Hilary Mantell herself has an interesting rhythm/cadence/tone/ confidence to her speaking voice....she seems very pleased to be interviewed....pleased to be engaged....
Wolf Hall BBC2
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I have been given both books, and enjoyed Wolf Hall, but I've never got beyond the first couple of chapters of Bring Up the Bodies. Generally speaking I don't like books written in what I think is called the historical present ..." Josephine crosses the room and opens the curtains" -that sort of thing, so I had to persevere.
Things are beginning to pile up on my hard disc, what with the whole second series of The Fall, Broadchurch, and the wonderful Spiral. Next up are the two concurrent Russell Davies series, Cucumber and Banana, not to mention catch ups on University Challenge and Great Railway Journeys. Something will have to go !
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Originally posted by Ferretfancy View PostSomething will have to go !
Don't miss The Fall or Spiral...
Re Wolf Hall - saving it for a watch at the weekend. I have but haven't read the books, to my shame."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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I know I'll never read the novels, but as someone whose default setting is usually I don't do costume drama...
I thought the first episode was - fantastic television. Agree with everything Cal says...
Understated but compelling screen presence from Rylance, lovely softgrained, shadowy images; directing and scripting never drawing attention to themselves - all added up to a very deft, subtle and atmospheric visual and dramatic experience...
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I've just watched episode 1, and found it compelling viewing. Much has been said about the darkness; I didn't find that a problem. I enjoyed Pryce's Wolsey, a great change from the portrayal in "A Man for all Seasons".
I second Cali's comments on Spiral and The Fall. I have recorded episode 2 of Broadchurch, and I will watch it, but I'm not in a great hurry to do so.
(Ff - that must be some size of a hard disc. My Virgin box holds 80 hours, but that reduces to 20 hours of HD - not a great deal with all this good stuff on TV.)
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It's SO, SO slow, compared with the intense pace of the internalisations in the books. Endless walking about shots,[ and I if we have yet another lighting candles sequence!] the camera lingerers on Rylance's face, his extended silences such that they and he becomes an empty caricature. In the books, the ceaseless MENTAL activity is written up. The TV thing is castrating the book of its conflicts, schemes, political big pictures, but above all robbing it of propulsive PACE. Cast is briliant, but, oh dear, the rest of it......
Supremely disappointed here, I fear.
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Originally posted by DracoM View PostIt's SO, SO slow, compared with the intense pace of the internalisations in the books. Endless walking about shots,[ and I if we have yet another lighting candles sequence!] the camera lingerers on Rylance's face, his extended silences such that they and he becomes an empty caricature. In the books, the ceaseless MENTAL activity is written up. The TV thing is castrating the book of its conflicts, schemes, political big pictures, but above all robbing it of propulsive PACE. Cast is briliant, but, oh dear, the rest of it......
I have to confess though that I have not read the book, since I dislike the historical novel as a genre. It seems to me to face an insoluble dilemma: whether to incorporate the vigour of the language and ideas of the author's own time, and be anachronistic, or to seek historical verisimilitude and suffer a fatal dryness and archaism.
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