The Borrowers (2011 film): Difference between revisions

This film takes place in a modern-day city, featuring a mostly original plot and drastically altered characters when compared to the original book -- the most notable ones being Spiller, who's been changed from [[Noble Savage]] to a [[Troubled but Cute]] biker boy in a red leather jacket, and the human Mildeye, who's gone from an [[Roma|evil, brutal Rom]] to an evil-but-bumbling professor played by [[Stephen Fry]]. Like the 1997 movie, it completely goes away from the "borrowers as a dying race" idea; here there turns out to be enough of them in one place to populate an entire underground city (built on the platform and partly on the tracks of an abandoned railway station). The critics noted, though, that while the movie had very little to do with Mary Norton's books, it still stayed fairly true to the themes and spirit of them, making it more of a [[Pragmatic Adaptation]]. ''Extremely'' pragmatic.