Posted on 02/06/2023 11:16:44 AM PST by C19fan
Olivia Colman looks unrecognisable with white hair and yellow teeth in the first teaser trailer for BBC's upcoming adaptation of Great Expectations.
The actress, 49, who plays Miss Havisham in the Charles Dickens classic, welcomes a young Pip (Tom Sweet) to Satis House for the first time in the footage.
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Me too.
"Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is so much more interesting both grammatically and in content."
I agree. It's one of my favorite books and one of the greatest I have ever read. It's an easy read. I've read it all, but I can now pick up anywhere in there (mine's in three volumes) and marvel at Gibbon, his clarity, his profundity, his concision, the depth of his insight, and of course the tales he has to tell. What a masterpiece!
Another of my favorites is The Bhagavad Gita. I have read it five times, in several different translations and have attempted it in Sanskrit (with minimal success). It is magnificent.
I also love Nathaniel Hawthorn. The Scarlet Letter is one of my favorites of all time.
I also like Herman Melville. I love Moby Dick and Billy Budd.
Also William Faulkner, especially Absalom! Absalom! and The Sound and the Fury. I read The Sound and the Fury five times and didn't understand anything. I read Faulkner's explanation of it, and I was more confused than ever. Then one evening at a party given by my sister, I met one of her friends who taught Faulkner in college. I said to her, "You're not leaving here tonight until you tell me what that thing's about." She said, "Okay." So we sat on a sofa for several hours while she explained everything to me. Then I re-read it and it was crystal clear--but I was so depressed I wished I hadn't understood the damn thing!
True. Tolstoy’s wordy.
Among many other failings, the dramatized versions I have seen completely skipped over the character of Bishop Charles-François-Bienvenu Myriel--a monumental failing. Hugo devoted the entire first fifteen chapters to him and his character. He is one of the greatest characters in all literature and certainly one of my favorites.
I think even to begin to tell this magnificent tale adequately would require something like 20 or 25 episodes, maybe more.
The 1960s Russian War and Peace was also better than anything the English-speaking world has done. It's said to be the most expensive film ever made, but that's because the regime gave the filmmakers everything they wanted without demanding payment.
Okay. I will. Thanks. I have not seen it.
"Would you seriously expect the British or Americans to do Dostoevsky very well?"
No. Your point is excellent.
She’s not black AFAIK. She played Queen Elizabeth on The Queen.
I've read the book, and like it for things like that. Translating them to the screen, even at Game of Thrones scale? A challenge, at best.
Sir Cedric Hardwicke did pretty well with his portrayal in 1935.
I didn’t know about the 1935 version. Thanks!
Until my mom bought an edited-for-not-weighing-a-ton-or-having-really-tiny-letters version (which left out a lot of the Myriel material and only showed Col Pontmercy’s “rescue” by Thenardier while omitting the battle), it was the only knowledge I had of the story. It ends on a high note with Cosette reunited with injured Marius, and near-arrest by and subsequent suicide of, Javert.
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