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I went up to NY this weekend to attend An's (mizo_no_oto) autumnal party, and it was very nice. Saw Gina a_priori there as well, and Anna a_literati. An had declared that everybody ought to dress in autumn colors for the party, and both Anna and I ended up going shopping for it. I just want to say that I am awesome, because I said that vests were really gonna be big in
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The stupid thing here is that the three young people are supposed to be very attractive. But I find Ada bland at best, and Esther... er... in the book, everyone compliments her on how pretty she is, and yet she's made up so plainly in the adaptation that I have a nagging suspicion that the casting director overdosed on Jane Eyre and has decided that all governesses must be physically unappealing. I LIKE that the governess is pretty in the book! Since Jane Eyre created such a cult of the homely governess, it is refreshing that the Poor Orphan is not much less conventionally attractive than the Beautiful Blonde Maiden.
It's especially disappointing because I usually LIKE British adaptations' "realism." Other adaptations I've seen did a very good job, I thought, of casting people in the proper ranges of attractiveness, from "street level pretty" to "really quite lovely" to "not particularly good looking but with a certain charm" as the book demanded, while as Hollywood would just make everyone into "beautiful." Here though, I think they took the "we're not Hollywood!" bit too far.
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