#The Winner adaptation

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Tom Holland is stepping into a brand-new role as a producer with the launch of his production company, Billy17! Partnering with his brother Harry Holland and Will South, Tom has signed an exclusive deal with Sony Pictures. Their first project, Burnt, written by Academy Award-winner Rodney Rothman, is already generating buzz. Plus, adaptations of The Rosie Project and The Winner are on the way! Dive into all the exciting details in this video. Don’t miss out—hit that like button, subscribe, and join the conversation in the comments!

[adam-scott]

CONCLAVE hive, tonight we ride or die! Good luck with 8 (eight) Academy Awards nominations!

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CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR HORSEY CHAMPION, EPONA!

Thank you to all who participated in this tourney! I'll be back with more polls after the Holiday season!

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The English Patient (1996) Directed by Anthony Minghella

[bestanimal]

I just spent the last several hours compiling a list of all 220 orders of Round 3 so far and y’all… I’m sweatin

…so many fish…

[sillyfudgemonkeys]

Me: *points at Rangi before Kyoshi is found to be the Avatar* Me: Sugar Mama-Nepo Baby. Me: *points at Rangi after Kyoshi is found to be the Avatar and inherits all of Jianzhu's wealth* Me: Sugar Baby-Nepo Baby.

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MODERN ADAPTATION BRACKET WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT POST!!!

We have finished another tournament (or rather, two mini-tournaments!) Thank you guys for another great one, the results really surprised me this time around!! I apologize for deciding not to hold a Loser's Bracket & Mod's Choice poll this time around, but both will be back for the next tournament.

Before we go into the winners, however, I want to say that this blog is officially a year old! I opened submissions for our first tournament, Red Riding Poll, on July 26th of 2023, and the first rounds of the poll came in the early days of August 2023! Since then, we have hosted 4 tournaments (Red Riding Poll, Cinder Poll, Little Merpoll, & Modern Adaptation Brackets) and it's truly been a great experience! I can't wait to see how many more brackets we will do in the future :)

Okay, onward to the winners!

We will start with the Best Modern Bracket. The quarterfinalists for that one were Once Upon a Time and The Sisters Grimm! Once Upon a Time has been a decisive pick, being both on the Best and Worst brackets, but since it only placed in the Best bracket it must have some merit to it! :) As for the Sisters Grimm, it was definitely a popular choice and probably would've won the whole bracket if it did not have to go against the eventual first-place winner/that said first-place winner wasn't in the tournament. I've never read it, but if I were to give "fan favorite" award for this bracket it would definitely win it. Congratulations to fans of both of these fairytale crossover series for the bronze medal!

The semifinalists of the Best Modern Bracket was Hook! This is another one that I haven't watched, but Robin Williams' old movies are definitely great nostalgic picks (RIP). Though technically Peter Pan isn't a fairytale, I think that it is often listed with them enough that it should count, so congrats to Hook for carrying that win!

Finally, the winner of the Best Modern Bracket was none other than the magical girl classic, Princess Tutu!!! This is one of my favorite anime series that I don't see often, so I was more than surprised to see it not only submitted but win (and by a lot, too! It practically swept every poll it went against, even things like Ponyo which I really thought was going to carry the win due to how universally loved it is!) A delightful series that definitely deserves the love, I couldn't be happier to see that this little duck made it all the way to the gold <3

Applaud to the Best Modern Bracket winners!!! Now, get ready to point and laugh at the Worst Modern Bracket winners!!! (Or losers, in a way, if you think about it). Okay, but in all seriousness, if you like any of these listed for the Worst Modern Bracket, try not to take offense! This is all in good fun :)

The quarterfinalists for the Worst Modern Bracket were Avalon High and Sydney White! Sydney White was one of those that were in both brackets, but it only ranked in the Worst one. As for Avalon High, I have been told that the dislike for this one was more so for it being a bad book-to-movie adaptation, which is interesting to hear. Anyway, I haven't watched either, so I have no witty comments.

For the semifinalist, we have Hooked! Another Peter Pan adaptation in the 2nd place, go figure... Well, I feel as if this book was more well-known, it could've gone to #1 as people tended to have a lot of strong feelings on this. I admit, the summary doesn't make it sound too appealing to me... well, here it is with the silver for that!

The winner was obvious to me as soon as the bracket started. And I was right on the money, for none other than Beastly got the winning title of the Worst Modern Bracket! It has all the pitfalls of bad Beauty and the Beast adaptations that I've noticed and it's certainly quite infamous (especially after the Jenny Nicholson video)! I distinctly remember seeing the commercials for it on TV when I was a kid and thinking "that movie looks weird... is that what teens like?" Apparently not, since it didn't do so well! Nobody deserves the honor of being called the Worst Modern Bracket like this movie, good job!

aaaannnnndddd that's it for the modern bracket polls! Thank you everyone who participated. Our next tournament as voted on by you guys will be Best Fairy Godmother. I don't have a figure of when I will open submissions, but I would say at least two weeks. See you then! <3 <3 <3

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Thai Drama - 2023, 8 episodes

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In light of the rumors of this new movie... if I were you, I'd read this review and PRAY for someone like Paul Verhoeven or Todd Haynes for directing with Tom as the lead. This sounds exactly like what he needs. A fucking monumental pop culture moment who hits the zeitgeist and it's an adult role.

I'm on my way to find this book and start reading ASAP. It sounds fascinating (and no, nothing at all like Challengers. The tennis here is very background).

Tennis Triangles and Dark Twists: A Review of Teddy Wayne’s “The Winner” – Vol. 1 Brooklyn (vol1brooklyn.com)

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One Dress a Day Challenge

November: Oscar Winners

Hamlet / Jean Simmons as Ophelia

Year: 1948

Designer: Roger K. Furse

For the first decade or so of its existence, the Academy Award for Best Costume Design was split into "black and white" and "color." This film was the winner of the very first "black and white" Oscar for costume design.

I'm not entirely sure what period they're going for here, but the embroidery is very pretty.

[thatgeekwiththeclipons]

Happy 61st Birthday to Academy Award Winning, BAFTA Nominated, Golden Globe Winning, SAG Award Winning actor Nicolas Cage! ^__^

[bellamysgriffin]

I’m gonna say something and let’s all be nice to me about it if it angers you but

the fact that everything everywhere all at once and all quiet on the western front did a sweep at the Oscar’s the same year we got TAR and THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN is crazy…. bc tell me how did those movies go home with nothing after what they were up against

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watching life on our planet and im not even halfway into the first ep and i already feel like this

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Results

Someone let Tolkien know his instincts were right on: when he was debating names for the second installment of his trilogy, he considered "The Treason of Isengard" before ultimately deciding that it wasn't relevant to Sam and Frodo's journey and so shouldn't be the full title. It did, however, get used as the title for the first half of the book.

I'm not sure how many people voting for it picked it because they knew it was Tolkien's second choice vs because they simply liked it out of the available options. However, the fact that it got all the way up to ~35% of the vote before falling back down to 26.7% strongly suggests that a good portion of the early votes were indeed from book readers. (My polls usually reach the hardcore fans first, then gradually spread to the casuals.)

Most of the other options were pretty close to the expected average for a poll with 12 options (8.33%). Much to my surprise, however, the least popular option was Frodo and the Mountain of Doom (1.4%), which I personally thought was a quite clever take on Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Not sure why that didn't catch on.

Additional context

For those of you too young to remember or who simply weren't paying attention at the time, when 9/11 happened and the Twin Towers were destroyed in a terrorist attack several movies that were then in production made last-minute changes in response.

Most famously, Spider-man (the first one) removed all references to the towers after having featured them prominently in promotional materials. And animation fans are probably familiar with the story that Stitch originally hijacked a plane which he flew perilously close to buildings in Lilo and Stitch.

Obviously, The Two Towers was released with its original name intact, but there was a small movement to rename it at the time. Or more accurately, people pointed out the obvious "problem" with the title and wondered on the internet if it was going to "have" to be changed. This being 2002 and not 2022, the powers that be thankfully did not particularly care what some people on the internet said.

Also, although not strictly relevant to this poll, please appreciate this graphic someone on Wikipedia went to the trouble of making showing possible pairs of towers Tolkien considered having the title refer to.

In case you missed it

@rohirric-hunter shared a touching story about ordering the audio book of The Two Towers as a Barnes & Noble employee.

The movie references

If you wanted to know what movies were being referenced, a complete list is below the cut.

2 Lords 2 Rings (10.3%) 2 Fast 2 Furious - This was the title that made the least sense if you thought about it, but the format is a relatively common meme so I'm assuming that's why it overperformed the expected average.

Frodo and the Mountain of Doom (1.4%) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - Well, I thought it was clever.

The Ents Strike Back (5.4%) Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back - Honestly, I was pretty proud of this one too.

Look Who's Walking Too (3.2%) Look Who's Talking Too - This got my own vote. It's so broadly applicable to the story!

Rohan Family Values (2.8%) Addam's Family Values - I didn't expect this one to do well, and it didn't.

Frodo & Sam's Bogus Journey (8.2%) Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey - Looking at the notes, I'm not sure how many people voting for this one actually knew about the Bill & Ted sequel versus just liking the word "bogus."

The Desolation of Saruman (7.9%) The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - I didn't expect this one to do well either, but it held its own well enough.

The One With Helm's Deep (8.8%) Friends episode names reference - All Friends episodes are titled something like "The One With..." or "The One Where...", to the point that titles often use the abbreviation "TOW."

The Treason of Isengard (26.7%) As discussed above, this came directly from Tolkien himself. The Treason of Isengard is Book III (aka part 1 of The Two Towers), and The Ring Goes East is Book IV (aka part 2).

Lord of the Rings 2: Electric Boogaloo (9.7%) Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo - At this point, the sequel's title is better known than anything else about Breakin. Know Your Meme has a nice article on the topic.

Lord of the Rings 2: The Search For More Money (3%) Spaceballs reference - I was sad this one didn't do very well either (10 of 12), but I think people were aiming for more "serious" answers so they laughed but didn't actually vote for it.

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: Part 2 (12.5%) Reference to the glut of movies titled this way nowadays - Honestly a little disappointed this one placed second, actually, since to me it's the most boring of all. But I guess that's also what made it funny?