Bill's great aunt

Theo 2022-10-27 23:02:44

My favorite plot in the movie is when Bill talks about his great aunt. The letter in the book simply says, ”I live with my great aunt who is 75. I think if you had seen the look of delight on her face when I brought the meat and tin of tongue, you would have realize how grateful we are”. When Helene was reading out the letter in the movie, we were imaging this super sweet old lady full of gratitude. However, when the great aunt showed up, she is a typical grumpy old women complaining about the entire universe. We were thinking to ourselves, was it just a white lie that Bill had to tell to be nice? No, absolutely not. When the great aunt got settled down in front of the table looking at her sliced ​​meat, not only her face light up, I'd argue her face light up the entire the world. She was this happiest giddiest cute little old lady.The humor in this twist is amazing!

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84 Charing Cross Road quotes

  • Helene Hanff: Being used to the dead white paper and the stiff cardboardy covers of American books, I never knew a book could be such a joy to the touch.

  • Helene Hanff: [typing] WHAT KIND OF A BLACK PROTESTANT BIBLE IS THIS! Kindly inform the Church of England they have loused up the most beautiful prose even written. Who ever taught Dr. Tindall the Vulgate Latin. They'll burn for it, mark my words. It's nothing to me, I'm Jewish myself, but I have a Catholic sister-in-law, a Methodist sister-in-law, a whole raft of Presbyterian cousins, through my late Uncle Abraham who was converted, and an aunt who's a Christian Science healer. And I'd like to think none of them would countenance an Anglican Latin Bible if they knew it existed. As it happens, they don't know Latin existed.