I've always been a huge fan of movies based on my favorite y.a. books - and traditionally, the movie's stay true to the book, but make it readily available to a wider audience. Following in the footsteps of widely popular y.a. books-turned-movies 'Harry Potter', 'The Chronicles of Narnia', and 'Stuart Little', 'Charlotte's Web' bring's E.B. White's classic story of a loveable pig to the big screen.
I've always been a voracious reader, but my first encounter with "Charlotte's Web" as a kid changed the way I read. E.B. White's classic children's novel has a habit of doing that. It's one of those rare pieces of genuinely great literature that leaves anyone who reads it permanently altered....'Charlotte's Web' is a special book, the kind of book that opens minds. Since its first publishing back in 1952, E.B. White's masterwork has changed millions of young lives. How do you turn something so culturally transcendent, so significant, so perfect into a feature film? If you're director Gary Winick, you do it beautifully.
Winick's film doesn't just tell the story of 'Charlotte's Web'; it captures the spirit, the essence, and the significance of E.B. White's classic. It gets the big picture, the broader strokes of what White's book does so well. It's more than a movie about Some Pig, it's a story about exalting in life, celebrating change, and finding hope in death. Charlotte's Web isn't just a good adaptation, it's a great film. A piece of moving poetry, the kind of movie that just might broaden young minds in the same way the book has for so many years.
http://www.cinemablend.com/reviews/Charlotte-s-Web-1945.html
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