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08-02-2016, 09:41 AM
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Respect for the dead?

They were in shock, but not enough in shock. Whatever they'd been through they were essentially unchanged, (lessons had not been learned).
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08-02-2016, 09:49 AM
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Now that I have seen the TV version, do I need to carry on reading the book?
I suppose I could find and watch the black and white film version.
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08-02-2016, 09:57 AM
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Dip into the book and see if you think it's worth it. Better than the TV version of course but time-consuming.

I'm still laughing about Mama having to darn her own stockings.

That last scene looked like an ad, didn't it?
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08-02-2016, 05:30 PM
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Being a man of means, Pierre had a few spares.
What I want to know, is why were they all whispering? I had the volume turned well up. (And the hearing aid).
I find the sound on a lot of TV drama's needs sorting out, music far too loud & when anyone talks, the sound is so low you can't hear them. Not just on War & Peace either, a lot of the programs.
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08-02-2016, 05:43 PM
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Now that I have seen the TV version, do I need to carry on reading the book?
I suppose I could find and watch the black and white film version.
Is that the 1956 film version with Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer?
Saw that ages ago and loved it.
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08-02-2016, 07:22 PM
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We use the subtitles option which is now available on most programmes.
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08-02-2016, 09:47 PM
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We use the subtitles option which is now available on most programmes.
Good idea.
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09-02-2016, 07:23 AM
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Well, I've watched it all

The production was first class, and I'm sure it was true to the book. But I found it dreary, tedious, over-long, and somehow uninvolving. (Is that a word? I think you'll know what I mean)

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I agree about uninvolving (and in that I think true to the book), I know we are supposed to sympathise with Pierre and Natasha but I couldn't really care about them.

It was funny when it wasn't meant to be.
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11-02-2016, 09:58 PM
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I liked the ending, it was a happy one, after what they had all been through.
I don't think I'll bother to get the DVD's though.
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12-02-2016, 08:29 AM
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Happy for those rich few.

(The dead soon forgotten.)

Not so happy for the majority.
 
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