Rebecca

Shehzeen · Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 7:01 am Post subject: Rebecca

This is a recent book i hav read by Daphne Du Maurier.
Its simply fascinating and i just cant stop thinking about it. Has any1 else read it?

ImmortalMadness · Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 8:00 am Post subject:

What's it about?

Tame Swallow · Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 9:48 am Post subject:

Yes Shehz - I read it a long time ago - a very good read and a film was made of it - a mystery murder. It was in black and white so shows its age.

Sugar Plum · Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 9:51 am Post subject:

Yes Shehz Rebecca is a very good story..

you should try some of Daphne Du Maurier other stories she wrote a good one called The Birds that Alfred Hitchcok made into a film as well.

Shehzeen · Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 11:36 am Post subject:

Its a very different kind of book immortal. Wats very fascinating is that the character Rebecca is dead and she is often referred in the book by the heroine whose real name isnt mentioned.
Ya i heard of the movie but im not sure if its available here or not. Ill try to see. Thanx sugar ill try to search for the book.
I hear there is another one 'Mrs. D winter' Currently im searching for that. Smile

shehtaz huq · Waiter Joined: 07 Jan 2007 Posts: 33 Location: bangladesh

You forgot to mention that. Anyway, i think it's a brilliant book. It does get melodramatic towards the climax, when Maxim is telling Mrs de Winter how he murdered...well, you know. But trust me, anything is less melodramatic than Wuthering Heights. My literature teacher calls it a typical romantic novel. Hyperbolic. I don't know what that means, but i'll give her the benefit of the doubt. Very Happy

Bebi · Maitre d' Joined: 23 Jul 2006 Posts: 277 Location: UK

shehtaz huq · Waiter Joined: 07 Jan 2007 Posts: 33 Location: bangladesh

that explains why my literature teacher kept saying 'hyperbolic'. thanks a lot! Very Happy

Bebi · Maitre d' Joined: 23 Jul 2006 Posts: 277 Location: UK

Teachers like big words it makes them look cleverer Laughing

Vivianxoxo · Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 2:17 am Post subject:

my cousin JUST got an account on here, her name's rebecca, i thought this was gonna be a post by her about how shes new!!! lol

Amused Quail · Patron Joined: 22 Sep 2006 Posts: 9 Location: Poland

Hey!!! I've seen the movie!!! I like everything by Daphne Du Maurier Smile

Some of her novels and stories have their screen adaptations, i.e.
REBECCA, 1938 - suom. - film 1940, dir. by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders. Rebecca was one of the top five box-office hits of 1940 and won Academy Awards for Best Picture and Cinematography. However, all reviews were not positive: "Dave Selznick's picture is too tragic and deeply psychological to hit the fancy of wide audience appeal... General audiences will tab it as a long-drawn out drama that could have been told better in less footage." (Variety, March 27. 1940) Du Maurier herself did not like the film, which shifted the locale from Cornwall to America. - TV serial in 1979 and 1997

from: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/dumaurie.htm

as well as "MY COUSIN RACHEL" (starring Geraldine Chaplin),

"THE BIRDS" (of course!),

and my beloved "DON'T LOOK NOW"
Has anyone seen the latter?? One of the best movies ever. For those who like to be afraid but are not particularly keen on special effects. Here the tension is built through a unique atmosphere (Venice in autumn/fall is by no means such a friendly place we know from our holiday trips!!!) and by a deliberate use of colours... or at least one colour Wink

The film director used to be a camera operator before, and this fact is reflected in wonderful pictures and the overall artistic impression.

Here is a link to some data about the movie:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069995/

Having seen the film I rushed to read the story - there are more plots in the movie, but the very text by Daphne explains a lot (I had to review my initial attempt of interpreting the reasons behind in terms of guilt and punishment Smile

)

Nowadays I'm reading (or not, due to the lack of time Sad

) some other short stories by this author,
i.e. "THE BLUE LENSES", "THE APPLE TREE".

Shehzeen - I remember my own reaction to "Rebecca". Actually, only years later did I realize that the most impressive movies of my early years ( Wink

) had been based on the writings of one author...

Shehzeen · Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 2:26 pm Post subject:

Wow i didnt know it was also a TV series. And thanx for the info on the other books Quail.
The only problem is these movies are not available in our country but i still wish i cud see it.

Roman Centurion · Head Waiter Joined: 04 Jul 2006 Posts: 90

The movie was apparently different from the novel, in that the murder was made out as more of an accident than premeditated. That was so the hero would be more heroic.

It's interesting to see how a movie and a book differ from each other, sometimes in radically different ways.

Shehzeen · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 2:56 pm Post subject:

True indeed Roman. The perfect example is harry potter.

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