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Ulises is a literature teacher that arrives to a coastal town.
I also can't believe that they eliminated Edward's great marriage proposal scene from the end of the book, one of the most moving moments in literature.
I'll propose you for the Nobel prize of literature.
Apparently those who can't come up with their own plots think that classic literature is just there for the plundering.
Nearly direct quotes from the book are in the script and if you want the very first true 'romance' in literature, this is the way to see it.
In literature and the visual arts, it was the closing of a great fifty or sixty year period of creativity that has yet to be restarted.
ELEPHANT WALK may not be the acme of literature or of film, but it is great entertainment in the quasi-melodramatic mode.
Since the advent of literature, people of all nationalities have been fascinated and easily touched by accounts of unhappy love.
In all honesty, this series is as much a classic (as television goes) as the original poem is to the world's literature.
Let's face it; Nancy Drew was never great literature.
The literature of magic is so diverse, portraying the ideas of classical, medieval and modern wizardry, like Harry Potter and Sabrina.
I imagine Victorian literature slowly sinking into the mire of the increasingly distant past, pulled down by the weight of its under-skirts.
Along comes television: at its best, it has a redemptive power, and with dramatisations like those the BBC produce so finely, Victorian literature gets a new stab at life.
I had no guess as to how such an extraordinary piece of literature could be recreated as a film worth seeing.
The novel which earned Ms. Buck the Nobel Prize for literature comes alive under the baton of Sydney Franklin which along with an excellent script recounts the story of peasant farmer, Wang Lung, whose father obtains a bride for him, a slave girl from the kitchen of a local landlord.
This film is a member of a movement of many movements that tried to lend respectability to cinéma, or just make a profit, by adapting literature or theatre onto the screen.
I just can't believe that the movie has just been voted by only 223 people so far given that the movie was produced in 2004 and it has won many awards since then.About the movie...it's one of those well-acted sweet movies.Reda,a French teenager due to sit for Baccalauréat, is asked by his devout elderly father to take him to Mecca.Strange as it may seem(if one doesn't know much about Islam)the father wants his son to drive them from their home in France to Saudia Arabia on a once-in-a-lifetime religious pilgrimage.The generation gap between the father and the son is based on simple enough terms('you may know how to read and write, but you know nothing about life,' the unnamed father to his son)but some sort of bromidic generation gap literature is avoided.Bot of them are affectionate in their frustrations.The father never speaks in French though Reda understands Arabic but can only seem to answer in French.
The morbid Catholic writer Gerard Reve (Jeroen Krabbé) that is homosexual, alcoholic and has frequent visions of death is invited to give a lecture in the literature club of Vlissingen.
Though I did not begin to read the "Classics" in literature until I was 47, it's never too late.
Artistic license to the great works in literature is nothing short of plagiarism.
After seeing Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes, no actor should ever display such conceit as to imagine that he could ever come close to Mr. Brett's portrayal of "one of the most interesting characters in literature".
Last night I finished re-watching "Jane Eyre" (1983), the BBC mini-series adapted from Charlotte Bronte's Gothic romance novel which is deservingly a classic of English literature with Timothy Dalton (my favorite James Bond) as Mr. Edward Rochester and Zelah Clarke, as Jane Eyre, a poor orphaned 18-year-old girl, a governess at Mr. Rochester's estate, Thornfield.
The first part is the very raw and painful story about a young girl who is raped by her literature teacher.
To me it embodies everything that cinema is meant to be; it's visual art in motion, literature with pictures, history with emotion; all those and much more.
The characters likewise are complex (for YA literature) and provide much in the way complex behaviour.
I've seen a LOT of movies in my time, and have even studied them as literature in university, but nothing could have prepared me for just how incredibly bad this piece of cinematic dreck was... and that's giving dreck a bad name!
One of the great things about movies and literature is the ability to shock people.
If nothing past the first fifteen minutes of a film is 'real', and the main character dies at the end of a film with the realization that the things you just saw were all some literature professor's self-referential wet dream of metaphor and allegory, then what is this film worth?
The worst is that there is nothing literary left - not the first time a director's agenda betrays that they just don't get why literature exists in the first place.
There is a scene early in DEAD POETS SOCIETY wherein Robin Williams, as a new literature teacher at an upscale boys prep school, tells his class that he wants them to learn to think for themselves.
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