Into every coevals since 1973 , an adaption of Mary Rodgers ’ novel Freaky Friday has been expect , and it has become an important part of young masses discover through pop culture that their parents are turnkey - ups just like they are .
Disney ’s late incarnation of the story — a made - for - TV musical theater free-base on the studio ’s recent Freaky Friday touring show — draws much of its inspiration from Rodgers ’ original story about a female parent and daughter who reach a good appreciation for each other after they as if by magic switch body . Of course , the film piss all of the same jokes and hits the beat we ’ve hail to wait from Freaky Friday stories . Teen Ellie ( Cozi Zuehlsdorff ) is dismay to find herself stuck with her mother ’s adult skin and hands while Katherine ( Heidi Blickenstaff ) is dismayed to learn that her daughter is n’t exactly living up to her gamey outlook .
A parent and child who ca n’t see eye to eye and also have to profess to be one another ? How zany !
The general lack of deviation from Rodgers ’ original plot is a large part of what ’s made the Freaky Friday adaptations such a fixture in people ’s popping cultural awareness . Regardless of whether you ’re keep an eye on the 1976 movie starring a untried Jodie Foster , the 2003 reboot with Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan , the exalt homagefeaturing Wolverine and Spider - Man , or even Lil Dicky and Chris Brown’s“Freaky Friday ” medicine videofrom a few month back , you know what you ’re in for and the message that ’s try out to be convey .
But the consistent plotting that ’s always made Freaky Friday feel so familiar is also set about to make reboots like the late come across as dated and kind of small - disposed about teen ’ ability to navigate the world .
The Disney Channel ’s “ kid - favorable ” public , where teen ’ greatest challenge amount to passing midterm and become throughcomplicated dance numbers , live in stark line to things like theCW’sRiverdale , a series that give its young character decidedly more complicated and mature plots to grapple with . The grounds for this difference is obvious — the Disney Channel and the CW are at diametric ending of a spectrum , recreate to two completely different audiences . But if you think back on what it was like being a teenager , the reality of their lives lies somewhere between what the networks are broadcasting .
While Freaky Friday ’s core idea about how young kids and adult could stand to better appreciate the several difficulties they ’re confront with on a daylight to day basis is unanimous , the means that the most late film wield its leads just feels boring — especially when you take into story what kind of lives teens direct in 2018 . Recent plastic film likeBo Burnham ’s Eighth Gradeunpack the elaboration of puerile societal dynamics the grownup characters in Freaky Friday stories are mean to be confronted with , but seldom are in an interesting way .
More and more , young(er ) people are becoming alive and engaged with the steering of our social and political discussion thanksin large part to their savvy with digital communications . It ’ll be a cold solar day in hell before Disney greenlights a Freaky Friday adaption where a parent discovers that their child has become a digital activist in the fight for comprehensive gun reform ( can you imagine ? ) . But the fact that that ’s a reality of many young people ’s lives today is all the more reason that a mod day Freaky Friday should feel well-fixed delving into thing about its persona that previous versions did n’t or perhaps could n’t .
There ’s so much more between multitude and their parents than the “ gosh , we ’re so dissimilar , but also very exchangeable ” dynamic that Freaky Friday ’s assumption is tailor - made to explore . to really do that , though , Disney ’s going to have to fall around to the idea of truly reimagining Freaky Friday ’s formula .
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