Movie: Far From the Madding Crowd
PG-13, 1 hour 59 minutes
In a Nutshell: Based on the classic 1874 novel by Thomas Hardy, Victorian England presents us with a romantic setting for a proper Chick Flick where men fall all over themselves for a beautiful, self-reliant woman.
We’ll never see Twilight fans line up for Team Gabriel vs. Team William or Team Frank, but Jane Austin fans and those needing a Downton Abbey fix will give an approving nod. Gabriel is a total stud-muffin. Just sayin.
– I’ve never read the novel, but I hear that Danish director Thomas Vinterberg stays true to the source material.
– Beautiful cinematography that captures the magic of the English countryside. I was just in England this month! We saw sheep everywhere as we traveled through the Cotswolds and into Wales.
Here’s one of my pictures:
· It was so sad to see the sheep mindlessly follow each other jump off the cliff. People are like that sometimes too, don’t you think?
· It’s hard to feel sympathy for a beautiful woman who has so many suitors.
– It’s a little slow-moving, although time passes fairly quickly for the characters.
·“Mr. Oak, I don’t want a husband. I’d hate to be some man’s property. I shouldn’t mind being a bride at a wedding if I could be one without getting a husband.” – Bathsheba
– “I have some interesting pigs.” – William Boldwood
Did you know?
– The author of the original book took the title from Thomas Gray’s poem “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” dated 1751. It reads:
Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife
Their sober wishes never learn’d to stray;
Along the cool sequester’d vale of life
They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
– “Madding” means “frenzied”
· Most children will be pretty bored. Teenage girls, on the other hand, will probably eat it up.
– There is a bedroom scene, but you don’t see much and it occurs after the couple is married.
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