SONYAA's RANDOM MUSINGS HITS A CENTURY: REMINISCING A WONDERFUL JOURNEY SO FAR & MUCH MORE...

Hi Friends,

How are you doing? Hope all's well at your end.This month's post is special because Sonyaa's Random Musings hits a CENTURY! Yes,you read that right... this is my 100th post on Sonyaa's Random Musings! Cheers!! 

Today,I fondly look back at this wonderful journey that began seven years ago when my father prodded me towards putting my writing skills into practice by starting a blog.He knew from the start about my love for films (both front and behind the camera), thus he encouraged me to pen down my thoughts on the same and collate them in the form of a well-structured blog. He believed that blogging was a powerful platform to network and interact with like-minded people and professionals from different walks of life who shared the same passion for films. And thus, I am eternally grateful to my father on his much cherished vision for Sonyaa's Random Musings!

Though I am not a pro when it comes to writing about cinema...but I do believe each one of us has a view and perspective to share and so doI! :) During the initial years of blogging,I would oft pour my heart out on varied topics like current issues,politics,spirituality and of course,films until I decided to make it a niche blog purely on and about films and the vast canvas it encompasses.

DISCUSSING THE 1994 TV MINI-SERIES, SCARLETT : COULD IT HAVE BEEN BETTER?

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How are you doing?In this month's post,I shall once again be discussing the 1994 TV mini-series Scarlett,the sequel to Gone With The Wind and get analyzing on what clicked with me about this adaptation and what didn't vis-a-vis the plot, characters and story-line.And for those of you who haven't read last month's post which was a brief review of Scarlett then here's the link. It'd help you to connect on what I am just about to discuss in this month's post!

So then...let's get started!

Scarlett,the sequel to Gone With The Wind

As I read the plot of Alexandra Ripley's book,I found that the series directed by John Erman starring Timothy Dalton and Joanne Whalley deviates sharply from the original novel with some unusual twists and turns that is hard to comprehend and as a result falls flat on the face!It doesn't by any account do justice to the characters and the plot that Margaret Mitchell had envisaged in her best-seller novel, Gone With The Wind which was further aptly adapted on the big screen with a perfect cast and deftly helmed under the direction of Victor Fleming in 1939 starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable. However all said and done,I'd have been happier to watch the sequel,Scarlett from a different perspective altogether had it not been touted as the sequel to Gone With The Wind!However,this 1994 mini-series is one classic case of an adaptation to a sequel gone horribly wrong!Of course,Ripley's novel was sans any dramatic twists to get you hooked on to the book either however the 1994 television series,a varied version of the book was incoherent, inconsistent and formulaic to say the least with the intent of springing up surprise elements of suspense,crime and court- room drama to spice up the narrative of the story!