With... Adam Sargant
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It's our last episode of series 1!!! Expect ghost, ghouls and lots of
laughs as we round off the series with Adam Sargant, AKA Haunted Haworth.
We'll be...
2 months ago
Stevens re-read the book five times. [...]This half of BrontëBlog thinks it's a very positive thing for an actor to say as it shows respect for the author, but said author should be respected regardless of whether he's dead or alive. We don't like to think that - had he been playing the Brontës - he wouldn't have paid any attention to what the author had written. Perhaps that's the problem with current adaptations which go awry, the fact that respect is not part of them because the author can't raise an eyebrow.
"I wouldn't necessarily do it for every adaptation but I think it was useful in this case. With this, they complemented each other and it was such a beautiful, complex book. I wanted to be very faithful to it, especially as Alan was still alive. It's not like Dickens or Bronte." (Michael Idato)
The second section, set during Dara’s childhood, is narrated by Dara’s father, who has a strange fascination with Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) and shares Dodgson’s creepy interest in young girls. Dara’s meeting with Edward dominates part three, which mirrors the plot of Jane Eyre, and the final part, reminiscent of Great Expectations, is told mainly from Abigail’s college-era point of view.I Want to Suck Your Blood Has been rereading Wuthering Heights and writes a lengthy post on the book. Pensamentos de uma batata transgênica writes about several film adaptations of Jane Eyre in Portuguese. And finally, Hayden Thorne reviews The Master of Seacliff by Max Pierce.
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