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selenakIf it will take as long to get released in Germany as the Death of Stalin did, I'll see this at the earlierst half a year after it's release, but still: hooray for Armando Iannoccui-directed Dickens!
Mind you: the trailer emphasizes the comedy and satire, so I expect the movie will, too, but then Death of Stalin had plenty of comedy without excluding the disturbing evil at all, so I still expect the Murdstones to be awful. I've seen at least once version of David Copperfield which cut the entire Steerforth/Little Emily subplot (Steerforth shows only up briefly in David's school days), so given the lack of Peggotys & Steerforth in the trailer, I wondered whether this might be the case here as well; checking the cast list, though, tells me they are included. (Steerforth is Anoeurin Barnard.) By casting Ben Wishaw as Uriah Heep, though, Iannucci has all but ensured David/Uriah hate sex will overtake David/Steerforth as the fandom's main slash pairing at last. ;)
(Maybe there'll be a revived interest in David Copperfield at this year's Yuletide? Too late for me to benefit, though, I already wrote my story.
Peter Capaldi is Mr. Micawber. Would the Doctor pose as Mr. Micawber for undercover reasons? Of course he would, but the Doctor being a canonical Dickens fan is a big of a crossover impediment there.
Meanwhile, Yuletide nominations are a go. I did mine already; if you have no idea what to nominate yet, feel free to nominate either some Lost in Space (new version) or I Medici characters that aren't Contessina, Lorenzo (Il Magnifico, not his uncle), Lucrezia (Tornabuoni, not Donati) or Giuliano, since those four are the ones I've already nominated. Or you could go for some 18th Century Europeans with messed up relations and great political drama?
Mind you: the trailer emphasizes the comedy and satire, so I expect the movie will, too, but then Death of Stalin had plenty of comedy without excluding the disturbing evil at all, so I still expect the Murdstones to be awful. I've seen at least once version of David Copperfield which cut the entire Steerforth/Little Emily subplot (Steerforth shows only up briefly in David's school days), so given the lack of Peggotys & Steerforth in the trailer, I wondered whether this might be the case here as well; checking the cast list, though, tells me they are included. (Steerforth is Anoeurin Barnard.) By casting Ben Wishaw as Uriah Heep, though, Iannucci has all but ensured David/Uriah hate sex will overtake David/Steerforth as the fandom's main slash pairing at last. ;)
(Maybe there'll be a revived interest in David Copperfield at this year's Yuletide? Too late for me to benefit, though, I already wrote my story.
Peter Capaldi is Mr. Micawber. Would the Doctor pose as Mr. Micawber for undercover reasons? Of course he would, but the Doctor being a canonical Dickens fan is a big of a crossover impediment there.
Meanwhile, Yuletide nominations are a go. I did mine already; if you have no idea what to nominate yet, feel free to nominate either some Lost in Space (new version) or I Medici characters that aren't Contessina, Lorenzo (Il Magnifico, not his uncle), Lucrezia (Tornabuoni, not Donati) or Giuliano, since those four are the ones I've already nominated. Or you could go for some 18th Century Europeans with messed up relations and great political drama?
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Date: 2019-10-03 06:19 am (UTC)As Orwell pointed out, some of Dickens' characters have been absorbed so thoroughly into the public consciousness that they live outside their novels of origin, being familiar to people who haven't read the books (or these days seen a tv version) still. David Copperfield definitely boasts of several. (Like Uriah Heep or Micawber.) When I watched Dickensian (the multi Dickens crossover tv show) some years ago, I was surprised none of DC's characters showed up!
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Date: 2019-10-03 04:09 am (UTC)It never stopped the Harry Potter fans, so why should it stop the Dickens fans? Also, Dev Patel looks great in costume!
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