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Both protagonists have Narcissistic Personality Disorder and are always gaslighting and manipulating.
They didn’t like confrontation and discord.
And to her father, when she implied that he was responsible for Barrow wanting to end his life.
I think he was a creep.
Re The Birds: Du Maurier’s novella is quite different from AH’s film; he made up most of it.
I think Melanie was being diplomatic. She knew the mother didn’t want her there. I think she would have liked to accept the invite but she declined because of the mother.
And the mother didn’t like any of the women her son showed interest in. Remember, she did the same thing to the school teacher.
I think you need to look a little more deeply into the characters. Maybe you’re the one reacting to Melanie as if you had a chip on your shoulder from girls in high school?
She attended the sentencing with him today. Don’t forget what a sicko her father was, having sex for years with his eldest daughter, Mackenzie.
There have been live versions of The Sound of Music on both sides of the pond. (UK version was so much better.)
I think it’s far from perfect, but still delightful and a huge undertaking and accomplishment for the period.
Definitely early 19th c.
You’re probably right. I like that the 1965 tv version set it in the middle ages — more “magical” that way imo.
I think she’s very good. I also think the production very different. It was much more a musical comedy than the ‘65 version, e.g. “Impossible” is playing for laughs more than emotion. It also seems to concentrate more on musical performance than portraying the emotions of the story, as seen in “In My Own Little Corner.” And It’s a bulky production, with repeated reprises of songs.
TV was still in a very early age. This production was groundbreaking for its time, but I sort of think that over the next few years Rogers and Hammerstein gained perspective and thought of ways to improve what they created in 1957. Restructuring the story, adding scenes, cutting the fat, honing the central moments
Cinderella is the rose. Even though the fairy tale is set in an imaginary Kingdom, imo it’s obviously representative of England. Cinderella is an “English rose.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_rose_(epithet)
The slipper is the mechanism for the prince to find her again.
George IV
That’s what Richard Curtis does so well. His films and tv shows are special because he develops the supporting characters to be an important part of the whole picture; they’re not prsent merely to drive the action for the main storyline.
He was drawn to her because he saw in her some of the qualities he lacked, and likely wished he possessed. She put herself out there for her career and was very successful, she climbed the fence to sneak into the private garden, she turned the tables on the men in the restaurant who were exchanging assumptions and insults about her, and finally, she was “just a girl standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.”
He was perfect. At the time of this film he had already played an awkward, dithering character in another film, and nailed it.
Anna springs the kiss on him in the bookshop because she’s attracted to him, so he has to be handsome (and technically, he absolutely should be more handsome than Alec Baldwin).
Well knock yourself out then. Enjoy!
You don’t even have to sink that low. Imo it’s miles better than anything in the Star Wars prequel trilogy.
I disagree. But you won’t care why so I won’t bother
He made Hoover an Italian stereotype.
He sounds more like Rose than JFK.
Oliver Reed played the fat musketeer in the 70s, although his role was Athos, not Porthos.