{"id":33411,"date":"2022-12-10T21:42:37","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T18:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hitmedia.su\/?p=33411"},"modified":"2023-02-01T16:01:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T13:01:42","slug":"ot-cherno-belogo-kino-do-hita-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hitmedia.su\/en\/2022\/12\/10\/ot-cherno-belogo-kino-do-hita-netflix\/","title":{"rendered":"From a black-and-white series to the Netflix’s hit"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time<\/span> 9<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

Wednesday premiered on Netflix on October 23, 2022. In the first week, he broke the English-language viewing hours record<\/a>. Took away the championship from Stranger Things (season 4), Wednesday became the absolute leader of the platform. Many viewers and critics noted that Jenna Ortega (main role) played a key role in such a bright start. Her Wednesday Addams turned out to be a deep and atmospheric character, the personification of a mixture between canonical and modern image.<\/p>\n

But what is this “canonical image”? And how much has it changed since the first appearance of the Gothic Addams family? Let’s figure it out.<\/p>\n

First appearance<\/h5>\n

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Fragment of the original comic by Charles Addams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Addams are a fictional family conceived and drawn in 1938 by American artist Charles Addams for The New Yorker magazine, which is still popular to this day. Addams’s idea<\/a> was to portray a “perfect” American family through the lens of satire and black humor, which resonated with the magazine’s readers. Wednesday, who is the daughter of Morticia and Gomez Addams, is obsessed with causing pain to others and surprisingly serious for her age.<\/p>\n

In the original version of Charles Addams, Wednesday has not acquire her pigtails for a modern audience, and her famous school dress is completely pink. However, such an atypically “bright” image for a member of the Addams family began to crumble very quickly. The catalyst was the emergence of a television series.<\/p>\n

First film adaptation: “The Addams Family”<\/h5>\n
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Wednesday in the series “The Addams Family” 60s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The comic about Addams family was first adapted for television in 1964, then began airing regularly on ABC. Here Wednesday already acquired characteristic and recognizable features – two pigtails in the middle, a strict black school dress, and a heavy look from underneath. We heard the name “Wednesday” for the first time – Charles Addams picked up the name of his little heroine only when he received an offer to make a family TV show. As it turned out, the name was derived from an old English nursery rhyme “Monday’s Child”:<\/p>\n

Monday’s child is fair of face<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Tuesday’s child is full of grace<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Wednesday’s child is full of woe<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Thursday’s child has far to go<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Friday’s child is loving and giving<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Saturday’s child works hard for his living<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

And the child that is born on the Sabbath day<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Is bonny and blithe, and good and gay.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Since grief and misfortune are exactly what pleases the artsy American family, it was decided to name the girl Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Cultural Phenomenon: The 1991 Addams Family Movie<\/h5>\n
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Wednesday performed by Christina Ricci<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The film “The Addams Family”, which released in 1991, gave the world the most famous image of Wednesday Addams performed by Christina Ricci. It’s an image about the girl look from a strange family, making two black pigtails and a black school dress with a high white collar one of the most popular Halloween costumes of the 90s. In the New Yorker comic and the 1960s sitcom, although Tuesday dressed in dark colors and had strange and characteristic Addams hobbies, she was essentially an adorable child, the standard image of a little girl in a family television series. Whereas 1991’s Wednesday is a heroine with a high intellect followed by a serious and sometimes stern demeanor, and all lines are delivered in a monotonous voice with a deadpan expression on her face. In the film, the character of Wednesday was revealed the most, she ceased to be “one of the two children” of the Addams couple and became an independent and bright character – with a memorable gloominess and cruelty.<\/p>\n

Christina Ricci’s performance did not change much but finalized the canonical image of Wednesday Addams. Subsequently, the authors of all subsequent adaptations began to rely on it. This is because Wednesday of 1991 has become not just a minor character, but the main character<\/a> in the eyes of the audience. Her feminist statements and honesty added depth to the heroine, and the external image became more in line with modern cinema than the version of the girl from the 60s.<\/p>\n

Conquest of the world of animation<\/h5>\n
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The image of Wednesday from the cartoon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 2019, the feature-length cartoon The Addams Family was released on the big screens. The animation exaggerated the image of Wednesday, adding to her pale, the ability to move silently (thus frightening unprepared characters), and the lack of a smile throughout the cartoon. Wednesday was voiced by American actress Chloe Grace Moretz<\/a>, who did not look like her heroine in appearance, but talentedly conveyed the girl\u2019s lack of emotions and gloominess verbally.<\/p>\n

Wednesday from the animated film is naturally based on the image that the audience loves, embodied by Christina Ricci, so there were no significant changes in it.<\/p>\n

The hit of autumn-winter 2022: A series on Netflix<\/h5>\n
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Wednesday performed by Jenna Ortega<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The final stage of character development to date is Wednesday Addams, played by Jenna Ortega, in the Netflix series. What immediately catches your eye is the appearance of bangs on the heroine. In an interview, Jenna admitted that she and the director of the project, Tim Burton, wanted to add something new to the famous image that could distinguish it from previous versions. The outfits for Wednesday have also changed. The classic school uniform was replaced by a black zip-hoodie, striped long sleeves, and rough black platform boots. But most of all, the attention of the audience was attracted by the dress that Wednesday wears to the school prom – yes, everything is just as frilly but elegant and not typical of previous generations of Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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Dress Wednesday in one of the episodes of the series<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In addition, the series also changes the age of the heroine. In the Netflix hit, she becomes a teenager, which, although done rather develop the plot, nevertheless gives a look at the heroine from a new, previously unknown side.<\/p>\n

One thing is for sure – a heavy look and love for black remain the eternal companions of the heroine. For more than 80 years, Wednesday has changed significantly on the outside, but inside she always remains a gloomy and mysterious girl, as Charles Addams intended.<\/p>\n

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