#bbc adaptation

[freakyelf-ontheshelf]

Y'all really need to stfu complaining about BBC's adaptation of the lord of the flies, we haven't gotten any new shit since the nineties (without counting that comic last year), and you're here complaining that jack didn't scratch and sniff his balls the exact same way he did chapter five, paragraph 6 sentence 7 (yes I said 6 7).

[breathe-rainbow]

We’re getting our first PipRavi content in less than 12 hours I. Am. SCREAMING!! I knew the 14th would be good to us! Happy Valentine’s Day ya’ll 🩷

[arielseaworth]

Benedict Taylor as Magnus Pym, Rüdiger Weigang as Axel, and Alan Howard as Jack Brotherhood, in the 1987 BBC adaptation of A Perfect Spy.

In a single Christmas, God had dished him up two saints. The one was on the run and couldn’t walk, the other was a handsome English warlord who served sherry on Boxing Day and had never had a doubt in his life. Both admired him, both loved his jokes and his voices, both were clamouring to occupy the empty spaces of his heart. In return he was giving to each man the character he seemed to be in search of. His decision to keep them secret from each other was never taken. Let each be the mistress that keeps the other home intact, Pym thought. If he thought at all. (A Perfect Spy, John le Carré)

[deborahdeshoftim5779]

A hilarious compilation of Mr. Darcy’s stares at Elizabeth Bennet during the masterful 1995 adaption of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. 

[jackoshadows]

Ended up reading Jonathan Strange and Mr.Norrell by Susanna Clarke and thoroughly enjoyed it. Then found out that there was an adaptation of the book by the BBC, watched it and thought it excellent. I was honestly surprised that the BBC was able to do such a good job with good CGI and battle scenes. The actors elevated the show. In love with Bertie Carvel as Jonathan Strange and Eddie Marsan was great as Mr. Norrell.

If Josha Stradowski wants some ideas on how to play Darth Rand or slowly going insane Rand in The Wheel of Time TV adaptation, he should watch Carvel’s take on Jonathan Strange, playing the mad magician perfectly, IMO.

[angelkarafilli]

Richard Armitage in “North and South”(2004)

as John Thornton

Better than ever....

[joanhicksonsdaughter]

Happy Miss Marple Monday everyone!

Joan as Miss Marple in A Pocketful Of Rye (1985)

[mossrose10]

This probably seems like a really minor problem, and, in all fairness, it kinda is. But Jane Eyre was one of my favorite books in high school and is still one of my top rankers, and I just got done watching BBC’s 2006 version of Jane Eyre, and of all the stuff that got taken out of moved around in an actually pretty good dramatization, there is just one thing that got changed that is driving me nuts. In the adaptation, Jane said that St. John wanted to take her to Africa! Africa! Not that I have anything against Africa in a general sense, but St. John wanted to take her to India! That’s why he wanted her to learn what was then called Hindustani! And it’s such a small detail, but I think that’s why it’s bothering me-- it is a small detail. There was no reason that they should have changed it because it’s not like it helped them condense a conversation or a plot point. It served them no purpose to change it; they just did. And when I said all this to my viewing companions, they were just all, “It was probably just a mistake. It’s not a big deal!” And they just weren't getting it, no matter what I said, which only made it worse. So, now, you all out on the internet get to hear it. Yeah. Maybe one of you all agree with me. If you do, let me know. Anyway, I think I’m done now. Thanks for listening.