Reader, I shot him. t /obQuote
It's my estimation that... every man ever got a statue made of him, was one kind of sumbitch or another.
Mal ,'Jaynestown'
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Jessica - Mar 01, 2006 6:46:18 am PST #721 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Strega - Mar 01, 2006 7:17:14 am PST #722 of 10001
Wuthering Heights is about extreme, passionate, demented people, placed in an eerie landscape that mirrors their emotional state. That's about as romantic as you can get without having a club foot.
"Romantic" doesn't just mean having or inspiring squishy feelings of love. They aren't naturalistic characters, they aren't classical characters; they're romantic characters.
Nutty - Mar 01, 2006 7:23:59 am PST #723 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
...If your character wouldn't be out of place swooping a cloak, he might be a romantic character.
...If your character stares out the window at moors at night, while the wind howls, he might be a romantic character.
...If your character has some kind of deformity that causes him to dress up like a great big freak, he might be a romantic character. (Okay, I think that happens only in one text.)
It's like "you might be a redneck", only in scarlet and midnight black!!
Sean K - Mar 01, 2006 7:26:42 am PST #724 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Snerk, Nutty.
Also, I just realized that I will be working Sunday night, as will S, and we'll be missing most of the Oscars. Dammit.
Kathy A - Mar 01, 2006 7:27:59 am PST #725 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I'll have Mr. Rochester and the batshit secret in the attic, pleasethankyou.
I'm about two-thirds done with The Eyre Affair, and love the fact that Rochester is becoming a big, if mysterious, character in this modern-if-AU story. Also loved that Wordsworth is portrayed as a typical poet, using his romantic airs to hit on women.
erikaj - Mar 01, 2006 7:35:50 am PST #726 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
JANE:Mr. Rochester(cocks pistol): Make up your mind.Blanche or me. I'm way too old for this shit. Oh, and thanks, Corwood, for the image of two of my favorite literary characters running around the moors like Paulie and Christopher in "Pine Barrens" Catherine saying "cocksucker" when her phone doesn't work, alone, may drive me back to therapy. Honestly, "Reader, I murdered him." works better. Alliteration and shit.
sj - Mar 01, 2006 7:42:13 am PST #727 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I don't know...I like the language in it.
Erika is me. I also just love how very fucked up all the characters are, but I love Jane Eyre more.
"Romantic" doesn't just mean having or inspiring squishy feelings of love. They aren't naturalistic characters, they aren't classical characters; they're romantic characters.
This is why I used a small 'r' in my post about Heathcliff not being a romantic hero. I use the small 'r' for squishy, happy romantic love stuff, and capital 'R' for the traditional definition. Wuthering Heights is about as Romantic as you can get.
Vonnie K - Mar 01, 2006 7:43:07 am PST #728 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
"Romantic" doesn't just mean having or inspiring squishy feelings of love. They aren't naturalistic characters, they aren't classical characters; they're romantic characters.
That's true, but I don't think the writer of that particular article meant the term in the broader "Romance" sense.
Jane Eyre was one of the formative books from my girlhood and I still carry fond memories of it, for all the overwroughtness. It saddens me that there hasn't been yet a "definitive" adaptation of the book to screen (IMO anyway) although I did like the Zelda Clarke/Timothy Dalton quite a bit. No doubt someone will try again.
There was a *terrible* adaptation of Wuthering Heights with Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes as Cathy and Heathcliff back in the early 90's. It boggled my mind because I love Binoche and Fiennes, but they were so miscast and the direction and the dialog were just horrible.
DavidS - Mar 01, 2006 7:48:28 am PST #729 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
but they were so miscast
Who is your ideal casting for it? Feel free to roam back in time since you don't think it's been done definitively.
tommyrot - Mar 01, 2006 7:49:57 am PST #730 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I can't read about Wuthering Heights without thinking of the semaphore version.
Voice Over : And now for the very first time on the silver screen comes the film from two books which once shocked a generation. From Emily Brontë's 'Wuthering Heights' and from the 'International Guide to Semaphore Code'. Twentieth Century Vole presents 'The Semaphore Version of Wuthering Heights'.
(Caption on screen: 'THE SEMAPHORE VERSION OF WUTHERING HEIGHTS' Film: appropriate film music throughout. Heathcliffe in close-up profile, his hair is blowing in the wind, he looks intense. Cut to close-up Catherine also in profile, with hair streaming in wind. As if they are 1ooking into each other's eyes. Pull out to reveal, on very long zoom, that they are each on the top of separate small hills, in rolling countryside. Heathcliffe produces two semaphore flags from behind him, and waves them.)