Movies made after Lindgren usually take part in present time, or some non-determined time (that might be present as well). Locations is often rural, what makes this time question even more irrelevant (way of life, or family relations and relations with people outside families don't change quickly in rural communities).
Her characters are frequently much younger than Ronja and Birk, and target audience is often that age too, making them less interesting or boring for adults (Madicken, Bullerbyn movies - thought the latter made by genius like Hallström).
Though some of her characters (Pippi Langstrump) has some unusual or supernatural powers, her stories are usually quite realistic, and I don't remember any other that used Scandinavian mythology (like creatures in Ronja). Yes, Bröderna Lejonhjärta did contain different creatures, but this was an after-life world and not an old legend.
Unlike many other of these movies, relations among adults are much better developed, and adults are not restricted only top their relations to kids. We see their life, their problems, and children are incorporated in their world (in most other Lindgren movies children appear as the center of their world, and adults either only serve them, or annoy and cause problems, or are victims of kids' jokes, but only Ronja makes kids and adults equally important members of family, of community, of plot, of world.
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Brommabo
12 years ago
Unlike many other of these movies, relations among adults are much better developed, and adults are not restricted only top their relations to kids. We see their life, their problems, and children are incorporated in their world (in most other Lindgren movies children appear as the center of their world, and adults either only serve them, or annoy and cause problems, or are victims of kids' jokes, but only Ronja makes kids and adults equally important members of family, of community, of plot, of world.
I totally agree with that. It reminds me of a dialouge in the book. When everybody finds out about Ronja's and Birk's friendship and Birk tells his mother: "She's my sister" his mother responds with something like "we'll se about that in a few years".
That response is clearly an adult joke and a child probably wouldn't get it. Can't remember if it's in the movie but I think it shows that the book isn't just about the kids.
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Brommabo
12 years ago
I looked at the quotes just now and saw this one.
Undis: What do you have in cahoots with her?
Birk: She is my sister.
Undis: Sister? Right, we know how that will turn out in a few years.
That's great they kept it in. :)
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KungMartin90
11 years ago
Gillar att alla är svenskar här. Vi är så jävla självbelåtna =D
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