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Dec. 24th, 2008 01:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickSo I'm watching my cousin Heather's netflix pick, which is Lady Chatterly w/ Sean Bean. (I am not the one in my family with a major hard-on for British actors. That'd be Heather.)
I had a better time watching it than expected. Part of my amusement derived from the twenty year span between reading the book and seeing the movie. One of the most interesting things I discovered on watching from twenty years later was that when I read the book, I was a wee sprout and could not really grasp the appeal of an uncomplicated piece of work such as all that.
At this point, however, I've *had* an uncomplicated piece of work such as that. More than once. Seen the appeal? Yep. Wanted to marry it? Nope.
See, that's where she went wrong, or perhaps right if you buy into the love conquers all thing.
Now, I am not sure staying with the husband would have been workable -- they were just making each other miserable. She had to leave him. Besides, he had some nerve over getting pissy about who she picked when he out and ordered her to find someone to knock her up. She picked someone who was local, discreet, and reasonably loyal. It could have been a lot worse.
However, I don't think I'd have had her run off with the gamekeeper to play house in fucking Canada. That just strikes me as totally unrealistic. See, in the movie version, he and she get on a boat to Canada to live happily ever after. That is not how the book ends. In the book, she leaves her husband and goes to Scotland with her sister. He goes off to work on a farm. I'm not entirely sure where the Beeb felt justified in providing us with a Happy Canada Ending but that's what we got in the series.
Also, damn, that woman is so needy. Bitch clings like a fucking limpet. I am amazed about the amount of whining that he puts up with for a bit of the fancy. Damn, he's got a tolerance for the whining. I'm suprised he didn't think of a way to shut her up. I'd've.
I had a better time watching it than expected. Part of my amusement derived from the twenty year span between reading the book and seeing the movie. One of the most interesting things I discovered on watching from twenty years later was that when I read the book, I was a wee sprout and could not really grasp the appeal of an uncomplicated piece of work such as all that.
At this point, however, I've *had* an uncomplicated piece of work such as that. More than once. Seen the appeal? Yep. Wanted to marry it? Nope.
See, that's where she went wrong, or perhaps right if you buy into the love conquers all thing.
Now, I am not sure staying with the husband would have been workable -- they were just making each other miserable. She had to leave him. Besides, he had some nerve over getting pissy about who she picked when he out and ordered her to find someone to knock her up. She picked someone who was local, discreet, and reasonably loyal. It could have been a lot worse.
However, I don't think I'd have had her run off with the gamekeeper to play house in fucking Canada. That just strikes me as totally unrealistic. See, in the movie version, he and she get on a boat to Canada to live happily ever after. That is not how the book ends. In the book, she leaves her husband and goes to Scotland with her sister. He goes off to work on a farm. I'm not entirely sure where the Beeb felt justified in providing us with a Happy Canada Ending but that's what we got in the series.
Also, damn, that woman is so needy. Bitch clings like a fucking limpet. I am amazed about the amount of whining that he puts up with for a bit of the fancy. Damn, he's got a tolerance for the whining. I'm suprised he didn't think of a way to shut her up. I'd've.
