http://www.christandpopculture.com/featured/bright-star-dim-characters/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bright-star-dim-characters Where The Christian Faith Meets The Common Knowledge of Our Age Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:29:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.christandpopculture.com/featured/bright-star-dim-characters/#comment-65451 pgepps Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:18:04 +0000 http://www.christandpopculture.com/?p=4890#comment-65451 Honestly, not having seen the film (which I now wish to see, just because I am a major Keats fan as well as a Romanticist by profession), my initial reaction on seeing the subject of your review was, "What is there to dramatize about Keats and Brawne?" There's just not a lot to visualize, there; even if we did have Brawne's letters to draw on (and it may be a mercy to memory that we don't), it would be one seriously talky movie. The only really dramatic feature of Keats' gifted life was its brevity, and it seems likely that only that brevity kept his relationship with Brawne from turning into one of those embarrassing suppressions of youth--or, if they were luckier than they deserved, a rather prosaic marriage with occasional glimpses of the poetic affair they never quite had. Honestly, not having seen the film (which I now wish to see, just because I am a major Keats fan as well as a Romanticist by profession), my initial reaction on seeing the subject of your review was, “What is there to dramatize about Keats and Brawne?” There’s just not a lot to visualize, there; even if we did have Brawne’s letters to draw on (and it may be a mercy to memory that we don’t), it would be one seriously talky movie. The only really dramatic feature of Keats’ gifted life was its brevity, and it seems likely that only that brevity kept his relationship with Brawne from turning into one of those embarrassing suppressions of youth–or, if they were luckier than they deserved, a rather prosaic marriage with occasional glimpses of the poetic affair they never quite had.

]]> http://www.christandpopculture.com/featured/bright-star-dim-characters/#comment-53941 Carissa Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:31:03 +0000 http://www.christandpopculture.com/?p=4890#comment-53941 I haven't seen her version of <i>A Portrait of a Lady</i>, but I hear it's deadly dull . . . which might mean she's actually well-matched with the material there. (Sorry, Henry James. But not really.) I haven’t seen her version of A Portrait of a Lady, but I hear it’s deadly dull . . . which might mean she’s actually well-matched with the material there. (Sorry, Henry James. But not really.)

]]> http://www.christandpopculture.com/featured/bright-star-dim-characters/#comment-53932 The Dane Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:50:25 +0000 http://www.christandpopculture.com/?p=4890#comment-53932 How does Campion keep getting funding for films if she's this mismatched for the material she selects? How does Campion keep getting funding for films if she’s this mismatched for the material she selects?

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