Book Vs Movie "Psycho" (1960)
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The Margos are here Mother, and we are going to talk about Psycho whether she likes it or not!
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Book Vs Movie: "The Stepford Wives" (1975)
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The Margos are heading back to the Burbs with our long 70s flowing hair and obsession with waxing kitchen floors in the Ira Levin classic novel The Stepford Wives that was turned into a film in 1975 and directed by Bryan Forbes. Stepford, Connecticut is the fictional setting where families move in and within four months--the wives turn into robots who love, sex, cooking, and cleaning
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Book Vs Movie "The Phantom of the Opera" (1925)
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The Margos had an excellent suggestion for this episode--The Phantom of the Opera which first appeared in a series featured in Le Gaulois in 1909 & 1910 by author Gaston Leroux. Inspired by events that happened at the Paris Opera in the mid-19th Century, including a secret underground lake that was used for firefighter training as well as a chandelier crash that was a source of mystery at the time.
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Book Vs Movie "Of Mice and Men"
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The last week in September is “Banned Books Week” and the Margos want to celebrate by talking about one of the most controversial of John Steinbeck’s work-- 1937’s Of Mice and Men. Censors have attacked the story for its use of vulgarities (including racist language) and it is listed by the American Library Association’s list of “Most Controversial Books of the 20th Century.” We pair it with the Gary Sinise/John Malkovich 1992 film.
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Book Vs Movie "The Perks of Being a Wallflower"
Book Vs Movie Podcast
The Margos continue their back-to-school September episodes with a redo of one of the most asked-for books by our listeners--The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. Film stars Ezra Miller, Emma Watson, Logan Lerner. (Spoiler--we love both!)
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Book Vs Movie: "Clueless" & "Emma"
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The Margos are continuing our September “Back-to-School” films talking about Jane Austen and possibly her lightest novel--Emma and pair it with the incomparable Amy Heckerling-directed film Clueless. Both are revered for their humor & having a wonderful female lead.
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Book Vs Movie: "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"
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The Margos are celebrating September with a series of “Back to School” episodes starting with 1961 classic The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark. Brodie is a popular teacher at a girls school in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1931. Each year she picks a group of students to be an elite part of the “Brodie set”--under her tutelage learning mostly about the arts & beauty (and not science!)
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Book Vs Movie "A Room With a View"
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The Margos are closing out our “80s in August” with the James Ivory/Ismail Merchant film A Room With a View which is based on the 1908 novel by E.M. Forester. The book took a few years fro Forster to complete before his better-regarded works Howards End and A Passage to India but he felt it was “much nicer.”
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Book Vs Movie "Steel Magnolias"
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The Margos are making sure Shelby drinks her juice and that Drum doesn’t shoot Oiuser in this special episode talking about a play to movie adaptation from the 80s. Based on a true story about his sister’s death at a young age after giving birth, Robert Harling’s Steel Magnolias is the smart, funny tale of strong women who are underestimated by the men in their lives.
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Book Vs Movie "The War of the Roses"
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The Margos are still hanging out in the 80s and this episode is devoted to a book and film that were considered controversial for the time. (Some of our Facebook fans said “no thank you!” to this one.) The War of the Roses is based on a novel by Warren Adler and Danny DeVito directed the dark comedy.
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Book Vs Movie
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Margos Discuss Stephen Chbosky’s Book & Film
The Margos continue their back-to-school September episodes with a redo of one of the most asked-for books by our listeners--The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky.
Pittsburgh native Chbosky based the story in his hometown in the early 1990s as we follow the story of freshman Charlie who is dealing with a recent psychiatric hospital stay after his best friend’s death by suicide. He is facing highschool with incredible angst and writes in his journal a mythical friend to relay his feelings.
Charlie also lost his favorite aunt in a car accident (she was on her way to buy him a present) so he has quite a few demons to face while navigating school cliques. The novel deals with mental illness, rape, sexuality, drugs, and alcohol which made it on to “banned” lists at schools across the country.
The journey for Charlie includes making new friends, falling in love, making huge mistakes, and dealing with tremendous pain. It’s a beautiful piece of work and the movie is almost up to the task of meeting our expectations.
The film was a big hit and stars Logan Lerman as Charlie and a young Ezra Miller as his charismatic best friend Patrick Stewart. (Really. That’s the name they give him!)
There are a few changes between the book & the film and one BIG logic hole that we are still grappling with so check out this episode to hear our thoughts!
In this ep the Margos discuss:
- The bio of writer/director Chbosky
- Movies that take place in the 90s (How accurate are they?)
- Margo D’s Ezra Miller story!
- The cast including Logan Lerman (Charlie,) Emma Watson (Sam,) Ezra Miller (Patrick,) Mae Witman (Mary Elizabeth,) Paul Rudd (Mr. Anderson,) Nina Dobrev (Candace,) Kate Walsh (Charlie’s Mom,) Dylan McDermot (Charlie’s father,) Joan Cusack (Dr. Burton,) and Melanie Lynskey (Aunt Helen)
Clips Featured:
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower trailer
- “Cheers to Charlie”
- “The tunnel song”
- Charlie fights to football players
- Music: Come on Eileen by Dexy’s Midnight Runners
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