Comments on: Neville and The Coat http://robinbrande.com/reading/neville-and-the-coat For writers, readers, and independent thinkers--book talk for readers and writers, life chats when we need them, writers' motivational articles, secret behind-the-scenes stories from the publishing trenches, and more. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:44:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: annette http://robinbrande.com/reading/neville-and-the-coat#comment-389 annette Wed, 28 Jun 2006 23:05:58 +0000 http://robinbrande.com/reading/neville-and-the-coat#comment-389 patrick, just checking to see if you're paying attention. of course i know ian fleming. i'm just so used to reading his works in the original greek i didn't immediately recognize the english language reference to__6 (i'm sorry i don't have the greek alphabet on this keyboard). patrick, just checking to see if you’re paying attention. of course i know ian fleming. i’m just so used to reading his works in the original greek i didn’t immediately recognize the english language reference to__6 (i’m sorry i don’t have the greek alphabet on this keyboard).

]]> By: Patrick http://robinbrande.com/reading/neville-and-the-coat#comment-383 Patrick Wed, 28 Jun 2006 00:01:42 +0000 http://robinbrande.com/reading/neville-and-the-coat#comment-383 Oh, for Pete's sake...(I'm not sure who Pete is, but everyone else seems concerned about him, so why not) GOOGLE MI6... Some weird cult-thing... Have you heard of Ian Flemming? I need to have a talk with these wolves. Do you think they could pull a dogsled? Oh, for Pete’s sake…(I’m not sure who Pete is, but everyone else seems concerned about him, so why not)

GOOGLE MI6… Some weird cult-thing… Have you heard of Ian Flemming?

I need to have a talk with these wolves. Do you think they could pull a dogsled?

]]> By: robin http://robinbrande.com/reading/neville-and-the-coat#comment-382 robin Tue, 27 Jun 2006 22:27:33 +0000 http://robinbrande.com/reading/neville-and-the-coat#comment-382 Diana, you're way too harsh. Look, if you have as many teeth as Keira (sometimes it's like she needs a second mouth to hold them all), you have to laugh and smile all the time, or you're not getting your money's worth. And are you saying you don't think Matthew Macfayden is hot? Look, no one will ever touch Colin, but I think we have to give Matthew an independent look. And when he's walking across the moors or the heath or whatever, his own version of the white shirt untied at the top so we can actually see some skin, those long tall boots making him stride so manfully, The Coat fanning out like that--COME ON!!! But I do have a huge issue with the very last scene. Not necessarily because it wasn't in the book, but because it's way too sexual with Keira stroking Darcy's bare calf--oh no, no, no. NO. The whole point of why we love movies like this is because we get to imagine everything. If you give us skin on skin, might as well go full-out porn. That's the part I hate. Otherwise, I found much to love about the current movie. The first time I was lukewarm, but last night I watched it for the fourth time, and it really grows on me with each viewing. Sorry it's not doing that for you. Which is why you, I'm sure, as well as I own the 6-hour A & E version. Diana, you’re way too harsh. Look, if you have as many teeth as Keira (sometimes it’s like she needs a second mouth to hold them all), you have to laugh and smile all the time, or you’re not getting your money’s worth.

And are you saying you don’t think Matthew Macfayden is hot? Look, no one will ever touch Colin, but I think we have to give Matthew an independent look. And when he’s walking across the moors or the heath or whatever, his own version of the white shirt untied at the top so we can actually see some skin, those long tall boots making him stride so manfully, The Coat fanning out like that–COME ON!!!

But I do have a huge issue with the very last scene. Not necessarily because it wasn’t in the book, but because it’s way too sexual with Keira stroking Darcy’s bare calf–oh no, no, no. NO. The whole point of why we love movies like this is because we get to imagine everything. If you give us skin on skin, might as well go full-out porn. That’s the part I hate.

Otherwise, I found much to love about the current movie. The first time I was lukewarm, but last night I watched it for the fourth time, and it really grows on me with each viewing.

Sorry it’s not doing that for you. Which is why you, I’m sure, as well as I own the 6-hour A & E version.

]]> By: annette http://robinbrande.com/reading/neville-and-the-coat#comment-381 annette Tue, 27 Jun 2006 18:28:27 +0000 http://robinbrande.com/reading/neville-and-the-coat#comment-381 lizzie, your comment does nothing to assuage the weirdness or discomfort. (and by the way, i take issue with MY love of pipi being chacterized as weird. first, i don't love her "that" way, second, at least she's real.) and yes whatever that mi6 cult-thing that sue is involved in is also way weird. lizzie, your comment does nothing to assuage the weirdness or discomfort. (and by the way, i take issue with MY love of pipi being chacterized as weird. first, i don’t love her “that” way, second, at least she’s real.) and yes whatever that mi6 cult-thing that sue is involved in is also way weird.

]]> By: Diana http://robinbrande.com/reading/neville-and-the-coat#comment-379 Diana Tue, 27 Jun 2006 17:35:09 +0000 http://robinbrande.com/reading/neville-and-the-coat#comment-379 On Neville: I didn't even recognize him in the third movie. So tall and skinny! I wonder what the casting directors thought when their pudgy little Neville shot up like a weed! (let us not talk about the enormous crush Diana has on little Tommy Riddle in movie two.) On anything related to the 2005 version of P&P: hate. HATE. Hate. Hate. Hate. I even watched it last night to make sure I wasn't imagining. yep. Hate. I think Knightley was instructed to play Lizzie as if Lizzie had gone round the bend. She LAUGHS constantly. Like weird hysterical laughter. Hate. On Neville: I didn’t even recognize him in the third movie. So tall and skinny! I wonder what the casting directors thought when their pudgy little Neville shot up like a weed!

(let us not talk about the enormous crush Diana has on little Tommy Riddle in movie two.)

On anything related to the 2005 version of P&P: hate. HATE. Hate. Hate. Hate. I even watched it last night to make sure I wasn’t imagining. yep. Hate. I think Knightley was instructed to play Lizzie as if Lizzie had gone round the bend. She LAUGHS constantly. Like weird hysterical laughter. Hate.

]]> By: Patrick http://robinbrande.com/reading/neville-and-the-coat#comment-378 Patrick Tue, 27 Jun 2006 10:18:43 +0000 http://robinbrande.com/reading/neville-and-the-coat#comment-378 Yeah, sorry about that. I thought he was in his twenties just playing a kid or something. Turns out, today is his 17th birthday. Go figure. Happy birthday, Neville. Or is Sue being MI6 the weird uncomfortable part? Yeah, sorry about that. I thought he was in his twenties just playing a kid or something. Turns out, today is his 17th birthday. Go figure.

Happy birthday, Neville.

Or is Sue being MI6 the weird uncomfortable part?

]]> By: robin http://robinbrande.com/reading/neville-and-the-coat#comment-376 robin Tue, 27 Jun 2006 07:35:10 +0000 http://robinbrande.com/reading/neville-and-the-coat#comment-376 Lizzie, thanks for the tip, but Neville is just a boy. It takes a long time for a man to grow into Darcy's shirt or coat. Annette, after what you wrote about your obsession with Pippi Longstocking a few days ago, you have no standing to talk about weird. Sorry. Lizzie, thanks for the tip, but Neville is just a boy. It takes a long time for a man to grow into Darcy’s shirt or coat.

Annette, after what you wrote about your obsession with Pippi Longstocking a few days ago, you have no standing to talk about weird. Sorry.

]]> By: Lizzie http://robinbrande.com/reading/neville-and-the-coat#comment-375 Lizzie Tue, 27 Jun 2006 05:21:51 +0000 http://robinbrande.com/reading/neville-and-the-coat#comment-375 Under English common law, boys can be married at 14. This exists to an extent in America as well, but not where you live, sorry. Under English common law, boys can be married at 14. This exists to an extent in America as well, but not where you live, sorry.

]]> By: annette http://robinbrande.com/reading/neville-and-the-coat#comment-373 annette Tue, 27 Jun 2006 01:18:24 +0000 http://robinbrande.com/reading/neville-and-the-coat#comment-373 is it just me, or has this post started to become, ummm, uncomfortably weird? is it just me, or has this post started to become, ummm, uncomfortably weird?

]]> By: Patrick http://robinbrande.com/reading/neville-and-the-coat#comment-372 Patrick Tue, 27 Jun 2006 00:10:41 +0000 http://robinbrande.com/reading/neville-and-the-coat#comment-372 Is Sue listening to me right now? Is she CIA or MI6? *looks around house for a carefully hidden Sue* Is Sue listening to me right now? Is she CIA or MI6?

*looks around house for a carefully hidden Sue*

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