I would love a good film adaptation of Daddy Long-Legs that focussed on it as a Bildungsroman and Judy's opportunity for intellectual growth and discovery. I think that it would be entirely possible to adapt the romance in a way that audiences found non-cringy, if the will were there. Cast a Jervis who is young - the plot really doesn't require him to be any older than 26/27 at the start of the book if he started putting orphans through college when he started college himself - and show his own developing awareness that he's messed this one up.
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I would love a good film adaptation of Daddy Long-Legs that focussed on it as a Bildungsroman and Judy's opportunity for intellectual growth and discovery. I think that it would be entirely possible to adapt the romance in a way that audiences found non-cringy, if the will were there. Cast a Jervis who is young - the plot really doesn't require him to be any older than 26/27 at the start of the book if he started putting orphans through college when he started college himself - and show his own developing awareness that he's messed this one up.