![]() ![]() ![]() Philippa Lowthorpe works hard to create a sense of danger and excitement in the childhood adventure of unaccompanied sailing, and camping on an island, and very nice too. ![]() I couldn't see how a subplot about 'real' 1930s Soviet spies could possibly be introduced into the plot without making the children's pirate adventures and sea battles seem suddenly trivial and, well, childish. This makes perfect sense to children, and it takes adults back to our own childhood when we too found our own fantasy games far more important and meaningful than anything adults did. No adult POV is included to give us a perspective on the children's outlook, their emotions and imaginative world we only see what matters to them and we see it with their eyes. 'Swallows and Amazons' works as a book - and still does, nearly 90 years after it was written - precisely because it is concerned only with the children and their doings. If you think you don't have the ability to convey to an audience what you find exciting about it, find another career. If you think the book isn't exciting, don't use it find some other material. we're adding a whole new plot" That's always a sign that a production is heading for disaster. ![]()
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