Shocking Pink ([info]fionnghuala) wrote,
@ 2008-04-02 19:11:00
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Current mood: Obsessed with Derren Brown

There'll be No. Butter. In. Hell !!!
Finally saw Cold Comfort Farm last night, after almost a year of expectations. There were fantastic moments, like realising that Stephen Fry was playing Mr Mybug, and essentially is him in real life. But overall I was a bit disappointed. The humour wasn't relentless enough, and a lot of the low-key charm was pushed a bit, too. Even the no butter in hell line, possibly one of the funniest in the entire universe, was a bit too Made For TV :(

This is a bit of a limp entry. All the cool entries in my head require a bit too much commitment for my current, failing-to-get-any-work-done mode of operation.

PS: Donna Haraway rocks my socks.




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[info]doctor_nemesis
2008-04-02 06:55 pm UTC (link)
I forgot to mention, since butter makes burns worse, there probably will be butter in hell!

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[info]fionnghuala
2008-04-03 03:13 pm UTC (link)
This is what wikipedia has to say about it being set in the future, btw...

Futurism



An aspect of the novel overlooked by many recent adaptations is that the story was set in the future. Although the book was published in 1932, the setting is an unspecified near future, containing developments that Gibbons thought might have been invented by then, such as TV phones and air taxis. The book also refers (usually facetiously) to future social/demographic changes, such as the degradation of Mayfair into a slum district. She did seem to have predicted a Second World War - the "the Anglo-Nicaraguan wars of '46" are alluded to in the experiences of some characters - but she probably did not appreciate the scale of that war. Nor can her 'futurism' anticipate social changes during and after that war which rendered some of the book's attitudes to class and Jews archaic.

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[info]doctor_nemesis
2008-04-04 08:33 am UTC (link)
Yes, I read that. Hence your comment about the plan being "futuristic". I don't think that's true in the film though, since they'd ditched all futurism in favour of 1930's style. I think he has a plane because he's well off and a little more adventurous than Flora gave him credit for!

As for heli-taxis...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9633v6U0wo

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