Rebecca, Lost in Adaptation ~ The Dom

He sketches are awesome

Amy Poli

Oh, I forgot to mention I LOVED your sketches in this one. Some of your funniest and best-acted yet. Also, you look really good in a suit. ^^

Man, this sounds like the kind of book I would have eaten up in high school. I LOVED 19th and early 20th century novels about upper class Brits. Now that I'm older I have little patience for stuffy upper class white socialite society, nor the romantisation of controlling, emotionally distant dirtbags, and especially not the demonization of lesbians. Funny that the Hays Code forced the adapters to take a step forward in making Maxim more sympathetic, but take a step backward in demonizing and punishing Mrs Danvers for being an implied lesbian. Talk about a trade-off. =|

Oh my god, I think I read this book for a lit class at some point. I had completely forgotten but the more you described the plot, the more it came back.

FizzPlease

Now, that I think about it though. At least my crush just killed a woman. He didn't willfully imprison a woman for decades and treat a mentally ill woman like she was an animal like Rochester did.

As someone that who my teenage crush was Maxim de Winter (in the same way by friends went to Phantom or Spike from Buffy or if you count those a year or two younger Edward from Twilight). No ,there really isn't that much of an excuse as an adult to have fallen in love with him. He was this sexy Gothic bad boy to teenage me. He was tall, dark, handsome and titled dreamboat I wanted so much. It didn't matter that the second Mrs. de Winter was awkward and plain and way too in her own world; he loved her and she was the first person he had ever fallen in love with. She was better than the "perfect" Rebecca. Also, I still do really like Daphne du Maurier's writing style. Ultimately, it is at least less embarrassing that my teenage obsession was Rebecca over Twilight or Phantom (at least to my eye, but my other friend that fell in love with Mr. Rochester probably is better than me in that regard). I'm not sure the Daphne du Maurier intended Maxim to be the Byronic woobie I saw him as. From the second he insisted that both she and Mrs. Van Hopper have coffee with him, I was hooked. I've actually come to appreciate the movie more just because of the subtle moments of him being kind and affectionate in hindsight.

Thanks for not phrasing that "you forgot" even though I did lol. Youtube, in its infinite wisdom decided to discontinue the pop up text option awhile ago alas.

Dominic Noble

Still loved the review, I can watch your reviews over and over again withoug getting bored and am always super excited about a new one!^^

Saiyasha

I feel like I have to defend the Narrators Character a little. Because this having very detailed Fantasie about our future Children? I do that to. I think that is something very motherly Characters wih a lot of Imagination can do. I also do this with other situations, and yes, sometimes I notices myself pulling different facial features, depending on who, in my mind is speaking. I admit though, I am not doing this at breakfast. It mostly happens to me on trainrides when I listen to music and my Imagnation gets going.

Saiyasha

I agree - this is what I assumed when I watched it.

Yeah...the Honor Harrington series is much beloved by my parents. And apparently the first few books in the series are available for free on Amazon Kindle. That said, I'll admit it's not really my style.

Loved all the skits! You might want to add one of those pop up blurbs on the video about the narrator's visit to the dementia grandmother in the "left out" section - Since you've suggested that Maxim is suffering a memory deterioration in later years I now think this could be genetic considering the mental state of an elderly blood relative. Overall, another wonderful episode of LiA!!

Your Librarian

Thinking about Maxim - I don't claim to know much, but years ago I read a book all about J. M. Barrie and how messed up the guy was. (He might've killed his older brother, heavy evidence towards him being a pedophile, etc.) He was obsessed with Daphne's father, George du Maurier, so George was covered in the books and he seemed to be a pretty messed up dude himself. What I'm saying here is - Maxim might be based on dear old dad.

I always assumed that Rebecca was goading Max into killing her; one final 'fuck you, I'm using my last few months of life before the cancer kills me to make sure you get hanged' before she went; a version of killing herself. That's why the book's version of events, where he DOES commit murder always made more sense to me. The accidental death is too convenient, and if it hadn't happened I could only assume she would have kept pushing him until he did it, or at the least fake her death to look like he'd killed her. Not that it excuses the utter prick that is Maxim DeWinter. Great stuff as always, Dom!

Tim Bates

Oh, and by the way Dom, I would highly recommend that you read Daphne du Maurier short story, The Birds. Not only is it very good but if you're at all familiar with Hitchcock's film you will be quite amazed.

Kim Huett

It is possible my dear Dom that Daphne du Maurier allowed certain things in her book because she grew up at a time when it was still possible to consider the gentry to be somehow better than everybody else and thus to be deserving of the sort of free pass we would never consider today. So for example it's possible that to her it would be entirely reasonable that rural police would tug their forelocks and willing allow a couple of gentlemen to take over their murder investigation.

Kim Huett

I don't know why, but you hiding behind a paper with the headline "OYSTERS GALORE!" elevates everything.

Ghilz

Overall, pretty good. No complaints or nitpicks on my end.

You let your perfectionist flag fly! This is why I enjoy your videos so much. I was dimly aware of the movie and completely unaware of the book. (yes, I am an English major, but honestly preferred Russian lit!) However the video was engaging, funny and made me want to seek out both regardless of the fact that I know everything in detail. You have come a very long way from your earliest videos which were quite good to begin with! I'm very happy and proud to be your Patreon!

David Perez

Screw it im doing it. Damn my perfectionism!

Dominic Noble

this is like a reward for being off work this afternoon

I think I messed up the survey result slightly. Is it worth re-uploading for that do you think?

Dominic Noble