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Loved Letters to Juliet in which film the old lovers were reunited. Vanessa lost both daughter Natasha Richardson, in 2009 and her sister Lynn and brother Corin in 2010. It is good that she and Franco Nero were together when she had to pass through so much sorrow.
No more than in any other ethnicity. Your prejudice is showing.
Loved Vladek Sheybal as the Bashaw. His palace is under fire, he has just been taken prisoner, and he after fastidiously throwing aside from his couch, the arm of the last of his guards who has been shot dead, continues eating apricots, (I think), staring at the captain and calmly remarking, "You are a very dangerous man, Captain, and your, President Roosevelt is mad."
This is a fairytale starring Barbie. In a fairytale, anything can happen. The reality of our world does not apply. Fixed it!
Old post, but I will answer anyway. At least two differences: Katsumi was pregnant, She was out and came home finding Joe Kelly dead, then she kills herself. Another was the way it ended very differently from the film. Don't know if you want to know the ending: so: <spoiler>Hana-Ogi does not leave with Gruver. She is unilke Katsumi, proud of being Japanese, she does not want to go go America. She loves her dancing career, and looks to her future in old age as the respected dance teacher of the Takarazuka troupe. She loves Gruver, but in their present, storing up the memories for when she ls old. Hana-Ogi leaves for Tokyo, leaving behind a handwritten message that she is going to Tokyo and that he should go back to America. Gruver grieves her loss and that of Kelly and Katsumi, but recognizes that he can no longer defy his superiors, without the reason that he had done so, recognizing that the army is his future</spoiler>
That puzzled me, too. Maybe Father Malone is High Church Episcopalian/Anglican. They have retained much of the trappings of Roman Catholicism. Their priests, also called "Father", are permitted to marry.
Alternatively, perhaps Father Malone converted and was ordained in the Roman Catholic Church. Even though his grandfather had to have been married, Father Malone is not.
He's also Portuguese. Sometimes it is hard to distinguish a Sephardic Jewish person from a person of Mediterranean or European Latin ancestry.
marbleann,
I know this post is old, but I am responding because I was glad to see that someone else saw the same resemblance that I did to The Ransom of Red Chief. The story line was very similar: kidnappers who take a boy who in turn makes their lives so miserable they request that the parents take him back. The parents reply that they will agree to take the boy back if the kidnappers pay them 200 dollars. A movie was made of the short story and it was hilarious I have only seen a little of this one which of course is a horror movie, but I also think that the producers of this film did take part of their inspiration from The Ransom of Red Chief.
It was van Ruyven's web. He was Vermeer's's main patron in this story. In reality he was probably not the only one. The family was dependent on his commissions for their living. The Vermeers and their dependents were the flies in his web. He had the power to give or withhold commissions that provided income.
I am a realist as Hana-Ogi is in the book. Look at the women in this movie. Katsumi is a dutiful little wife who lives to please her man. He refuses for her to have any symbols of her religion in the house. When she covers her mouth with her hand in embarrassment, he berates her and remarks that it is easier to train a dog.
Gruver's girlfriend from back home is expected to marry him and become a good American wife like her mother.
I don't know if you have read the book, but racism is the main reason that Kelly is unable to take his Japanese wife home. I don't know if you were alive in the 1950s, but racism was alive and well. Mixed race children were not well accepted. The future I envision for Hana-Ogi as Gruver's wife is very likely. As she is, Hana-Ogi unlike Katsumi who remains in the lower class in which she was born, has worked her way up after being sold to a dance company by her poverty-stricken parents to a position of respect. When her dancing days are over, she will still be respected as a teacher.
And then there is Gruver, who shows all the earmarks of being the typical American husband of the time expecting his wife to wait on him hand and foot.
Hana-Ogi chose the better part,in the book at least.
Atryeu was in the bog, waist deep, almost overcome himself. He tried his best to pull Artax out. After Artax died, he sat at the edge of the bog, with the sadness pulling at him, and somehow found the strength to go on. He is only a kid.
I remember Pasha telling Kamarovsky at the restaurant that he was 26 and had no 'amorous' experience, and that Lara who was sitting beside him was '17, and that speaks for itself.', meaning that her age was proof that she was inexperienced. It was a shock to him, that she had in fact had amorous experience, and that his lack of experience would be a disadvantage when they married. His anger and hurt were also over the fact that, she had not kept herself pure for him as he had for her. He expected that they would learn together after they married.
Tonya, her children, and her parents were deported. I think they went to Paris. Zhivago said he would never leave Russia.
The balalaika is a family heirloom. Maybe Yuri, being a doctor, knew that Lara carried his child, and being unsure of his own fate, wanted to be sure that the instrument remained with the family. Or maybe knowing that Tonya had consigned the balalaika to Lara's care, and she would care for it because it had been his mother's, that maybe she would somehow contact Tonya and return the instrument to the Zhivago family.
As it turns out, Lara gives birth to Yuri's daughter, Tonya. In the last scene as Tonya II walks away from Yevgraf, he calls out asking if she can play the balalaika that is slung over her shoulder, and the boyfriend answers "Can she play!!!" So yes, although not played by a character in the movie, a character does know how to play it. When Tonya answers that no one taught her to plai, Yevgraf calls out, "It's a gift", apparently a family talent that has been passed down. Although we never see Yuri strumming the balalaika, it is likely that he can play. We just don't see him in many situations where he would play.
In my opinion, the balalaika is a lovely romantic touch, and yes, a symbol of continuity, of a family's survival in spite of the chaos that Russia is in with families being uprooted and scattered.
I understand from reading other posts, that in the novel, Lara's second daughter is only ever referred to as 'the Girl'. i am going to try to read the book.
Yes, at least in the movie. Yuri and Tonya are shown on a balcony waving as the army passes by; she is holding a baby. The scene shifts to the country where Pavel is leaving Lara to join the army. She is holding a baby. Yuri's brother narrating the scene says something to the effect that men in happy marriages do not leave their families to join the army. The child with Lara and Yuri at Varykino must be that daughter. Her name is Katya. When Lara leaves Varykino with Katya, that is the last we see of her. I don't know if that is indicated in the book as I haven't read it.
Lara names her daughter with Yuri, Tonya, like Yuri's wife. Again, I haven't read the book, but I saw a comment that said that Lara and Tonya had met, Lara having assisted at the birth of one of Tonya's children, and that they liked each other. The letter that Yuri receives from Tonya at Varykino informing him that she and the family are being deported and that she has given birth to their son also acknowledges Lara, whom she opines is a good person, and acknowledgement that she knows that Lara and Yuri are together. She has visited Lara before she had to leave Varykino and left the balalaika with her.
Lara names her child with Yuri for Tonya, an acknowledgement that only the circumstances of separation from each spouse have resulted in them being together, their love for each other notwithstanding. Lara never forgets that she and Yuri are married to other people.
Until I started watching this series, I knew little of Vikings. Once I started watching, I was inspired to learn more about them. I really don't care about how true it is because it is partially based on legends.
I just didn't care for Lagertha's murder of Aslaugh.
However Lagertha's funeral was impressive and the reunion was beautiful. <spoiler>She and Ragnar dissolved into stardust.</spoiler>
The jury is still out on whether shieldmaidens even existed in Viking culture.
The finding of weapons in the graves of a few women could also be an indication of high status according to anthropologists. All women were expected to be as you call Aslaugh, "brood mares' to bear and raise children to be a support to their parents in life which was hard and needed all the hands that people could produce to do the work of living, and to care for them in old age. There was no safety net or welfare.
You are too wrapped up in an image created by a screenwriter based on cloudy legends. If you take the trouble to read up on the position of women in Viking society, you will find that they held the traditional roles of bearers of children, keepers of home and hearth, and supports to their husbands.
If the purpose of the exploration was to found new settlements, women did accompany their men, as they would be needed to to fulfill their traditional roles.
TV drama is not real life.
Now there is a group called Scythians, nomadic tribes that existed from 900 to 200 B.C. They originated in Siberia and and, thriving advanced from China to the Black Sea. Graves of female warriors, one of three generations of warrior women have been discovered from 2500 B. C. in Russia. Horses and their accoutrements as well as weapons were found and the skeleton of one was buried in position as though riding a horse. They were buried with the rites and equipment accorded to Scythian men
About one-third of Scythian women whose remains have been found to date were buried with weapons. Many sported war wounds. It is likely that the Scythian warrior women were the inspiration for the Amazons mentioned by Herodotus, who came to Troy to offer their assistance to King Priam in his fight against the Greeks.
CORRECTION:
Like it or not, women were expected to bear as many children as possible to help support the family and the elder generation. Feminism did not exist.
When after the death of their daughter, Lagertha became barren, Ragnar did what many another male in history has done: he found a fertile woman. In such situations, the man often divorced the barren wife. Did you ever read about how many wives Henry divorced or beheaded because he didn't get the wished for son? In my lifetime the Shah of Iran divorced Queen Soraya (reluctantly; he loved her) because she was barren. He eventually married Farah Diba who bore him two sons and two daughters.
I don't remember Ragnar telling Aslaug he was married, not that it would have mattered. It was Ragnar who chose to pursue Aslaug, and who later slept with Kwenthrith. Viking culture's sexual morality was not ours, and you cannot view the customs of another time through modern lenses.
When Ragnar brought Aslaug back with him, Aslaug seemed perfectly fine with the position of second wife, and seemed to defer to Lagertha. Ragnar seemed to propose Aslaug as a second wife for the purposes of producing more children It was Lagertha who couldn't accept that Ragnar needed more than one son. Aslaug gave him four.
She and Lagertha both went against the custom of their times: it was Lagertha's choice to leave Ragnar when she refused to accept a second wife, as she should have been expected to. Aslaug, going against the custom of exposing a baby who was born disabled, protected and raised the boy with love, sending him to Floki in time to be educated in Viking culture and religion.
Lagertha slept her way to every position she held after leaving Ragnar.
Aslaug was a better person in every way, even looking after and counseling Bjorn and his wounded wife, while Lagertha slept her way to a title. The only time Aslaug slept with someone else was with Harbard the Wanderer representing himself as Odin who had the power to relieve the pain of her crippled young boy Ivar. What almost happened to her two children but for Siggy's rescuing them, happened while she was sleeping with a man who presented himself as a god to help the suffering of her child. After she slept with him, she was very formal indicating that the relationship was only in exchange for relief for her son's pain. She was left to preside alone over a settlement that under her care prospered without the help of either Lagertha, who didn't seem to care what happened to it after she left, and Ragnar who probably didn't love her, (love didn't have the importance in marriage back then as it does in modern times. It had more to do with survival), but did expect her to hold his place for him in Kattegat. Lagertha killed the mother of Ragnar's four sons. It would only be fitting if she has to pay for that at the hands of one of the sons. If I remember correctly, the seer predicted that.
Yes Ivar is a psycho mostly because of the way he as a cripple, first coddled by his mother, and later ridiculed by is brothers, was treated in a society that had no place for a disabled would-be warrior. There really was a good practical reason not only in Viking culture, for exposing a baby that would grow to need constant care, endangering the survival of the entire settlement. In some cultures, a couple only produced or kept two children because each parent, if required to flee, could only carry one child apiece.
Yes, maybe according to the custom of the time, Aslaug should not have saved Ivar from being exposed, but having him educated by Floki who is the keeper of Viking culture and tradition, was what a responsible noble Viking woman who also feared that that culture and religion was endangered by contact with Christianity, and Islam would want for her child.
Hirst panders to modern sensibilities, especially rabid feminism with Lagertha.
You seem a bit rabid yourself. It is only a TV series.
Yes, poor woman . I think she finally wished to live in peace with her memories of Ragnar and the life they had in the beginning.
Still, at some point, she will have to be written out. She, Floki (if he is still slive) and Rollo are all that are left of the elder generation. The stories now belong to the young ones, and even some of them are getting on toward middle age, Bjorn for instance.
I suppose that Emma Tregirls, daughter of Tholly, was a bit of an outsider and exotic to Sam. She also has a mind of her own. Sam is attracted to Emma and though he couches that attraction in conventional terms, it is physical. He hopes to convert her to Methodism and marry her to legitimize his strong physical desire.
If I remember, in the novels Emma was a buxom brunette. She also had a reputation mostly undeserved as a loose woman. While she admitted to permitting liberties: necking and petting, she told Sam that "No man has had me". She is principled in her own way, and though she comes to love Sam deeply, she is clear-eyed and realistic. She 'could never conform to Sam's devout Methodism. no matter how much she loves him.
Emma leaves the village and takes a job elsewhere as a housemaid, eventually sadly asking a friend to write a letter to Sam (Emma is illiterate) informing him that she will marry a footman who is employed where she is who loves her and with whom she sees a chance of a solid marriage of equals.
Rosina Hoblyn is a sweet biddable girl whose advantages as a wife, Sam comes to realize, and he eventually marries her.