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Pippi Långstrump (TV-serie) – Wikipedia
Pippi Longstocking and friends "It's surely best for little children to live an orderly life, especially if they can order it themselves. They have since been adapted into multiple films and television series. The series is regarded as a classic of Swedish literature and the character has become a cultural icon. The stories all revolve around the adventures of the eccentric young heroine Pippi.
Her mother died when she was just a baby, so her sailor father, Captain Efraim Longstocking, raised her as he travelled the world on the seas. When he was blown overboard in a storm Pippi was convinced that her father had survived and would one day come looking for her, so she moved into an old house note Captain Longstocking had previously purchased as a retirement cottage called Villa Villekulla in a little Swedish village to wait for him.
Besides a pet monkey named Mr Nilsson and a horse named nothing at all, Pippi lives alone, takes care of herself and keeps a suitcase full of gold pieces to pay for anything she might need. She quickly befriends her neighbors Tommy and Annika, who are both very normal kids in a very normal family. Pippi herself is highly unconventional, assertive, and inhumanly strongquite able to lift her horse one-handed without difficulty.
She dunder karlsson blom also be instantly recognized by her distinctive red braids that stick straight out on either side of her head. At first Pippi's adventures are confined to the town she lives in and include her rescuing other kids from trouble, clashing with adults who underestimate her, and generally doing whatever she pleases with no regard for social norms.
She later travels with her friends to the tropical island where her father rules as king, having more exotic adventures there before returning home. By the end of the series pretty much everyone in the town comes to accept Pippi the way she is and nobody bothers to make her do anything she doesn't want to. This is okay because although she refuses to go to school or be put in an orphanage, and behaves very badly at times, Pippi is a good kid who really just wants to have fun.
The Pippi Longstocking books have been adapted for TV and cinema several times, the first being in The adaptation that is probably most widely known is the TV series a Swedish-West German co-production written by Lindgren herself and starring Inger Nilsson as the titular character, which was also re-edited into four feature films. There is also an American live-action film from produced by Columbia Pictures and starring Tami Erin and a Canadian-German-Swedish animated adaptation co-produced by Nelvana and starring Melissa Altro from The books and their adaptations provide examples of:.
Achievements in Ignorance : Dunder karlsson blom with in the film Pippi on the Run. Gloriously subverted in the climax, when Pippi rides a broomstick like a witch, and Tommy and Annika once again point out that this is impossible — but then Pippi cries "It's not impossible to me! I can do everything! In the American dub, her line is: "You may know that the broom can't fly, but the broom doesn't know it!
Adaptational Angst Upgrade : In the film, Pippi is sent to a dreary orphanage after one of her escapades results in her, Tommy and Annika nearly drowning, and living there breaks her spirit until she meets an eccentric man who restores her optimism. Adaptation Distillation : The Swedish TV series and its related films take everything that was good about the books and crank it up to eleven, while removing just about everything that didn't work or was just pointless filler, resulting in a much tighter story structure that still left room for a fair amount of the spontaneous wackiness and surreal dialogue that are Pippi's trademarks.
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It's helped tremendously by tight scriptwriting and good actors Inger Nilsson in the title role being the most prominent example. Lindgren herself was highly involved with this particular production, which explains why it's so much closer to the spirit of the books than its many successors. Adaptational Villainy : Mrs. Prysselius in the animated film. The original Prysselius from the TV series was not an antagonist; she was extremely silly, slightly annoying and completely incapable of seeing the value of anything non-conventional, but she was always well-meaning and genuinely wanted what was best for Pippi.
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The animated version, while still not much of a villain, is a lot more openly antagonistic and borders on being a Control Freak ; her goal seems to be to get Pippi and, really everyone else to behave and conform and do as she's toldand is prepared to employ some rather dubious methods in order to reach her goals. In the follow-up series, however, she is more a of an occasional nuisance in the dunder karlsson blom of a moral busybody at worst, a far cry from hiring a pair of criminals and outright kidnapping in the film.
Likewise, Tommy and Annika's father in the film takes on a more antagonistic role. In all other incarnations he's a fairly minor character who seldom appears but doesn't seem to have any problems with Pippi. In New Adventuresplayed by Dennis Duganhe's a parody of the Standard '50s Father who is a Nervous Wreck and disapproves of Pippi's free spirit and lets himself be tricked by the villains into taking an active role in getting her into the local orphanage as soon as possible.
Subverted for Bengt the bully in the TV series, Bengt is still a bully in the animated TV series, but he might be a bigger menace than his past incarnations. Past incarnations of Bengt were usually just limited to annoying, making fun of, and bothering potential victims, but Bengt in the TV series is not above being a sore loser and planning a sabotage against Pippi during a ski race teaming up with dunder karlsson blom Jerkassmisogynistic registrar- who thinks little girls can't ski and refuses to register Pippi into the race - to delay Pippi and when that fails, he resorts to attempting to bury Pippi in an avalanche.
Adults Are Useless : Played straight most of the time, but there are some notable exceptions. The local school teacher always treats Pippi kindly and is very patient with her bad behavior. Tommy and Annika's parents are like this, too, to the point that they trust Pippi with their children's lives.
Then there's Pippi's father, who is just as unusual as she is and allows her to keep living the way she wants to. All of the Other Reindeer : In New AdventuresTommy and Annika's reaction to Pippi playing with the orphanage children is that their father would disapprove. Always a Bigger Fish : Subverted. Pippi has inherited her Super-Strength from her father, so you'd expect him to be the only one stronger than her He's extremely proud of her for this.