Good morning. It seems that the days I come around to post are on Tues & Fri. There’s no possible way I can post daily (I don’t know how you other moms do it!) so I figure twice a week is sufficient.
The other night I taped the movie THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE that was on A&E. I absolutely love all those literary classics (particularly anything Austen) and I hadn’t read the novel by Thomas Hardy. It starred one of my favorite actors Ciaran Hinds (of Persuasion, Ivanhoe and Jane Erye fame.) Two of the actresses (I don’t know their name off hand) were in other movies – one was Jane Fairfax in the hollywood Emma and the other was the young Jewish girl from Daniel Deronda. (That was also a good movie – I just got the DVD of it.)
Anyway, I watched the movie with Brian and man, if you’re the type that needs a happy ending don’t watch it! It has a lot of twists and turns and people from one scene will later tie into people from another scene, sort of Dickens style (Our Mutual Friend come to mind.) The movie felt a bit choppy at times but that could have been because of the stupid commercials. I’ll know better when I watch the DVD. So although it was sad it was still enjoyable to watch and moral lessons could be gained. Besides sometimes you just need a hankie moment to have a good cry!
If you want to watch the movie it’s playing again tonight on A&E. And if you liked to buy the movie there’s a special through A&E, the DVD and the book for $29. And for those who’ve asked, yes I’ll make a list of my favorite literary adaptions to post on RoL. I’ll let you know when it’s up. Have a great weekend guys! keep praying, b.