cleaned up dozens of tales. Cinderella being a good example.

It's a revised and adapted tale as old as time.

FWIW I hope the market pushes back on this and people buy the older versions. I like the rough and ready language of Dahl. But then I've always liked those gruesome and somewhat disturbing old fairy tales too.

 

[Bakero]

Wait til people find out how much fairy tales have changed to suit more modern sensibilities over the years. The pearl clutching will go into overdrive.

Disney alone have cleaned up dozens of tales. Cinderella being a good example.

Fixtures!

The colour of his coat does seem an odd thing to change. At the end of the day though, as others have mentioned, this is nothing more than a cynical attempt by big business to maximise the profits of their newly acquired IP. Much like Disney decided to remove the scenes of rape, cannibalism and torture from Grimm's fairytales to make them more palatable to young 20th century audiences.

 

[Questions]

I have a lovely selection.

£5 a lump.

That’s reasonable… can I have two then…. One on Brexit and one on favourite biscuits please.

 

[Bakero]

That’s reasonable… can I have two then…. One on Brexit and one on favourite biscuits please.

Plain crackers on both counts.

 

[WATFORD zero]

I say KEEP THE DRAMA, it may be bad for the blood pressure, but it is very entertaining for the rest of us

You have to keep explaining in simpler and simpler terms until you get accused of being 'condescending'. Then you know the penny has finally dropped

I'll bet one of the next 3 posts will prove my point.

 

[The Clamp]

That’s reasonable… can I have two then…. One on Brexit and one on favourite biscuits please.

Of course,

I like to dunk and hope for the best - £5.00

Malted milk - £5.00

Admin fee - £7,000.00

That’s £7010.00 please.

 

[giveusfalmerplease]

As a fat child I was called "slim Jim" , an ironic phrase considering my name isn't Jim. In class some once called out "hey lardarse, the boards this way" lol that was the teacher. In the 70s teachers could say and do what they liked!

 

[Winker]

As a child I remember reading an illustrated story about a boy having his thumbs cut off. Checking it out online I see that in 1845 a German doctor wrote a series of precautionary tales for his three year old to keep him on the straight and narrow. The tales come under the name 'Struwwelpeter' and the one I remembered was 'The story of the thumb sucker'

A thumb-sucking boy was told to stop it by his mother but when she went out he started it again. Then a roving tailor passing by, cut his thumbs off with his scissors.

Try reading that to a 3-year-old today!

 

[Questions]

Disney alone have cleaned up dozens of tales. Cinderella being a good example.

The version I once saw wasn’t cleaned up…

 

[Mo Gosfield]

As a child I remember reading an illustrated story about a boy having his thumbs cut off. Checking it out online I see that in 1845 a German doctor wrote a series of precautionary tales for his three year old to keep him on the straight and narrow. The tales come under the name 'Struwwelpeter' and the one I remembered was 'The story of the thumb sucker'

A thumb-sucking boy was told to stop it by his mother but when she went out he started it again. Then a roving tailor passing by, cut his thumbs off with his scissors.

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Try reading that to a 3-year-old today!

Thank goodness he wasn't a cocksucker.

 

[Hugo Rune]

Plenty of big stories today, be it the invasion of the Ukraine or even the death of commentary legend Motty; for the papers to stick on their front pages.

You have to be some kind of right wing non-dom culture war stoking c*** to the lead with Dahl story yet again! Even the Sun got it right FFS!

Newspaper headlines: 'Ukraine's year of blood' and 'let them eat turnips'

Many of Friday's papers reflect on the war in Ukraine on the anniversary of Russia's invasion and the UK's fruit and veg shortages.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[BadFish]

Plenty of big stories today, be it the invasion of the Ukraine or even the death of commentary legend Motty; for the papers to stick on their front pages.

You have to be some kind of right wing non-dom culture war stoking c*** to the lead with Dahl story yet again! Even the Sun got it right FFS!

Newspaper headlines: 'Ukraine's year of blood' and 'let them eat turnips'

Many of Friday's papers reflect on the war in Ukraine on the anniversary of Russia's invasion and the UK's fruit and veg shortages.

www.bbc.co.uk

Love how they have crowbarred in the royal family though. How can anyone read that tripe.

 

[keaton]

Alright, hair-splitter. Removing it from the text of a book.

But that's the point. You're complaining about censorship and banning. That's not what's happened.

 

[Zeberdi]

Compromise all round - now worried parents can read/buy the sanitised modern versions and historians can relax in the knowledge the originals are also re-released as classic editions

Roald Dahl classic texts to be kept in print after outrage over changes to books

Publisher Puffin has announced two classic editions of the writer's books will be published after public opinion was divided by news the collection would be edited to remove or rewrite language deemed offensive.

news.sky.com

phew