picking your brains?

[valancy_s]

I'm trying to think of modernizations of classic works of literature along the lines of Bridget Jones, She's the Man, that kind of thing - other than Jane Austen or Shakespeare. Help? Can be a film, TV, a novel, whatever.

ETA: Including children's and YA retellings, btw.

Comments

[epea_pteroenta]

Isn't "O brother, where are thou?" meant to be a version of the Odyssey? (I've not seen it.)

Can't think of anything else off hand...

[litlover12]

"O Brother, Where Art Thou" (The Odyssey)
Shaw's "Pygmalion" and L&L's "My Fair Lady" (the myth of Pygmalion)

Will try to think of more . . .

[snarkhunter]

The 4,000,000,000 different adaptations/versions/rewritings of A Christmas Carol.

And Oliver Twist, for that matter.

[valancy_s]

I was thinking about Dickens, but I couldn't recall any retellings set in modern times, except that Great Expectations movie from the 90s (which I didn't see).

[myrna_nora]

Scrooged (1988) with Bill Murray

[valancy_s]

Oh, good one!

[breathingbooks]

A Knight's Tale depending on how you define modernization.

[myrna_nora]

Sparkhouse is a modern Wuthering Heights with the genders switched.