FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD
2015, dir. Thomas Vinterberg
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"It may have been observed that there is no regular path to getting out of love as there is to getting in."
~ Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd
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Bathsheba: I don't want your opinion, Gabriel.
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Bathsheba: Well, what's your opinion then, Gabriel?
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Carey Mulligan as Bathsheba Everdene in Far From The Maddening Crowd (2015).
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"She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises."
-- Far From the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
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“I’ll make her my wife, or upon my soul I shall be good for nothing!”
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
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One day, ONE DAY, I am gonna write the Far From the Madding Crowd AU for Jily that lives rent free in my head. Lily as Bathsheba Everdene. James as Gabriel Oak. ??? as Boldwood. Ugh.
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It's quite funny to watching Hunger Games: The Mockingjay followed by Far From The Madding Crowd and it's all Everdene, Everdeen, Everdene.
Also, Juno Temple is Fanny Robin which I'd totally forgotten.
I did remember Michael Sheen.
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"She heard footsteps brushing the grass, and had a consciousness that love was encircling her like a perfume."
~ Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd
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The special verse in the Book of Ruth was sought out by Bathsheba, and the sublime words met her eye. They slightly thrilled and abashed her. It was Wisdom in the abstract facing Folly in the concrete.
I don't really annotate my books (at least not reading the first time through) but I am mentally highlighting and underlining this part. I can just feel it's going to be important.
Anything from the book of Ruth was going to get my attention, but the footnotes in my copy of FftMC states that the verse people would put the key in was Ruth 1:16 - "Whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God."
There is a war here going on in Bathsheba. The ritual is to find out who one will marry, (even though the verse is Ruth to her mother-in-law) and so her thoughts of the verse are likely toward romantic love, but perhaps any kind of devotion. She recognizes its "wisdom," but only as a thought experiment and not to be practiced. If practiced, it becomes "folly." Bathsheba is practical and perhaps a bit cynical, but she doesn't flat-out refuse that sticking by someone's side no matter what has potential merits. Perhaps it's something she could be won over by as events proceed.
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📽️ Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)
I watched this when it first came out and didn’t like it very much. But for some reason I wanted to watch it again. I really liked it this time! It’s pretty slow-paced, so it feels kind of long. But it’s a really good story, and I enjoyed it.
Sex/nudity: 3/10 (mild sexual references and innuendoes, implied sex, kissing, groping)
Language: 1/10 (mild, if any; I don’t remember any)
Violence: 2/10 (what is shown is fairly mild, but there are some dead bodies - both human and animal)
Overall rating: 7/10
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