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[fajrdrako]

Gakked this from trude:



The 1982 TV movie - The Scarlet Pimpernel.
Starring Anthony Andrews, Jane Seymour, and Sir Ian
McKellan.


Which Scarlet Pimpernel are you?
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Whee, my favourite movie version of the Pimpernel!

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[isagel.livejournal.com]

When I was a kid and this movie was fairly new, I was completely in love with it. I strongly suspect that it's the original cause of my obsession with all stories that have sword-fights in them. Sadly, though, I haven't seen it for about fifteen years. It's never on tv. It made me read the books, too, and I'm still childishly fond of those. Romance...honour...clever plans...sword-fights! Yay! *g*

In the test, I was the 1999 tv series with Richard E. Grant. This is an odd filmatization, and Grant was a strange choice of leading actor, though I actually enjoyed his interpretation of the role. He added a true, wreckless love of adventure to the character which I think is there in the books but not very present in earlier movie versions. Though I *hated* Elizabeth McGovern as Marguerite. *shudder* Anyway, fun quiz!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I don't know when or where my love of sword-fights started, but I've loved them as far back as I can remember - Pimpernel, Hamlet, the works of Dorothy Dunnett, The Count of Monte Cristo, anything like that - and I think "The Scarlet Pimpernel" is among the best of the genre. I read many of the books (but not all) and loved the style and the characters.

My favourite of the movies is the Anthony Andrews version, which is probably the first I saw, though I remember that my mother was a fan of the Leslie Howard version - which I saw much later. I don't think there has been a version I didn't like except for a rather poor version of the play by Beverly Cross.

I didn't like Richard E. Grant so much, though I enjoyed the story, and I loved Martin Shaw as Chauvelin and the whole segment about his daughter.

Shoot me...

[acampbell.livejournal.com]

But, I like the Black Adder version, "Nob and Nobility".

Re: Shoot me...

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Nothing wrong with that one either!