Posted by Katharine on September 27, 2003 at 09:57:41 from 81.104.184.145 user Katharine.
In Reply to: Re: -Titty's posted by Robert Dilley on September 26, 2003 at 18:39:10:
This is probably Ransome heresy, but if one was making a cartoon version of SA, I don't think it would matter so much if the location was changed. This is not to deny the tremendous sense of place in AR's books, but the location isn't one of the things that would translate to animation very well - the things to preserve would be the characters, story and sense of adventure.
The idea of them all speaking with American accents makes me wonder: did people who read the books in places other than the UK consciously imagine everybody talking with British accents, or did they just imagine them speaking like everyone around them, whether American, Australian or whatever?
The worst part of Ransome being Disneyfied would be the songs.