Re: Dumb Britain

by Nightjar Sun Feb 18, 2024 8:44 pm

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

Q: Who is the main protagonist of Charles Dickens' novel Gr8 Expectations?

a) Oliver Twist?
b) Philip 'Pip' Pirrip?
c) David Copperfield?
d) Nicholas Nickleby?

Contestant:

"I'm not sure.

I'm torn between A and B - although it could be C...

I'll have to ask the audience"

Audience average:

a) 10%
b) 40%
c) 30%
d) 20%

Colbert

by cosmictanya Tue Feb 20, 2024 8:35 pm

David Copperfield is my favourite. It was on Drama a couple of Sundays ago. Daniel Radcliffe was such a cute kid. Maggie Smith and Pauline Quirks performances had me in tears. I wanted to turn Zoe Wanamakers Jane Murdstone violently onto the streets myself, and have Mr Murdstone transported to the colonies.

by Nightjar Tue Feb 20, 2024 8:40 pm

Gert 'Stations for oye.

by Fangirl Three Wed Feb 21, 2024 7:09 am

Great Expectations is the better book, but Nicholas Nickleby is the one I actually prefer to read.

I fell out of love with the D-Copp because I simply cannot believe in 'David the novelist'.

by Nightjar Wed Feb 21, 2024 12:36 pm

I'm basing my opinions solely on the David Lean screen adaptation.

On reflection, I can't recall ever reading a Dickens novel of any sort or stripe.

by cosmictanya Wed Feb 21, 2024 1:00 pm

I haven’t read them either. I do actually own a copy of A Christmas Carol and I had an illustrated Oliver Twist I liked leafing through, but I’ve never read a Dickens novel. I go on the television adaptions.

For Oliver, I don’t think the black and white David Lean adaption can be beaten.

by Fangirl Three Wed Feb 21, 2024 1:22 pm

I've read all of them except Barnaby Rudge and Martin Chuzzlewit.

by Nightjar Wed Feb 21, 2024 1:37 pm

cosmictanya wrote:I haven’t read them either. I do actually own a copy of A Christmas Carol and I had an illustrated Oliver Twist I liked leafing through, but I’ve never read a Dickens novel. I go on the television adaptions.

For Oliver, I don’t think the black and white David Lean adaption can be beaten.

Have you seen his version of GE, CT?

It's even better.

IMO, that is.

OT is really good as well though.

by cosmictanya Wed Feb 21, 2024 2:09 pm

No, I haven’t, I’ll look it up, I have great expectations that it’s probably on YouTube. Until I no longer had a video recorder I had the OT video which I’d had for years. It’s the best version, I’ve watched it many times. I particularly loved the bleak scene of Oliver’s mother battling through a storm while in labour. Very atmospheric.

by Nightjar Mon Feb 26, 2024 4:35 pm

Tipping Point

Q: In which play by Oscar Wilde does the central character say that he was found, as a baby, in a handbag at Victoria Station?

A: The Rocky Horror Show?

by cosmictanya Mon Feb 26, 2024 10:26 pm

How thick can you get. Everyone knows that was Paddington Bear.

by Fangirl Three Tue Feb 27, 2024 5:24 am

Indeed all the references to cucumber sandwiches in that play are code, for marmalade sandwiches.

by Nightjar Fri Mar 08, 2024 4:25 pm

Tipping Point

Q: The North Pole experiences constant daylight during the Summer months due to light being emitted by which celestial object?

A: The eye?

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Mar 08, 2024 4:41 pm

Perhaps they know something the rest of us don't. scared

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Fri Mar 08, 2024 5:12 pm

Was it Empedocles?

by Nightjar Sun Mar 10, 2024 8:42 pm

The Chase - Celebrity Special

Q: Which of these authors wrote their first novel in 1995 whilst living in a bedsit as a single parent, on unemployment benefit and their seventh and the final novel of a popular series of novels in 2007?

Options:

1) Gilly Cooper?
2) J.K. Rowling?
3) Jane Austen?

Contestant: Jane Austen?

by Fangirl Three Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:36 am

Wrote her first novel with an advance publishing deal, in a coffee shop owned by her brother-in-law.

by Nightjar Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:06 pm

I'm just repeating what I remember of the question, Lady.

Don't drag me down into TERFdom. MicroCliff

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