The actress playing Becky Sharp is not a redhead (which is a key trait of the character in the book). This, to me, is depriving ginger actresses of work and highly racially insensitive.
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The actress playing Becky Sharp is not a redhead (which is a key trait of the character in the book). This, to me, is depriving ginger actresses of work and highly racially insensitive.
'Gingers have no souls' Eric CartmanQuote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Never read that British sh!t. Who is it, Dickens?Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Dickens :rolleyes: - It's Thomas Hardy, you colonial numpty.Quote:
Originally Posted by eastgermanautos
William Makepeace Thackeray - as well you know. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by 71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat
Anyway, the wife and I had a bet on how long it would take before the first historically-unlikely black character appeared. I had five minutes (this not being the BBC) and she took 2 minutes. Lo and behold, on 1 minute, 59 seconds and 57 hundredths of a second, there was a black chick at Becky and Amelia's school.
Fine result for the wife, there.
He's an ex-colonoial numpty, 71. Or 'rebel numpty' should you prefer. :nod:Quote:
Originally Posted by 71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat
Pěss, pot, all, same. Having suffered this sort of shíte at Eng Lit 'A' Level, I care not one jot for it now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Except for Lark Rise to Candleford. That was excellent.
And not a BME in sight :hehe: :-|
His house in Tunbridge Wells is now a rather fine restaurant - or at least it was 15 years ago. wd wmt.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I seem to remember having eaten there many moons ago. :rubchin:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Didn't he also have something to do with the Post Office?
And he wrote Barry Lyndon, which is very underrated.
There would be if they did an adaptation today. Some of the characters would simply turn up as black as your boot and there'd be not a hint of an explanation of how they got to late 19th Century rural Oxfordshire or why none of the other characters ever makes any reference to their pigmentation.Quote:
Originally Posted by 71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat
He lives in Kensal Green now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I had to read The Trumpet Major by Hardy at school. :-( Dreadful experience.Quote:
Originally Posted by 71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat
I think 'lives' may be pushing it. As that other underrated Victorian man of letters Chesterton put it:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
"For there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen,
Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green."
Hardy's great though, as a rule. The Mayor of Casterbridge is a triumph.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
I had to read Canterbury Tales at school
Couldn't make head nor tale of it
:-(
Downstairs used to be a casual bistro-type affair, which was excellent. But I'm thinking back to the mid-90s now :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Of Thackeray and the Post Office know I nothing.
That's the opening line of a poem if ever I wrote one.
My take on Hardy is that he's a wildly overrated novelist (although beloved of school curricula by virtue of his plots and themes having all the nuance of a sledgehammer to the nuts) and a wildly underrated poet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
I feel for you, A. Don't even get me started on Austen, Shakespeare or Chaucer...although at least Chaucer had some smut.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
In 'translation' or in the original middle English?Quote:
Originally Posted by Viva Prat Vegas
I can still recite the first 12 lines of the Prologue in Middle English. You'd be amazed how few people ask me to do so, though. :-(
'Twas in Middle English
Given the book to read over the Summer Holidays in preparation for the start of A Level English Lit
Fretted over failing to comprehend the text whilst on a 2 week trip abroad and was then told in September that it didn't matter whether none of us had even looked at the book
Choc full of apostrophes, I seem to recall
If you weren't taught the pronunciation, it was criminal to give you it to read, since you can't appreciate the meter and rhymes of the poetry without them. How to put kids off great literature in one easy lesson. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Viva Prat Vegas
Much better to give you the very accessible Neville Coghill translation first and then give you the original.
Rests.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Not far from WH Smith and Winston Churchill's young child, ISTR. the latter was quite hard to find.
Funny name to give a kid.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
Right. We sorted you lot out at the Battle of Yorktown!Quote:
Originally Posted by WES
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Originally Posted by Burney
I was about to say above, fine to have a black person in the cast, just as long as every new character they met was completely shocked by their presence. I suspect this wasn't the case.