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pilferingapples:

oceannocturne:

pilferingapples:

But far from being cowed by the titans of literature who created them, Davies reckons he has an opportunity to improve upon their famous works.

“I’m trying to bring out the wonderfulness of what’s in the book,” he said at Cheltenham Literature Festival, “and I’m also, sometimes, trying to camouflage the faults and often write some scenes that I think Tolstoy or Jane Austen should have written which is very cheeky and arrogant but there you go.”

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He added that when it came to War and Peace, “Tolstoy didn’t really manage a satisfactory ending so I had to give him one,” jokingly labelling himself a “boastful bugger”.

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you know when Hugo’s narration comes over all Lemony and he’s like “hey here’s a thing that’s going to End Badly but no one knows it yet, I am telling you, the reader, so you can be prepared”  ?  Yeah.

NO NO NO NO NO!!!!

There’s a part in the article where he’s like ‘well we only see Mr. Darcy from Elizabeth’s pov and she’s so prejudiced against him that we don’t know he’s a good guy until the end’ and I’m like…that’s the point???? Like the actual point of the novel???? Using a character’s POV to obscure facts is a literary device, not a flaw!! Tons of authors do it!!! Giving it all away at the beginning is BORING!! 

I’m so scared for his Les Mis adaptation O.O

I read that and cracked up because he doesn’t seem to even realize that he just namedropped half the title 

And I mean I’d be down with him saying “and I thought that kind of approach wouldn’t work as well onscreen” but he’s just like THIS WAS AN ERROR, it makes Elizabeth look too…prejudiced …and maybe Darcy seems too…proud…for …some reason…” 

I’m trying to have Hope, I did like  his P&P, but every new article just makes me wince >_<

The characters just seem so FLAWED it’s CRAZY that they have to OVERCOME FLAWS in order to actually understand each other? I thinks dramatic tension should come solely from gritty, awful scenes of female misery, not from irony or information being revealed!!!

Andrew Davies: I try to camouflage the faults of Austen and Tolstoy