Diana Rigg was just about perfect as Mrs. Danvers. I think I disliked - almost loathed Max, who was supposed to be romantic - was that he married Rebecca to achieve the perfect hostess/mistress for Manderly and then, when she was just that, despised her for being just that. After her death, he then married this naive young thing - in the book she never had a name - who adored him but was not up to being what he'd married Rebecca for.
I believe that's my hey. Hey!
Xander ,'Storyteller'
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Toddson - Oct 21, 2020 9:00:17 am PDT #924 of 2196
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
amyparker - Oct 21, 2020 9:02:09 am PDT #925 of 2196
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
Vonnie, the Times reviewer also said "Why did they not just plunk Kristen Scott Thomas down in the middle of the screen and call the show Mrs. Danvers? I would watch the hell out of that!"
Scrappy - Oct 21, 2020 9:20:51 am PDT #926 of 2196
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I always hated the line from end of the film when Max says "You've lost that funny lost look I loved so well." He loved that she looked LOST? Poor her. Even though Olivier was delicious during that era.
Atropa - Oct 21, 2020 9:40:54 am PDT #927 of 2196
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Vonnie, the Times reviewer also said "Why did they not just plunk Kristen Scott Thomas down in the middle of the screen and call the show Mrs. Danvers? I would watch the hell out of that!"
I want THAT show.
Much like Wuthering Heights, I never thought of Rebecca as romantic. Lurid mysteries with some romance elements (and totally unlikeable male romantic figures), but not Epic Sweeping Romance.
(Maxim is a weak-willed patsy with no spine. No one can change my mind.)
(Yes, my favorite character in the book is Mrs. Danvers.)
EpicTangent - Oct 21, 2020 10:29:08 am PDT #928 of 2196
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
There was a miniseries version from 1979 that I saw on PBS. Jeremy Brett was Maxim. That was my first Rebecca, and my one true Rebecca.
Toddson - Oct 21, 2020 10:30:55 am PDT #929 of 2196
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Actually, I'd be more likely to watch Mrs. Danvers - with Kristin Scott Thomas or someone equally good - than a(nother) remake of Rebecca. It would be interesting to see the story from her viewpoint.
Toddson - Oct 21, 2020 11:29:39 am PDT #930 of 2196
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
But I WAS reminded of a Wuthering Heights with social distancing.
chrismg - Oct 22, 2020 6:28:40 am PDT #931 of 2196
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
Given that they're setting the story in the Second Age, my first thought was "decadent Numenorean orgy."
Vonnie K - Oct 22, 2020 7:52:57 am PDT #932 of 2196
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
On a more promising note, a glowing review from Vanity Fair of a Netflix miniseries that's dropping tomorrow, The Queen's Gambit: [link]
It stars Anya Taylor-Joy as a chess prodigy in 1950's Kentucky, who's one of the handful of young up-and-comers whose work I'm always willing to check out (also see: Florence Pugh, LaKeith Standfield.)
Toddson - Oct 22, 2020 8:53:55 am PDT #933 of 2196
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I read the book - it was very good. One of the few written by a man about a young woman that struck me as being more realistic than most such.