Carrie Mount wrote a new post, The Victoria Assassin Club, on the site...
In watching The Young Victoria, I was struck by the scene near the end involving the assassination attempt on Victoria. I wondered what licenses the filmmakers took with that event. In my research,...
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I find it interesting that the fact that she held so much power is the very reason she was enthralled to others. It seems her mother’s entire Kensington System was designed around making her dependent...
View ArticleCarrie Mount commented on the post, Paul Bettany: Too Young for Melbourne, on...
I noticed the age difference as well. However, the way I thought of it was the film trying to express Victoria’s psychology. I would think that if Victoria expressed an interest in him, not only would...
View ArticleCarrie Mount wrote a new post, Joe Wright’s Omniscient Phantom, on the site...
In watching the scene involving the Netherfield Ball, the director Joe Wright was confronted with a cinematic quandary that he proceeded to answer with a technique distinctively present in all of his...
View ArticleCarrie Mount commented on the post, Indian Traditions and 18th Century...
While it is true that she goes against her mother’s wishes, Darcy’s fortune certainly greases the wheels on any disagreements from her mother. I would be interested to know how the story would have...
View ArticleCarrie Mount commented on the post, Helping Audiences Connect,...
I do find it interesting that Regency manners and customs share so many similarities to Indian culture. Certainly the culture of the Bakshi daughters is modern, but the ideas of their mother seems...
View ArticleCarrie Mount commented on the post, La Madagascar!, on the site Erica's...
Certainly I agree with you about the element of fairy tale, since a vast majority of marriages don’t end up with a girl marrying the man she loves who is fabulously wealthy and intelligent. However...
View ArticleCarrie Mount wrote a new post, Inhuman People, All Too Human Love, on the...
When I first started reading Wuthering Heights for the first time, I admit I hated it. I couldn’t understand why this novel was so popular when no facet of its characters and very little of its plot...
View ArticleCarrie Mount commented on the post, "Abismos de Pasion" Review, on the site...
I agree that the setting and changes allowed for a new perspective. Catalina’s character is much more blunt in this version as she handles guns, out and out tells Isabel over and over not to marry...
View ArticleCarrie Mount commented on the post, Review of Buñuel’s Abismos de pasión, on...
While I agree with your statements overall, I would argue that Bunuel’s (I can’t make the tilde on top of the N) choice of setting is rather apt. He is working in Mexico for a Spanish speaking...
View ArticleCarrie Mount commented on the post, Buñel's Abismos de Pasion, on the site...
I agree that the film, In its own right, is good. It also doesn’t quite measure up to the depth of the novel, obviously because it focuses on the love story and ignored many of the generational themes....
View ArticleCarrie Mount wrote a new post, Was blind but now I see..., on the site...
“Ethne!” he said, with some surprise in his voice. And since again no answer came, he rose and walked towards the chair in which Ethne had sat… His hands felt for and grasped the back of the chair…...
View ArticleCarrie Mount commented on the post, Surveillance in Oliver Twist, on the site...
I like your points about escaping surveillance. Fagin has to leave his own home to not be heard, and even then, as you quote “a few disjointed words here and there” were distinguishable (DIckens 178)....
View ArticleCarrie Mount commented on the post, The Fear of Surveillance , on the site...
I also found the adults filled with cowardice to be disturbing. They are putting children out on the streets to do the dirty week in an attempt to remove themselves from surveillance. Not only are they...
View ArticleCarrie Mount commented on the post, Des Langues Sénégalaise, on the site...
I found your points about diction very interesting. I hadn’t really noticed that before though thinking back I had felt a subliminal sense of restriction which makes sense given the extensive word...
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Carrie Mount wrote a new post, Fagin as a paper tiger in 2005 Oliver Twist,...
Ben Kingsley’s Fagin from Roman Polanski’s Oliver Twist (2005) is a paper tiger. He is more impotent than the Fagin I imagined from a reading of Oliver Twist colored by years of his character being a...
View ArticleCarrie Mount commented on the post, Des Langues Sénégalaise, on the site Tess...
I agree that he is much more ambiguous in the 2005 movie. He seems to have a genuine caring for his boys and most of his evil deeds come off as rooted in fear of Sikes or death. Certainly he is not a...
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I find it interesting that Fagin doesn’t necessarily meet the stereotypes of appearance for a Jew (except those applied to him in the Polanski films, yet he is still money obsessed. It makes me wonder...
View ArticleCarrie Mount commented on the post, Analyzing Fagin, on the site pmcgowan
I also found that Fagin was less villainous in the movie. All of his evil actions seemed to originate from fear of Sikes or dying on the gallows. Admittedly, a man ruled by fear, I believe, is at once...
View ArticleCarrie Mount commented on the post, Inner Beauty vs. Outer Beauty, on the...
I’m not sure I agree with you that the close-ups were meant to show Elizabeth/Keira Knightley’s face that way. Joe Wright uses Keira Knightley all the time, and in movies he does with less...
View ArticleCarrie Mount commented on the post, Surprise, surprise, Tim's using Johnny...
I’m not sure I agree. I actually analyzed this film for a class last year and found that the reason the Mad Hatter’s presence was so much greater in this version was because of the binary system Burton...
View ArticleCarrie Mount commented on the post, Timothy Spall being type-cast as Fagin,...
I find your Harry Potter comparison interesting. I personally would have chosen his role in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street from the same year to be more revealing. He plays the Beadle...
View ArticleCarrie Mount commented on the post, Carroll's Filmic Novel, on the site...
I partially agree with Kara. I would use Bluestone to suggest that the illogical temporality of Alice in Wonderland makes it not filmic. I would concede that it is a very visual novel, but even the...
View ArticleCarrie Mount commented on the post, Tim Burton's Alice and Mulvey's Gaze, on...
I’m not sure I agree with you on the idea of the audience being on the same plane as Alice. With your reference to the drink me, eat me scene, sure, there are people who didn’t know that would happen...
View ArticleCarrie Mount commented on the post, The Gaze in Alice in Wonderland, on the...
I agree with your analysis of the camera always shifting to match Alice’s gaze. In addition to the croquet scene, i would also discuss the mad hatter scene, when she is eventually about the size of the...
View ArticleCarrie Mount commented on the post, The Older Sister, on the site Books...
I’m actually dealing with binaries in my paper and most of my sources indicate that the Red Queen is the mother of Hamish while the white queen (with a little less agreement)is generally her sister who...
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Carrie Mount wrote a new post, Complexity through Simplicity: Epistemology in...
How do you know? It is a question that confounds philosophers the world over and is a study in and of itself: epistemology. For one of the most complex topics of philosophy to be found in the...
View ArticleCarrie Mount commented on the post, Alice's Kiss With Death, on the site...
I like your idea, though taking it further, as Alice grows and shrinks and is otherwise symbolically growing older, she is gaining maturity. But by growing older, she confronts her own mortality,...
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