Friday word: Svengali

[med_cat]

Cross-posting from 1word1day
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It caught my eye because there had been a film called "Svengali", and I hadn't known the title actually meant something, I'd assumed it was the last name of the main character or the name of the place.

(not seen the film, but some good-looking actors in it; it's on YouTube)
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'Svengali' Bannon leaving White House
'A person

Comments

[elenbarathi]

Well... the book Trilby is named after the protagonist, and the film Svengali that's based on it is named after the antagonist - presumably because his name is more exotic-sounding. I never saw the film, but I read the book in college - it was okay, but not great. Here's an interesting article about it:
https://longreads.com/2017/02/16/the-novel-that-gave-us-svengali/

[med_cat]

Thanks for the link! Shall check out the article. I didn't know the book was based on the film...

I'd not seen the film either, I heard about it b/c of the 3-min part of this actor, I believe his part was even uncredited b/c it's so short:

;)

[elenbarathi]

Yay, Jeremy Brett as a callow youth! Now I kind of want to watch the whole film, even though he isn't in the rest of it.

[med_cat]

Hee hee ;)

If you haven't yet seen them, I can highly recommend "Number 10: Bloodlines", "The Prodigal Daughter" (each of those is under one hour long) and "On Approval" ;)

(can find the YouTube links if you'd like, let me know)

[elenbarathi]

Here they are; thanks! I'll wait to watch them with James later; he likes Jeremy Brett too:

Number 10 Bloodline Full- Jeremy Brett

The Prodigal Daughter (1975) [Jeremy Brett]

On Approval ~ Unabridged ~1

[med_cat]

Yep, these are the ones :)

[med_cat]

Oh, and "The Haunted Ferryman", for Halloween! It's also less than an hour long.

[elenbarathi]

Cool; thanks! Here it is, for future reference:

Haunted - The Ferryman- Jeremy Brett

[med_cat]

Yep :)

[elenbarathi]

No no, the film Svengali is based on the book Trilby. I read the book and wasn't much impressed; I never saw the film.

[med_cat]

Right, yes, I meant I didn't know the film was based on the book (I obviously wasn't as awake and alert as I thought I was, when I replied to the comments! oops ;)