Lady Chatterly
Jan. 2nd, 2004 08:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
muck_a_luckI am such a geek.
I got "Lady Chatterly" for the simple reason that I wanted to ogle Sean Bean.
It was lovely! Complete drool fest, with excellent acting and plot as icing on the cake! (Though I was amused by the usual double-edged discrimination against the female audience - it's OK to exploit the female body but we must all be protected from the obscenity of the male body...)
I told myself that I would be reasonable and watch the four episodes over four mornings, but, seriously, who was I kidding? Ended up watching about 1.5 hours before work, then the rest before bed the same day.
But back to the geekiness, I was able to find brain cells not drowning in drool to worry about things like, what are we supposed to think about Mrs. Bolton's motivations? The film script made her a bit of an ambiguous character. Is she helping Connie in the best interest of the household, or is she scheming to get Connie out of the picture? Why did Mrs. Mellors re-appear when she did, and how did she find out about her husband's affair? Did he tell her, or someone else? And what about Chatterly himself? One moment, he appears to be a loving husband, a little forlorn as his wife starts to seek a life for herself beyond nursing him, and the next he just seems to want her to get pregnant so he can have an heir. And all mixed up are his attitudes about class and power.
All of which made me think, "I should read the book." Jeez Louise! And now that we think of it, watching Sharpe made me have the same thought! What is up with me! I'm trying to enjoy a little squee-inducing TV, and my brain is running off all lit crit...
I got "Lady Chatterly" for the simple reason that I wanted to ogle Sean Bean.
It was lovely! Complete drool fest, with excellent acting and plot as icing on the cake! (Though I was amused by the usual double-edged discrimination against the female audience - it's OK to exploit the female body but we must all be protected from the obscenity of the male body...)
I told myself that I would be reasonable and watch the four episodes over four mornings, but, seriously, who was I kidding? Ended up watching about 1.5 hours before work, then the rest before bed the same day.
But back to the geekiness, I was able to find brain cells not drowning in drool to worry about things like, what are we supposed to think about Mrs. Bolton's motivations? The film script made her a bit of an ambiguous character. Is she helping Connie in the best interest of the household, or is she scheming to get Connie out of the picture? Why did Mrs. Mellors re-appear when she did, and how did she find out about her husband's affair? Did he tell her, or someone else? And what about Chatterly himself? One moment, he appears to be a loving husband, a little forlorn as his wife starts to seek a life for herself beyond nursing him, and the next he just seems to want her to get pregnant so he can have an heir. And all mixed up are his attitudes about class and power.
All of which made me think, "I should read the book." Jeez Louise! And now that we think of it, watching Sharpe made me have the same thought! What is up with me! I'm trying to enjoy a little squee-inducing TV, and my brain is running off all lit crit...
