JAMaica INN

[Flosshilde]

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

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

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

http://www.jamaicainn.co.uk/hotel

[DracoM]

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

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

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

[gingerjon]

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.)

[gingerjon]

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!

[mercia]

recently changed hands ?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-26415309

can't say I remember the 1983 version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5DhbjCvPsc

[Flosshilde]

(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 ...' .

[Flosshilde]

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'?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I've stayed there with the family ginger. It's really not upmarket!

Compared with its literary setting, it is...

[gingerjon]

[QUOTE=mercia;395543]recently changed hands ?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-26415309

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.

[gingerjon]

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.

[kernelbogey]

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.

[Dave2002]

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

[french frank]

It seems there's a disagreement between production and sound technicians.