Line #10 DerivativeWorks/TheSecretGarden


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6	[[caption-width-right:350:With this many adaptations, that garden's not much of a secret now, is it?\
7	[[labelnote:Clockwise from top left:]]''[[Film/TheSecretGarden2020 The Secret Garden (2020)]]'', ''Anime/HimitsuNoHanazono'', ''[[Series/TheSecretGarden1975 The Secret Garden (1975)]]'', ''[[ComicBook/TheSecretGarden2021 The Secret Garden (2021)]]''[[/labelnote]]]]
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10	Works based on ''Literature/TheSecretGarden'' (1911)[[note]]It's publishing date as a book. It was serialized in magazines in 1910-1911[[/note]], the novel by Creator/FrancesHodgsonBurnett.
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13	[[AC:Anime & Manga]]
14	* ''Anime/HimitsuNoHanazono'' (1991-1992), an anime series starring Creator/MinaTominaga as Mary as well as several other well-known seiyuu. Like the musical version, it expands the story quite a bit, focusing a lot on four elements: the Sowerby family (and not only Susan, but also her youngest kids); Lillias Craven's personality and her influence around those who surrounded her; Colin's notoriously frailer-than-in-other-adaptations health, and his long and difficult way to physical recovery with Dickon and Mary's help; and the {{Canon Foreigner}}s Camilla (a UsefulNotes/{{Romani}} young woman who acts as Mary's CoolBigSis), and Maximilian "Max" Hawkins (an accountant who used to work for the Cravens). Not to be confused with ''Series/HimitsuNoHanazono2007'', a Japanese comedy.
15	* ''The Secret Garden'' (2017), an OELManga published by Seven Seas Entertainment.
16	[[AC:Graphic Novels]]
17	* ''The Secret Garden''/''Le jardin secret'' (2021), A French ComicBookAdaptation published by Creator/{{Dargaud}} and in English by Creator/EuropeComics.
18	* ''The Secret Garden'' (2021), A GraphicNovel published by Andrews [=McMeel=] Publishing
19	[[AC:Films]]
20	* ''The Secret Garden'' (1919), starring Lila Lee. Very little is known about this film, as it's thought to be lost.
21	* ''The Secret Garden'' (1949), starring Margaret [=O'Brien=] and a very young Creator/DeanStockwell. This film was done mostly in black-and-white, but made use of Technicolor for the garden segments, in a move similar to ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.
22	* ''Film/TheSecretGarden1993'', starring Kate Maberly and directed by Agnieszka Holland. This is probably the most well-known of the films. The film features excellent cinematography, a haunting mood, and Creator/MaggieSmith in the role of Mrs. Medlock.
23	* ''The Secret Garden'' (2020), starring Dixie Egerickx and directed by Marc Munden. It also features Creator/JulieWalters as Mrs. Medlock and Creator/ColinFirth as Archibald Craven. The time period is changed from the original Edwardian setting to 1947, with the beginning now taking place in the context of UsefulNotes/ThePartitionOfIndia.
24	[[AC:Series -- Live Action]]
25	* ''The Secret Garden'' (1975), a [=TV=] series starring Sarah Hollis Andrews. This series remained extremely faithful to the source material and kept most of the characters and plot threads that other adaptations tend to excise, most prominently Susan Sowerby and her children.
26	* ''[[https://youtu.be/DBa7CcfdbHQ The Secret Garden]]'' (1987), an episode of the Series/HallmarkHallOfFame [=TV=] series starring Gennie James. Notorious because a certain someone undergoes a DeathByAdaptation.
27	[[AC:Theatre]]
28	* ''Theatre/TheSecretGarden'' (1991), a musical version that premiered on Broadway. This version placed more emphasis on the adults, with much of the plot being narrated by a ghostly chorus of "Dreamers". It also expands the plot considerably, up to adding in a primary conflict in the form of Archibald Craven's brother Dr. Neville Craven, who was in a love triangle with his own brother and Lillias, and is charged with both keeping Colin healthy and keeping the estate in order while Archibald is away.
29	[[/index]]
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31	!!Other adaptations contain examples of the following tropes:
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33	* AgeLift: The 1987 movie BookEnds the story with grown-up versions of Mary and Colin.
34	* AngstySurvivingTwin: The 2020 film makes this the cause of Mary's ParentalNeglect. Her mother lost her sister to a terminal illness and was always too depressed to be around Mary, who reminded her of said sister.
35	* BreakTheCutie: In the anime version, [[spoiler: Camilla and Max Hawkins]] were horribly broken in their backstories, which also [[spoiler: influences Max in his revenge quest against Archibald.]] Not to mention, we get to see ''exactly'' how badly [[spoiler: Lillias's DeathByChildbirth broke Mr. Craven himself...]]
36	* CastingGag: Creator/ColinFirth played adult Colin in the 1987 movie and went on to play Archibald Craven (Colin's father) in the 2020 version.
37	* CuteKitten: In the anime, Mary has a kitten named Patty, the only thing Mary treats with a shred of kindness prior to her CharacterDevelopment.
38	* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler: Dickon]], in the 1987 film version. [[spoiler: He and Colin both enlisted in the British Army for WWI, while Mary joined the Nurse Corps. Dickon was killed in action in the Argonne Forest while Colin comes home with a wound that gives him a limp.]]
39	* DelicateAndSickly: In the anime series, Colin ''is'' actually ill and crippled. [[spoiler: And ''he almost dies'' at some point.]]
40	* DrivenToSuicide: In the anime, [[spoiler: when it seems [[ImpoverishedPatrician he's about to lose the manor to Hawkins and be economically ruined]], Archibald Craven makes arrangements for Mary's and Colin's caretaking and gets ready to blow his brains off with a gun while staring at a picture of his dear Lillias. He backs off at the last moment.]]
41	* FramingDevice: The 1987 movie begins with Mary as a young woman returning to the manor and encountering Ben. The story is then told in flashbacks before returning to the present, where an equally grown-up Colin joins her and proposes to her.
42	* KissingCousins: Averted in the 1987 version, which changes Mr. Craven from Mary's uncle to an old family friend who agreed to take her in.
43	* MissingMom: While both Mary's parents are dead, she tends to think of her mother more often than her father.
44	* {{Motifs}}: The 1987 film particularly likes FlowerMotifs.
45	* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Mary, rather jarringly, has a [[DeepSouth Texan]] American accent in the 1987 version. Occasionally she can be heard trying for a British accent, but it just doesn't work. There's also that one scene where she attempts a Yorkshire accent...
46	* OohMeAccentsSlipping: In the Broadway Recording, you can tell that the actors tried really hard with their Yorkshire and RP accents, but they're still pretty cringeworthy.
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48	* RelationshipUpgrade: Mary and Colin get engaged at the conclusion of the 1987 movie.
49	* SettingUpdate: The 2020 version is set in 1947 as opposed to the customary Edwardian setting. The filmmakers believed that the original time period was too remote for modern kids but also noted that it couldn't take place in the present day because the story relies on [[SocialServicesDoesNotExist social services not existing]]. And since 1947 was the last year in which UsefulNotes/TheRaj existed, keeping Mary's original backstory was probably also a factor.
50	* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth:
51	** The 1987 Hallmark adaptation invoked this ''[[spoiler: by killing off Dickon]]!''
52	* UnrelatedInTheAdaptation: The 1987 version made the Cravens old family friends of Mary's parents, in order for Colin to be PromotedToLoveInterest while avoiding KissingCousins.
53	* WhyDidntIThinkOfThat: Mary has a moment of this when thinking why nobody likes her. Martha suggests that Mary does not like herself very much and indeed she does not; Mary says that she had never thought of that before.
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