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<blockquote data-quote="Crimson Longinus" data-source="post: 8665092" data-attributes="member: 7025508"><p>Yes. And this was not about the "sanctity of the source material." I don't mind that they changed things, I just feel this particular change was poorly handled.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Right. We know this. It was a real thing. The story is not particularly inaccurate. It still might be unwise to have the story's India episode to focus on this one very specific negative thing about the Indian culture of the time (especially as it is one of the things Raj apologists often bring up.)</p><p></p><p></p><p><em>Sigh.</em></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I had a longer explanation in my original post, but deleted it as I felt the detail was unnecessary for the overall point. Yes, there is character named Aouda in the TV show. She appears in one episode, is a completely different character aside the name, she never leaves India. The role which she play in the book is mostly taken by Abigail Fix in the TV show, a new female character invented for the show. (Though she is not Fogg's love interest.) Se is an English white woman. And the show is progressive in other regards. Passepartout is black, and he has a romance with Abigail Fix. And the show addresses racism and sexism of the era. But in this light side-lining Aouda and replacing her with a western white woman seems jarring. There is one scene where miss Fix wears a traditional Indian attire to a Governor's party at Hong Kong (gifted to her by Aouda when they were in India) and it really underscores that this English woman has taken this Indian woman's place in the story.</p><p></p><p>Of course Verne's books have Victorian misconceptions and Eurocentric viewpoint. But this book <em>published in 1872</em> had an Indian woman as a main character who had an interracial romance with an English gentleman (they eventually marry.) And somehow this modern adaptation from 2021 manages to make it in certain ways <em>more</em> Eurocentric. (All main characters are now Europeans travelling to "exotic" foreign places.) One would wish that they could have managed to keep Auda's significant role even though they didn't want to depict sati. It would have allowed to present more varied viewpoints. It would have required coming up with another reason for her to leave India, but certainly professional writers would be capable of that?</p><p></p><p><img src="https://telltaletv.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ATWIED_EP5_1-730x487.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Crimson Longinus, post: 8665092, member: 7025508"] Yes. And this was not about the "sanctity of the source material." I don't mind that they changed things, I just feel this particular change was poorly handled. Right. We know this. It was a real thing. The story is not particularly inaccurate. It still might be unwise to have the story's India episode to focus on this one very specific negative thing about the Indian culture of the time (especially as it is one of the things Raj apologists often bring up.) [I]Sigh.[/I] I had a longer explanation in my original post, but deleted it as I felt the detail was unnecessary for the overall point. Yes, there is character named Aouda in the TV show. She appears in one episode, is a completely different character aside the name, she never leaves India. The role which she play in the book is mostly taken by Abigail Fix in the TV show, a new female character invented for the show. (Though she is not Fogg's love interest.) Se is an English white woman. And the show is progressive in other regards. Passepartout is black, and he has a romance with Abigail Fix. And the show addresses racism and sexism of the era. But in this light side-lining Aouda and replacing her with a western white woman seems jarring. There is one scene where miss Fix wears a traditional Indian attire to a Governor's party at Hong Kong (gifted to her by Aouda when they were in India) and it really underscores that this English woman has taken this Indian woman's place in the story. Of course Verne's books have Victorian misconceptions and Eurocentric viewpoint. But this book [I]published in 1872[/I] had an Indian woman as a main character who had an interracial romance with an English gentleman (they eventually marry.) And somehow this modern adaptation from 2021 manages to make it in certain ways [I]more[/I] Eurocentric. (All main characters are now Europeans travelling to "exotic" foreign places.) One would wish that they could have managed to keep Auda's significant role even though they didn't want to depict sati. It would have allowed to present more varied viewpoints. It would have required coming up with another reason for her to leave India, but certainly professional writers would be capable of that? [IMG]https://telltaletv.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ATWIED_EP5_1-730x487.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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