There is also, apparently, a 2000 British mini with Kevin McKidd as Vronsky
OMPH! Ypu reminded me! I watched this! It wasn't anything really interesting , though
I am so with you on Andrey Bolkonsky and Natasha! I find "War and Peace" much more satisfying in a shippy sense then "Anna Karenina". I also loved Andrey's sister! I love Anna Karenina to bits but I am very angry with Vronsky. I think Anna was prepared to be ostracized as long as their love endured. What i think she wasn't ready for was Vronsky's doubts. But here is where I contradict myself - I also very much on Anna's husband's site. Oh yea, he is a boring middle-aged man. But! He wasn't a monster or anything of the kind to deserve all he had to endure. He is the father of Anna's boy and he also has paternal rights.
Altogether I think "Anna Karenina"-the-book is much more complex then many of it's adaptations which usually just go for "sweeping love" story.. For example, in my interpretation Anna's death was as much accident as anything - she became terrified by her own decision but got dragged under wheels : "And exactly at the moment when the space between the wheels came opposite her, she dropped the red bag, and drawing her head back into her shoulders, fell on her hands under the carriage, and lightly, as though she would rise again at once, dropped on to her knees. And at the same instant she was terror-stricken at what she was doing. "Where am I? What am I doing? What for?" She tried to get up, to drop backwards; but something huge and merciless struck her on the head and rolled her on her back.".
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Date: 2007-09-27 10:21 am (UTC)OMPH! Ypu reminded me! I watched this! It wasn't anything really interesting , though
I am so with you on Andrey Bolkonsky and Natasha! I find "War and Peace" much more satisfying in a shippy sense then "Anna Karenina". I also loved Andrey's sister! I love Anna Karenina to bits but I am very angry with Vronsky. I think Anna was prepared to be ostracized as long as their love endured. What i think she wasn't ready for was Vronsky's doubts. But here is where I contradict myself - I also very much on Anna's husband's site. Oh yea, he is a boring middle-aged man. But! He wasn't a monster or anything of the kind to deserve all he had to endure. He is the father of Anna's boy and he also has paternal rights.
Altogether I think "Anna Karenina"-the-book is much more complex then many of it's adaptations which usually just go for "sweeping love" story.. For example, in my interpretation Anna's death was as much accident as anything - she became terrified by her own decision but got dragged under wheels : "And exactly at the
moment when the space between the wheels came opposite her, she
dropped the red bag, and drawing her head back into her
shoulders, fell on her hands under the carriage, and lightly, as
though she would rise again at once, dropped on to her knees.
And at the same instant she was terror-stricken at what she was
doing. "Where am I? What am I doing? What for?" She tried to
get up, to drop backwards; but something huge and merciless
struck her on the head and rolled her on her back.".