When BBC Films announced it was to remake Swallows and Amazons, it stressed that the production would stay true to Arthur Ransome’s classic.
The film would remain a period piece set before the days of health and safety hysteria, with the young characters allowed the freedom to mess about in boats and set up camp on their island adventure.
Hurrah! But wait!
There will be one major change, however. The pluckiest of the Walker children has been renamed after it was decided a character called Titty would provoke too many sniggers.
*rolls eyes*
Titty was played in the 1974 version by Sophie Neville, who was then 12 years old.
“I’ve been Titty for the past 42 years,” she laughed on Wednesday. “I didn’t get any stick at all over the name in those days. But if they have to change it I think Tatty is a good choice, because Mavis Altounyan and her elder sister were known as Titty and Tatty when they sailed so there is a real-life basis for it.
“I’m thrilled that they’re changing it, really, because it makes the new film a bit different.”
Maybe something ‘a bit different’ isn’t what’s needed? Still, I suppose we should be grateful that they didn’t
make one of the characters black…
6 comments:
So what they are really saying is we are so brave by sticking to the original theme but we were fucking lucky nobody was black, smoked or took the piss out of women. However there is a naughty word so we better pander to the SJWs out there and rename it. Just like they did with Nigger in Dambusters.
Well fromn what I've seen they've f**ked up the CLangers by insisting on including two utter cretins (from diverse backgrounds of course) to beam at the children and provide a commentary that even a 4 year old would find condescending.
So I don't see why they won't wreck this as well. I mean they only children's classics aren't they...
Isn't Lenny (what's my line) Henry in ALL of these new productions? If not, why not?
Tatty is a bit degrading too. Totty would have been better . . . .
It's too close to home for the tits at the BBC.
"...but we were fucking lucky nobody was black, smoked or took the piss out of women."
Quite!
"Well fromn what I've seen they've f**ked up the CLangers..."
Ugh! I've avoided it because it seems they've shoehorned in an environmentalist theme too...
"Tatty is a bit degrading too. Totty would have been better . . ."
Heh!
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