Basic Trope: A work gets its time period updated when adapted.
- Straight: The novel Troper Dreams was set in The '50s in Birmingham, UK, but The Film of the Book changes it to The '80s in Brooklyn, NY.
- Exaggerated: The original was set in the Stone Age, but the film changes it to 2020s London.
- Downplayed: The novel was set in 1956, but the film sets it a year later.
- Justified:
- The film adaptation turns out to also be a sequel to the book set several decades later.
- The novel (released 1957) only stated that it took place during the last occurrence of the "elfstedentocht". the film (released 1987) translated that as the 1986 race.
- Inverted: The novel was set in the 80s, but the film changes it to the 50s.
- Subverted:
- The film is set in the 80s. The 1880s.
- The Best SellerTroper Dreams (UK) was set in the The '50s, whereas the film is based on the lesser known Troper Dreams (US).
- Double Subverted:
- That scene was All Just a Dream, and the film is actually set in the 1980s.
- Which was set during The Great Depression.
- Parodied: The main character walks through the city in a 1950s dress while a "Mister Sandman" Sequence of the 80s is going on.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: The year remains the same throughout both versions.
- Enforced:
- The executives insist on the setting being updated because they believe this will make the work more accessible.
- The producers want to emphasize how the work's core warning still applies these days instead of merely relying on Values Resonance.
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- Defied: ???
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- Conversed: ???
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