Crusoe!
NBC is broadcasting a new show tonight called Crusoe, based, obviously, on Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, which I read over the summer in South Carolina.
It’s very exciting to see a great eighteenth century novel adapted for the screen, but I’m a little worried that this is going to be a very loose adaptation, indeed. For example, it seems to be glossing over the whole slavery motif in the novel. Crusoe gets stranded on the Island of Despair when he was a mission to go get slaves in Africa. Also, as this series begins, Friday is already Crusoe’s friend. No mention is made of how Crusoe intended for Friday to be his servant. Also, they haven’t shown any of the cannibalism.
I see that this series is set to run 13 episodes. Let’s see if it gets more or less accurate.
Filed under: Literature and Books, Television on October 17th, 2008
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