#mrs. danvers

[pamela-rabe]

Pamela Rabe as Mrs. Danvers in Rebecca for Melbourne Theatre Company (2024)

[potato-practice]

Der letzte Tanz mit Rebecca

[clawsofacat]

I think Mrs. Danvers should set MORE things on fire, actually

[neednottoneed]

Idk relistening to Stuttgart Rebecca today got me thinking about the way the Hayes Code has influenced both perceptions of Maxim and Mrs Danvers when compared with du Maurier’s original novel—Danvers as the tragic, “evil” lesbian doomed to be punished and die for her actions and Maxim the tragic hero who accidentally killed his wife. and this perception has definitely carried over to the musical (since it’s the plot they use) and I’m just thinking about how in du Maurier’s original book Mrs. Danvers doesn’t die. She sets Manderley on fire and you’re left with this very ambiguous ending for the narrator and Maxim. And Maxim does actively kill Rebecca, he shoots her, and so you’re left with a much more Gothic ending than either the movie adaptation or the musical give you of—there is no happiness for these two, not really. Therein lies the horror. There is no “jenseits der Angst.” And I understand the Hayes Code and I understand the musical following conventional romantic tropes, but man sometimes I wish they’d been more faithful to the novel and given us that ambiguity and horror that du Maurier does.

[cementbeverage]

Was wird aus uns, wenn man ihn hängt? By @jon-withnoh lives in my head rent free. And now I can’t stop drawing them.

[cookiekitten91]

Her voice

[specificpollsaboutbooks]

Antagonists and Villains

Round 2

Thrawn (Star Wars: Heir to the Empire) VS Mrs. Danvers (Rebecca) VS Mister Teatime (Discworld: Hogfather)

Thrawn

Mrs. Danvers

Mister Teatime

Show results

Voting ended onMar 5

NO ANTIPROPAGANDA PLEASE

Propaganda under the cut

Mister Teatime:

“Something began when the Guild of Assassins enrolled Mister Teatime, who saw things differently from other people, and one of the ways that he saw things differently from other people was in seeing other people as things (later, Lord Downey of the Guild said, 'We took pity on him because he’d lost both parents at an early age. I think that, on reflection, we should have wondered a bit more about that').”

[aliesafenlock]

A Chicago-inspired "Rebecca Alternate Ending" video by Kara Lane and Lauren Jones!

"We've been sent so much fanfic from all over the world, and we've loved every single alternate ending! We thought we'd create our own. Chicago the play was first performed on Broadway in 1926, the same year Rebecca is set... Maybe that's where the similarities end... or maybe not!"