A bad version of some characters

Cleve 2022-11-30 09:25:46

The 95th edition started with General Croft (the major general in the movie) and the navy officers rowing a boat at sea, but General Croft's face was red and rough and skin was lumpy, so the problem came: The original novel clearly stated that Sir Walter hated the navy at first. One of the main reasons is that "it destroys the youth and vitality of young people shockingly, because sailors are older than others." A practical example was given to illustrate that he once met General Baldwin of the Navy who was just forty in the city. "His face is reddish-brown, extremely rough, his face is full of wrinkles, and there are nine ash on the side of his brain. Mao, there is a big bald puff on it" (how, do you find this description is very similar to the 95 version of General Croft), and then Sir Walter met with General Croft and said "Kroft General Special is the most beautiful sailor he has ever seen. If his own personal servant had helped the general fix his hair, he would not be ashamed wherever he went with him.” So, how could General Croft return Will grow into the 95 version! (It can be seen from this that it is obvious that the director and screenwriter of the 95th edition did not understand the original work, and the characters were all wrong.)

Moreover, at the beginning of the 95th edition, people even put sheep on the lawn in front of the Kailinqi Mansion! A big flock of sheep! There is a farmer herding sheep on the lawn in front of the baron’s luxurious house (please imagine if a group of pigs walked on the lawn in front of the beautiful house of Downton Abbey, it would be a weird scene even if it was the pigs of the earl’s house. Okay! It’s not difficult for you to understand what it feels like to see someone herding sheep on the lawn in front of the Kailinqi Mansion...)! In front of the house was crowded with a lot of tattered debt collectors (Baron, what kind of debt do you owe? Did you take the old hen from the tenant farmer and didn't pay it? Or drank too much countryman Didn’t give money for the baron’s ale? Why are there poor creditors who dare to come to the baron’s house to ask for debt! A character like the baron owes a debt, and the creditor must be a decent person, even if the debt collection is in writing or with the baron’s agent Lawyer Shepherd in the original book) Negotiate, how could a bunch of poor ghosts come to the baron’s house and scream! They were crossed away by the sheriff or the police officer!

What makes people even more unbearable to look directly at is: the 95th edition of Miss Elizabeth turned out to be lying on her back in a chair, but that chair is not a recliner! And talk while picking things out of the mouth (Khan|||). The second lady of the Baron’s house, dressed in gray clothes as poor as the poor middle peasants, sat on the tattered horse-drawn carriage to go to the house of his sister Mary. Colonel Wentworth with a muddy face stretched his bare feet sloppyly and half-layed on the fire in someone else's house (Charles Moss Grove's) whom he had just met a short time ago.

In the original work, the one who always disliked her mother-in-law's family did not follow the etiquette and put herself first, and the overly vain Baron's third lady (the only youngest daughter who married first) was arranged to live in a dim and messy house like a poor tenant farmer by the 95th edition. In the country house. The house was dilapidated and looked a lot like the houses in Queqi village. But the original book clearly stated that Upklaus "Only two houses in the village look better than those of homesteaders and farmhands. The high-walled gate of the landlord’s manor, towering old trees, luxurious and antique, is located in the orderly garden. A compact and neat parsonage, a pear tree outside the window was neatly trimmed, and the windows were covered with vines. But when the young gentleman became a family, he repaired it in the format of a farm house and converted it into a country house for his own living. This Upklaus country house with verandas, floor-to-ceiling windows and other beautiful decorations can attract the attention of pedestrians as much as the more coordinated and majestic mansions about a quarter of a mile away.", also In other words, the cottage is the best, most beautiful and most attractive building in the village except for the Upklaus Mansion. And Mary in the room "she stayed in the beautiful small living room, lying on the faded couch. After four spring and autumn and two children toss, the once very exquisite furniture in the house gradually became dilapidated.", The 95 version of the country house does not have a veranda, floor-to-ceiling windows and other beautiful decorations. There is no window wall with cracks everywhere in the house, crooked picture frames, and chaotic objects. Where is there any "beautiful little" living room"? Mary is lying on a large high-legged stool with a dark brown embroidered pillow (there is a big spinning wheel beside it, does Mary have to spin and weave by herself?), where is the "faded couch"?

What I don’t understand the most is that in the second half of the story, why did Mrs. Russell and Annie in the 95th edition follow a group of gentlemen and ladies in a place that looks like a public hall doing "donkey grinding". In a circle? ? ? The room was empty, there were no portraits on the surrounding walls, and it didn't look like a museum or a concert hall. A group of ladies and gentlemen go round and round in there without feeling dizzy or boring? ? ? Could this be the British fashion at the time? ? ? But apart from the 95 and 07 editions of "Persuasion", I really haven't seen this custom in other British classics. . .

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Persuasion quotes

  • Sir Walter Elliot: I will not have a sailor in my house. I strongly object to the Navy. It brings persons of obscure birth into undue distinction. And it cuts up a man's youth and vigour most horribly.

  • Sir Walter Elliot: I was in company with a certain Admiral Baldwin, the most deplorable-looking person you can imagine. His face like mahogany, all lines and wrinkles, nine grey hairs and only a dab of powder on top.

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