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  • Flosshilde
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 7988

    #46
    Jed Mercurio [the adapter & director] says: "Lady Chatterley's Lover is a novel that constitutes a milestone of English literature. I'm immensely excited by this opportunity to dramatise its iconic themes in a fresh and original way."

    Oh dear

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    • Eine Alpensinfonie
      Host
      • Nov 2010
      • 20570

      #47
      If you go to Jamaica Inn today, it's really rather upmarket.

      Looking for places to stay in North Cornwall? Jamaica Inn offers B&B in Bodmin with accommodation in an 18th century coaching inn on Cornwall’s Bodmin Moor

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      • DracoM
        Host
        • Mar 2007
        • 12960

        #48
        And let's hear it for Kirkby Lonsdale!! After all, it's in Cornwall, isn't it?
        Erm...............?

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        • Eine Alpensinfonie
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 20570

          #49
          Kirkby Lonsdale? A very dine Booths supermarket there with excellent staff.

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          • gingerjon
            Full Member
            • Sep 2011
            • 165

            #50
            It's useful that the BBC can blame the sound quality for the loss of about 1/3 of their viewers throughout a 3 part series. They should look instead to how they completely went against the spirit and excitement of the source novel (I have no issue with aspects being changed as nobody wants a carbon copy) and instead created a dull, laboured, cliche-ridden bucket of plop.

            (Incidentally, grew to really like The Musketeers having not enjoyed the first episode at all. Should have been a Saturday tea-time programme though.)
            The best music is the music that persuades us there is no other music in the world-- Alex Ross

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            • gingerjon
              Full Member
              • Sep 2011
              • 165

              #51
              Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
              If you go to Jamaica Inn today, it's really rather upmarket.

              http://www.jamaicainn.co.uk/hotel
              I've stayed there with the family ginger. It's really not upmarket!
              The best music is the music that persuades us there is no other music in the world-- Alex Ross

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              • mercia
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 8920

                #52
                recently changed hands ?
                Jamaica Inn, immortalised in a Daphne du Maurier, is sold to a Surrey businessman for more than £2m.


                can't say I remember the 1983 version
                Last edited by mercia; 25-04-14, 11:03.

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                • Flosshilde
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 7988

                  #53
                  Originally posted by gingerjon View Post
                  (I have no issue with aspects being changed as nobody wants a carbon copy)
                  If you're dramatising a novel, you should keep to what the author wrote. If not, it's an 'original drama with characters and scenes loosely based on the novel ...' .

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                  • Flosshilde
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 7988

                    #54
                    Originally posted by gingerjon View Post
                    I've stayed there with the family ginger. It's really not upmarket!
                    What's the 'family ginger'? Cat? Bread? Man? Beer? Mis-type for 'silver'?

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                    • Eine Alpensinfonie
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 20570

                      #55
                      Originally posted by gingerjon View Post
                      I've stayed there with the family ginger. It's really not upmarket!
                      Compared with its literary setting, it is...

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                      • gingerjon
                        Full Member
                        • Sep 2011
                        • 165

                        #56
                        [QUOTE=mercia;395543]recently changed hands ?
                        Jamaica Inn, immortalised in a Daphne du Maurier, is sold to a Surrey businessman for more than £2m.


                        Looks like it has - and probably just as well. It was a little frayed when we were there but still good fun. You could do a lot more with the place though.
                        The best music is the music that persuades us there is no other music in the world-- Alex Ross

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                        • gingerjon
                          Full Member
                          • Sep 2011
                          • 165

                          #57
                          Originally posted by Flosshilde View Post
                          If not, it's an 'original drama with characters and scenes loosely based on the novel ...' .
                          Either way, this adaptation was, to my eyes, a failure.
                          The best music is the music that persuades us there is no other music in the world-- Alex Ross

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                          • kernelbogey
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 5736

                            #58
                            Originally posted by James Wonnacott View Post
                            I don't normally watch television (haven't got one)....
                            Me too, so I also had a dip into iPlayer:

                            What I did manage to understand of the other actors was in BBC Cornish- a strange dialect, nothing like that spoken in this part of Cornwall.
                            It seemed to me they were speaking a Central Casting kind of all-purpose Wessex dialect. But the speech of folk in Cornwall (I grew up there, and it was all around me) has distinctive vowel sounds that are unlike those of Devon, Somerset, Dorset et al. As importantly, IMV, was the failure of the script to provide language for the actors to speak that could reproduce the distinctive rhythms and intonation of Cornish dialect. To me this is so odd - and indeed rather cheapskate - when so much has been spent on locations, costumes and props.

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                            • Dave2002
                              Full Member
                              • Dec 2010
                              • 18009

                              #59
                              Has the sound been fixed in the iPlayer versions? I gather there were big problems with the broadcast.

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                              • french frank
                                Administrator/Moderator
                                • Feb 2007
                                • 30249

                                #60
                                It seems there's a disagreement between production and sound technicians.
                                It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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