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Background Information
The Original Work
Gulliver’sTravels, whose fulltitle is Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, is aprose satire by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift thatis both a satire on human nature and the “travellers’ tales” literarysubgenre. It is Swift’s best known full-length work, and a classic of Englishliterature. He himself claimed that he wrote Gulliver’s Travels “to vex the world rather than divert it”. Thebook became popular as soon as it was published.
First published in 1726, Gulliver’s Travelsremains one of the most exciting fantasy adventures ever written. Gulliver’sTravels is often described as a book that children read with delight, but whichadults find serious and disturbing. However, even young readers usuallyrecognize that Swift's “make-believe” world sometimes resembles their ownworld. Adults recognize that, in spite of the book's serious themes, it ishighly comic.
The book is in four parts, when LemuelGulliver sets off from Londonon a sea voyage, little does he know the many incredible and unbelievablemisadventures awaiting him. Shipwrecked at sea and nearly drowned, he washesashore upon an exotic island called Lilliput, where the people are only sixinches tall. Next he visits a land of incredible giants called Brobdingnagians.They are more than sixty feet tall. He travels to Laputa, a city that floats inthe sky, and to Glubbdubdrib, the Island of Sorcerers. His finalvoyage brings him into contact with the Yahoos, a brutish race of subhumans,and an intelligent and virtuous race of horse, the Houyhnhnms. Gulliver wishesto stay in the agreeable company of the Houyhnhnms, but they force him toleave. After Gulliver returns to
Scholars are still trying to discover allthe ways in which real people, institutions, and events are represented in Gulliver’s Travels. But readers need notbe scholars to find pleasure in the book and to find themselves set to thinkingabout its distinctive picture of human life.
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The Film Adaptation
This adaptation of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels is TV miniseriesbased on the original novel of the same name, produced by Jim HensonProductions and Hallmark Entertainment. Notably, this two-part miniseries isone of the few adaptations of Swift's novel to feature all four of the voyagesfrom the original story.
This version features a Dr. Gulliver whohas returned home to his family after a lengthy absence. The scenes shiftbetween elaborate flashbacks of his unbelievable travels and brief periods inthe present where he is recounting the story of his travels, and has beencommitted to an insane asylum as a presumed lunatic. While the flashbacksequences and the incarceration in the asylum are not in the original work, theminiseries remains faithful to the novel, although the ending has been changedfor a more upbeat conclusion. In Swift's telling, Gulliver is so impressed withthe Utopian country of the Houyhnhnms that when he returns to
It took several years for producer DuncanKenworthy to find the financial backing for the elaborate miniseries. Theproject required a great deal of Special Effects work, and ultimately JimHenson’s Creature Shop created several CGI wasps and engineered some prostheticmake-up for the Yahoos of Gulliver's fourth voyage. Kenworthy said that “It wassomething I’d been developing while Jim [Henson] was still alive.” “We wantedto do the whole book, and that was what interested Jim.”
The miniseries won several awards,including 5 Emmys, was nominated for many more, and was generally well received by critics. Entertainment Weekly’s Ken Tucker wrote that, “Everything aboutthis production is surprising, from its choice of Gulliver----Cheers’ TedDanson in an excellent wig----to its startling fidelity to Jonathan Swift’s1726 novel,” and referred to it as a “big, gaudy, funny production that feels freeto give full reign to Swift’s blithe vulgarity.”
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