movie: northanger abbey
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slashababy stuff to go through entirely; the library of moria for legolas/gimli and merry/pippin; a bunch of star wars links i saved months ago.
watched northanger abbey last night. it was adorable and a very good adaptation of one of my favorite austens, although it sadly lost many of henry tilney's best lines. he's my favorite austen hero just because he's so silly and witty. unfortunately mom fell asleep through most of the beginning. the casting was excellent. the costumes were charming, and there was this scene in the BATHS themselves at bath which thrilled my regency-loving heart to its core--to have a visual at last, you know. it was bizarre, too. everyone was bathing in what looked like brown linen gowns. oh, that scene wasn't really in the book, i don't think. and i do think they made isabella and john thorpe somewhat more sinister than they were, but they were going for the gothic air. it's quite an achievement considering how much northanger abbey, as a novel about novels, depends on its omniscient narrator. it was obviously an eighties movie--the low tech of the credits just sort of drawn onto the film in white. and the soundtrack, which reminded me of the soundtrack to labyrinth rather (no bowie, alas--it was all instrumental, except for that choral music that sounds like moaning. it was very gothic.)
slashababy stuff to go through entirely; the library of moria for legolas/gimli and merry/pippin; a bunch of star wars links i saved months ago. watched northanger abbey last night. it was adorable and a very good adaptation of one of my favorite austens, although it sadly lost many of henry tilney's best lines. he's my favorite austen hero just because he's so silly and witty. unfortunately mom fell asleep through most of the beginning. the casting was excellent. the costumes were charming, and there was this scene in the BATHS themselves at bath which thrilled my regency-loving heart to its core--to have a visual at last, you know. it was bizarre, too. everyone was bathing in what looked like brown linen gowns. oh, that scene wasn't really in the book, i don't think. and i do think they made isabella and john thorpe somewhat more sinister than they were, but they were going for the gothic air. it's quite an achievement considering how much northanger abbey, as a novel about novels, depends on its omniscient narrator. it was obviously an eighties movie--the low tech of the credits just sort of drawn onto the film in white. and the soundtrack, which reminded me of the soundtrack to labyrinth rather (no bowie, alas--it was all instrumental, except for that choral music that sounds like moaning. it was very gothic.)
