SWOON

[annundriel]

Mom finally got me to watch North & South.

OMG.

OH MY GOD.

BETTER THAN ANY ADAPTATION OF PRIDE & PREJUDICE.

I'M SORRY, P&P, BUT THAT ENDING.

IT'S KILLED ME IN THE BEST WAY POSSIBLE.

YES, CAPS LOCK IS NECESSARY.

ETA: ALSO, RICHARD ARMITAGE. Can I just curl up in his voice, please?

Comments

[adc14.livejournal.com]

OMG!! I LOVE that movie!! I can't even count the numbers of times I've watched it! My friend and I have a marathon every year!! Oh Orry.....:)

[annundriel.livejournal.com]

Sadly...I meant a different North & South. :(

But! That meant I had to look up who Orry was and now I think I might have to check this one out, too. :)

[adc14.livejournal.com]

Ah ok!! ;)

Haven't seen any other North & South but if you like watching movies set during the American Civil War then the one with Patrick Swayze is awesome!

[trademybike.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I thought you were referring to the Patrick Swayze one. The first two books of it are really good. The rest... kinda go to hell in a handbasket. Still enjoyable. And ohhhhh George.

[annundriel.livejournal.com]

I guess I should have specified. Whoops!

I'll have to check out the other North & South. This actually has NOTHING to do with the Civil War. Or America.

[dark-cygnet.livejournal.com]

oh yes, North and South, really wonderful. Fell in love with it at first viewing. Richard Armitage for teh win! And if you do get a chance, do check out N&S with Patrick Swayze and the rest. I think you will like it.

[annundriel.livejournal.com]

I'm sure they must have aired it on our local PBS station, but I never saw it. Heard a lot about it. But a couple of months ago my mom got it on Netflix and then she had to buy it and she's been flailing at me ever since.

So last night we watched it. Caps lock probably made it clear how much I enjoyed it. ;)

I'm definitely putting the N&S with Patrick Swayze on my list of things to see.

[ember-firedrake.livejournal.com]

I know some of this has been said in tweets already, but: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *flails* :D \o/

Prior to watching North & South, my favorite BBC/Masterpiece theater adaptations were Pride & Prejudice and the 2005 Jane Eyre. North & South took everything I loved about both stories, and made something better (with the best romantic payoff for viewers).

(Using my Byron icon because of Thornton's appropriately Byronic qualities)

[annundriel.livejournal.com]

I can repeat the flailing over and over and over again. !!!!!!!!!

OMG. I love finding something new and being THIS excited over it. I mean, this happened to me recently with Inception so I feel pretty lucky, but OMG.

North & South took everything I loved about both stories, and made something better (with the best romantic payoff for viewers).

THIS. I mean, I actually have very mixed feelings about Jane Eyre, but I really enjoyed that adaptation. And P&P is a classic, though I'll admit that the version with Matthew Macfadyen? I might love it more. Horrible thing to say, I know. But it's like a direct hit of swoon for me.

But N&S...N&S takes all of the good stuff and mixes it up and gives you something just a little bit more. And then it gives you that ending. So very satisfying.

I wanted to get the book from the library, but they did not have it. Am waiting on Amazon instead.

[ember-firedrake.livejournal.com]

Haha....Jane Eyre and I have an interesting relationship. I had to read it for my 9th grade English class, and I loathed it. I partly blame the teacher for that. Then, in 10th grade, I had my favorite English teacher ever (favorite teacher really, we still talk to one another). She didn't teach the book, but it was one of her favorites. I didn't fully understand her love for it. Then, the following summer, I went to England, and ended up seeing a stage production. I really liked their interpretation. A friend got me hooked on the musical (pretty good, and James Barbour is a fantastic baritone as Rochester). Finally, with a grudging like for the story, I thought I should give the book another try, and got the chance in my sophomore year of college when I took a women's studies class. Saw the 2005 adaptation after that, and now I enjoy Jane Eyre. But it took me a long time to get to that point. ;)

On a North & South note, I actually downloaded it free for my e-reader. I'm probably going to read it next after I finish the stuff I currently have checked out from my library.

[annundriel.livejournal.com]

Ha! Your experience with Jane Eyre basically sounds like the opposite of mine. My mom brought it home from the library for me the summer before 6th grade. I read it, loved it, read it oncee a year then through middle school and at least half of high school. Never really loved Rochester like everyone else did. And then I took a class called Gender and Social Realities. I loved the professor, took the class for her to begin with. Our big essay of the quarter could be on anything we wanted. So I talked to her and got the okay to do a philosophical analysis of Jane Eyre. She was totally behind it, as the first philosophy course I had with her we did that to Frankenstein.

And all of the misgivings I was already having about the book came to the forefront and...that's been it for me and Jane Eyre. The tide my change again one day, but that probably won't happen for a while. Let's just say I have some MASSIVE issues with it.

I didn't think of my e-reader! Oh well. I like having a book in hand.

[redvelvetribbon.livejournal.com]

I TOTALLY agree. I fellin love with ita couple of years ago and have it all on DVD. I went nutso over it. The cotton coming down through the shots like snow, the way she throws herself in front of him at the riot! Swoon!

Totally agree. Im just glad someone else gets it. You show people the DVD and they are like...ah ok.

[annundriel.livejournal.com]

I've gone a bit nutso over it myself. Just...cannot stop thinking about it. I loved those shots in the mill with the cotton. The way it floated up and around and caught on everything. The end of part one, where Margaret says she's seen hell and it's snow white as the camera pans over the workers...oh, that was striking.

I'll admit, I was a little "ah ok" before watching it. I mean, I heard good things about it and my mom was flailing so I knew it had to be great. Oh, I should have caved and watched it long ago!

[redvelvetribbon.livejournal.com]

Im just glad its not just me. Technically Richard looks like an undertaker, tall and all in black but he just has this wonderful intense thing going on. And when he watches her leave and that....look back at me....but nothing.
Swoon. I actually haven't seen it in a year and your making me want to watch it again. Thanks!

[annundriel.livejournal.com]

He does look like an undertaker! And then when he goes into full intense mod - with the downturned face - he's quite intimidating!

But, ooooh, it's so good!

I already want to watch it again. :D

[lattimore.livejournal.com]

IKR! How can someone not fall for Richard Armitage as John Thornton: a self-made man, stern but with a kind heart, and genuinely trying to do the best he can for his workers. And in addition to that last scene, when he's watching Margaret riding away in the carriage and can't stop himself from saying "Turn around and look at me"....

Yeah. MAJOR SWOONING, right there.

[annundriel.livejournal.com]

Hey, you! I was just wondering where you'd got to. Good to see you around.

Oh god, yes, that scene where she's leaving and he wants her to look at him. And then his face when she doesn't.

And that first proposal! Where you're going "No, Thornton, no! Don't do it!" but you know he's going to. And Margaret doesn't get that he loves her and doesn't want to possess her. I"ll say that I wasn't 100% on his developing feelings for her, but he really meant that he loved her. No doubt.

Partway through the third part, I turned to my mom and said, "I'm going to have to turn around and rewatch it as soon as the credits roll, aren't I?" I didn't, but I may have to rewatch it soon anyway.

[lattimore.livejournal.com]

Hello hello :) I was way too busy at work, so I couldn't summon up the energy for LJ or anything. I missed keeping up with you all!

The first proposal had me wincing so hard, knowing that there would be blood on the walls afterward but he was so set on having his say! They're both such prickly people, and for him to lower his defenses before she's ready to accept the truth of what he's speaking - oh, the awkwardness of it. But it makes that last scene even better.

[annundriel.livejournal.com]

I figured work was probably keeping you busy. Still, people disappear from my flist, I wonder where they get to. :)

I think I watched part of that proposal throgh my fingers. It's such a trainwreck! But you know it has to happen. He's got to put himself out there and she has to be faced with some new truths.

As for the last scene, my mom likes to point out how long it's been since they've seen each other. You can just see Thornton drinking her in. And Margaret wanting to but not quite being able to face that intense of a gaze.