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[dangermousie]

So, apparently Paullina Simons is writing a book about Alexander's parents (it's kinda cool she seems to find leaving the Tatiana and Alexander world as much as I do).

Hmmmm.

Now, I am sure it will be excellently-written. Anything of hers is. I am not sure how excited I am by this, however. It's not even about the fact that we already know the outcome - they both get executed. It's more that I truly dislike them. Whatever they were when they were younger, by the end they barely have a marriage, she's an utter alcoholic and he's worse. And even more importantly, perhaps this is the result of my Soviet childhood speaking, but any man who chooses, in the 1920s, to uproot his family from America where he has a comfortable middle-class existence, to Stalin's USSR, is a lunatic that deserves whatever he gets, except for the fact that his lunacy dooms the innocents he dragged with him. Every horrible, awful thing that happened to Alexander is his father's fault. (Though I suppose if he wasn't around, Tatiana would have died in the bombings or starved during the siege, so there is that...)

Plus, I lose interest when the story veers from our couple. The lat third of The Summer Garden, after they had a bunch of kids, I totally lost interest when the story got into their kids and things. I mean, I am happy they have a large family to replace being utterly alone in the world, but I don't really care about the details of the kids' lives or Anthony's tour of Vietnam or whatever.

So we'll see.

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[sabaceanbabe.livejournal.com]

Although some of it might be interesting to one who does not have a Soviet background (*waves*), I think I'm with you regarding who the story is about. I adore both Tatiana and Alexander, and I love Alexander's backstory for his part in it, but his parents are pretty atrocious, for all that they helped shape the man he became. (Most of that was "let me show you what not to do.")

It would be far better news, as far as I'm concerned, to learn that Ms. Simons was working on a script for the Bronze Horseman and that a movie deal had been struck and had funding.

Just sayin'...

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I love all your Finnick icons btw.

I've heard the script is done but not anything more.

Who'd you cast btw?

If I was doing utter fantasy cast without regard for availability and age, my Tatiana would be Zhanna Prohorenko (she was in the amazing movie Ballad of a Soldier, about a WW2 soldier on a brief furlough. She is the girl he falls in love with):







And for Alexander, Daniil Strahov though he's be a bit too old now (at least he's not dead like Zhanna, who was a star in the 50s-60s).

[sabaceanbabe.livejournal.com]

I honestly haven't put much thought into it, but I could see Henry Cavill as Alexander and Amanda Seyfried as Tatiana.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Omg, they would be perfect!

[sabaceanbabe.livejournal.com]

LOL! I thought you were in Turkey! I wasn't expecting a response so quickly. :D

I hadn't actually thought of anyone other than Henry Cavill at all, but I was initially thinking of Natalie Portman when I saw something with Amandy Seyfried in it and suddenly Natalie wasn't at all right anymore. (Maybe she could play Dasha?)

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I am on the plane that is about to take off for Istanbul in about 20 minutes ;) (amusingly, I have the trilogy on my kindle for the flight)

Natalie Portmanteau is dark-haired and blondness is such a big part of Tatyana. Plus, I don't think she is that good at joyous so, yeah, you are right, much more Dasha.

[sabaceanbabe.livejournal.com]

Hee! Such timing! You all have a safe and gloriously fun trip! :)

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I will! I am just getting my fill of the Internet before we leave ;)