British period stuff...
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dangermousieMy favorite British period adaptation is North and South. See this fun MV for why :)
NS is my third-favorite 19th-century novel (behind Jane Eyre and Our Mutual Friend, both of which also had excellent adaptations).
I am lucky in my 19th-century novel loving soul: most of them have excellent adaptations, from various Trollipe novels (Pallisers! OMGLOVE), wonderful abundance of great Dickens stuff, Austen overkill, Jane Eyre and other Bronte works, Gaskell novels, Wilkie Collins stuff, Hardy etc.
In fact, if they ever adopted Bronte's Shirley and Gaskell's Mary Barton, I'd be set forever.
NS is my third-favorite 19th-century novel (behind Jane Eyre and Our Mutual Friend, both of which also had excellent adaptations).
I am lucky in my 19th-century novel loving soul: most of them have excellent adaptations, from various Trollipe novels (Pallisers! OMGLOVE), wonderful abundance of great Dickens stuff, Austen overkill, Jane Eyre and other Bronte works, Gaskell novels, Wilkie Collins stuff, Hardy etc.
In fact, if they ever adopted Bronte's Shirley and Gaskell's Mary Barton, I'd be set forever.
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Date: 2009-09-09 02:50 pm (UTC)I haven't seen Cranford yet - I know! I did love the book - I don't remember much anymore only that one of the stories made me cry.
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Date: 2009-09-09 04:38 pm (UTC)go hie thee and download Cranford! bloody gorgeous adaptation (though I've not read the book, but when it is that pretty and eff me, that cast!). but yes, you need a box a tissue for any watching. each episode was a "who dies this week!" type that had me bawling endlessly.
off to fire up the iPod...
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Date: 2009-09-09 08:14 pm (UTC)I think Wives and Daughters is my favorite of the adaptations I've seen, though.
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Date: 2009-09-09 08:43 pm (UTC)There are a couple of excellent Gaskell novels that beg to be adapted - Mary Barton, about unionizing. And Sylvia's Lovers, which is excellent - I love the heroine even as I loathe her husband with the strength of ten thousand suns (an opinion not shared by the wikipedia author - I think this is yet another one of those shipper war situations :P only this time in obscure literary fandoms).
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Date: 2009-09-09 02:31 pm (UTC)It still kills me that I put off watching this for two years because I thought it sounded boring. (Well, and because at first I thought people were talking about the Civil War era one with Patrick Swayze.) I hope I've learned my lesson now!
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Date: 2009-09-09 02:50 pm (UTC)Yeah, for ages I thought it was that Civil War thing. Then I read the book and saw the adaptation and was a goner.
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Date: 2009-09-09 07:58 pm (UTC)For one, Thornton actually worked for a living.
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Date: 2009-09-09 08:26 pm (UTC)Not to mention, he actually works for a living as opposed to just gallivanting off to parties.