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- Anne is a girl who lives completely
in a fantasy world because she's had
a horrendous life and in a way to escape that life
she just lives in fantasy and so everything
is more magical and more wonderful
and more spectacular and so she comes
to our rather shabby little farm house
that's in desperate need of a paint job
and she thinks it's the most beautiful
thing she's ever seen in her life.
- It's exactly as I imagined it.
She's been an orphan her whole life
and now she's being sent to Green Gables
and they actually wanted a boy
but they decide that they can keep her
for a couple months and she's just having
the best time, she's actually making friends,
she's never had friends before, she's going to school,
she's going to church.
This is the most tragical thing that has
ever happened to me!
- Well child, we're not going to turn
you out of doors tonight here.
- The color of her hair is an indication
that this child is on fire and she ignites
everyone that she touches.
- I love being a redhead.
I'm normally a brunette, so having red hair
it's a totally different experience.
Berilla.
What does it mean?
- I believe it's short for Amarillus.
- Oh that's such as beautiful name.
Your mother and father must have loved you very much.
- You know Anne is one of the great characters
of literature because like all of the great characters
in great literature she's the one
that no one expects anything from
and we all want the underdog to succeed.
- Listen Mrs. Anne, with an e,
my sister's a very determined woman
and nobody gets the best of her so if I were you
I'd smooth over what's between you
and the sooner the better.
- Apologize?
- Yes, what say you?
- I supposed I could do it to oblige you.
He has that kindred spirit, he has that nice soul
and so they really get along when the first meet
and they're in the carriage and they're riding
up to Green Gables.
Amarilla's very proper and knows exactly what to do
and she's very strict and straight
and Anne is just in the moment and she's
enjoying everything as it goes.
Let's pretend, I mean together.
- Pretend what?
- Anything you'd like.
- Do you want to see my secret island?
- Why is it a secret?
- Fairies live there.
- Really?
- But you have to be very quiet or you'll scare them off.
Diana is Anne's best friend and she comes from
a wealthy family and they cross paths
when Diana finds Anne and Amarilla
comes over to visit and they go off
and play and Anne finds out that Diana
is imaginative just like her because
Anne's very imaginative and creative
and they become really good friends.
- Ding dong.
Well hello there carrots.
- How dare you!
- Gilbert would like to pull someone's pig tails
just because he's that kind of guy
who teases the girls.
He'd pull Anne's hair just to get her attention.
Anne is the girl for Gilbert.
He's the only girl that doesn't like him right
and I think he likes that adventure too.
- Anne surely in the book, she's really
an aspirational character for females I think.
She was back then and that's why I think
the books were so popular and really
nothing's changed today, I think girls are looking
for good role models in film and television
and they're attracted to people that have imagination.
- It's such an enduring, lovely story right,
we just fall in love with this character
because she's so spunk and feisty
and I think it's the relationships that
you know kind of live on.
It crosses all boundaries of time and place.
- I don't believe that if Anne were living today
her character would really be any different
than what she was back then in the last century.
(inspirational music)