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Thread: I'm already annoyed by this Vanity Fair adaptation.

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    I'm already annoyed by this Vanity Fair adaptation.

    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.
    Last edited by Burney; 08-31-2018 at 11:16 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
    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 Cartman
    'Seems that I was busy doing something close to nothing
    But different than the day before'

    'Met a dwarf that was no good, dressed like Little Red Riding Hood'

    'Now you're unemployed, all non-void
    Walkin' round like you're Pretty Boy Floyd'

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    Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
    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.
    Never read that British sh!t. Who is it, Dickens?

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    Quote Originally Posted by eastgermanautos View Post
    Never read that British sh!t. Who is it, Dickens?
    Dickens - It's Thomas Hardy, you colonial numpty.
    When I was young and full of rage
    I hated Tottenham to the core
    But now I've reached a gentler age
    I hate the fùckers even more.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat View Post
    Dickens - It's Thomas Hardy, you colonial numpty.
    William Makepeace Thackeray - as well you know.

    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat View Post
    Dickens - It's Thomas Hardy, you colonial numpty.
    He's an ex-colonoial numpty, 71. Or 'rebel numpty' should you prefer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
    William Makepeace Thackeray - as well you know.

    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.
    Pìss, pot, all, same. Having suffered this sort of shíte at Eng Lit 'A' Level, I care not one jot for it now.

    Except for Lark Rise to Candleford. That was excellent.

    And not a BME in sight
    When I was young and full of rage
    I hated Tottenham to the core
    But now I've reached a gentler age
    I hate the fùckers even more.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
    William Makepeace Thackeray - as well you know.

    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.
    His house in Tunbridge Wells is now a rather fine restaurant - or at least it was 15 years ago. wd wmt.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
    His house in Tunbridge Wells is now a rather fine restaurant - or at least it was 15 years ago. wd wmt.
    I seem to remember having eaten there many moons ago.

    Didn't he also have something to do with the Post Office?

    And he wrote Barry Lyndon, which is very underrated.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat View Post
    Pìss, pot, all, same. Having suffered this sort of shíte at Eng Lit 'A' Level, I care not one jot for it now.

    Except for Lark Rise to Candleford. That was excellent.

    And not a BME in sight
    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.

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