Posted by Martin Honor on May 29, 2016 at 06:08:47 user MartinH.
In Reply to: Re: New S & A Film (Again) posted by Peter Hyland on May 29, 2016 at 00:53:07:
Barbara Altounyan then sums up the Titty/Tatty dispute, but then she adds “In the latest BBC version all the characters are cast as blue-eyed, red-cheeked and blond. Is this true? Not a bit. The real-life children were dark-haired with Middle Eastern complexions. The Altounyan children were in fact Anglo-Syrians . . .”
The book is a work of fiction about two groups of children, the Walkers and the Blacketts. It is not a biographical book about Altounyans and Collingwoods or Smiths and Joneses.
The characters were inspired by the Altounyans and doubtless many others, some consciously and some sub-consciously. It is not about real people any more than Rowling wrote about the real Harry Potter.
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