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Modern Classics of World Literature (currently disc. "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck)
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Esperanza_Nueva
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Feb '03
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5/16/07 4:54pm
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RE: Modern Classics of World Literature (currently discussing Wuthering Heights)
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Wuthering Heights...I just don't know. When it comes right down to it, I think I need to give it another try. The writing was, of course, beautiful, but I just hated all the characters! One of my pet peeves is a heroine who falls sick because of a broken heart or "emotional distress" so I immediately disliked Catherine. I didn't really feel any sympathy for Heathcliffe either. I realize these aren't necessarily supposed to be likable or sympathetic characters, but I just couldn't get invested in them. Maybe part of the problem, though, was that I had no idea what to expect when I started reading, so I guess I should give it another chance someday.
On a side note, I had heard rumors awhile back that Johnny Depp was going to star as Heathcliffe in a film adaptation. Not sure if that's still going to happen, though.
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StarDude
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5/17/07 1:17am
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Wuthering Heights is my favorite novel. Of the adaptations made, Ralph Fiennes is my favorite as Heathcliffe.
Did anyone here know that Shyamalan was approached to direct another film adaptation of Wuthering Heights that had (and to my knowledge, still has) Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie attached to star?
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Zaz
Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre
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Oct '98
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5/17/07 7:44am
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You're joking...I hope.
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StarDude
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5/17/07 2:34pm
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Nope. Shyamalan reread the novel and out of it came the period romance in The Village. Depp and Jolie are still attached as far as I know. Depp would make a good Heathcliffe, but Jolie is NOT Catherine.
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Zaz
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5/18/07 12:31pm
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Depp could do Heathcliff, but I agree re Jolie.
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NYCitygurl
Title: Manager of SFFBC, C&G, and NSWFF
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Date Posted:
5/19/07 6:55am
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I agree as well. She wouldn't be a good Catherine. If that happens, I won't be going to see that.
I couldn't really connect with either Catherine or Heathcliff, but I guess the point is that they're such extraordinary characters that mere mortals can't understand them. And also, this was told from the POV of a minor character (Nellie Dean) who didn't really like either of them to begin with, so we're clearly presented with her bias but not with their thoughts/feelings.
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NYCitygurl
Title: Manager of SFFBC, C&G, and NSWFF
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5/26/07 1:26pm
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And the third Bronte sister: Anne.
Agnes Grey
This is the story of a poor young woman who takes employment as a governness (much like Jane is her sister Charlotte's novel). The novel follows Agnes's journey as a governness for the Bloomfield and Murray families as she tries to teach spoiled children, and ends up teaching at a school she sets up and marrying a man who loves her.
Agnes Grey
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Zaz
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5/26/07 3:36pm
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This one I haven't read; she wrote at least one other novel, as I recall.
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NYCitygurl
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6/9/07 5:20pm
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The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas' classic is the story of D'Artagnan, a young man who wishes to become a musketeer in the service of the king of France, and his three friends, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. Together they save the honor of the queen and track down an execute the Milday de Winter for the assassinations of D'Argtagnan's beloved Contance and the Duke of Buckingham.
The Three Musketeers
I love this book, but even more than that I love the movie version with Keifer Sutherland as Athos, Oliver Platt as Porthos, and Charlie Sheen as Aramis. It's really funny, and a little happier (Louis and Anne actually love each other, and Contance and D'Artagnan get to be together at the end). Great movie.
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Zaz
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6/10/07 1:15pm
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There are literally dozens of movie versions, but the book is better than them all. Though my fave Dumas was always "The Count of Monte Cristo"
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NYCitygurl
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6/24/07 1:35pm
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I've only read the abridged versions of both of them, though I want to read the full ones. The thing I liked about this movie was that it was very happy: there was comedy, Constance didn't die and got her man, and Louis and Anne were together and happy at the end (though I realize that in real life -- at least from what I recall -- he was gay).
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Zaz
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6/24/07 1:41pm
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Louis XIII? He had at least one mistress, I think. And he and Anne had two children.
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NYCitygurl
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6/24/07 1:46pm
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Maybe I'm thinking of another Louis . . . but I think there was speculation that the kids weren't his.
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Zaz
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6/24/07 1:49pm
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Louis XIII didn't like women much, but he had reason; his mother, Marie de Medici was one of the most egregious, irritating bimbos ever.
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NYCitygurl
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6/24/07 2:24pm
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 The de Medici women were indeed . . . interesting, shall we say 
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