Grump

[mme_hardy]

Hubster and I started watching the 1997 feature-length adaptation of The Woman In White last night.  We gave up after ten minutes.  I was already upset that Marian was not only played by a pretty woman, but was made up as a pretty woman, thus butchering a premise.   We switched to Midsomer Murders shortly after a 5-minute scene (in a feature-length movie!) was taken up by Walter discussing the death of Lizzie Siddall and Rossetti's burying his poems with her corpse.

First, and most important, when you're adapting a novel as jam-packed with plot as TWIW, interpolating scenes about nothing in particular is really stupid.   

Second, TWIW was published in 1859, while Lizzie Siddall didn't die until 1862.  Indeed, she wasn't even Mrs. Rossetti until 1860.

Postscript:  Oh, wow, did we dodge a bullet.  I just looked up that adaptation on Wikipedia, and here's the last scene:

Back at Limmeridge, the sisters' uncle Fairlie makes a public announcement that Mr. Hartright was falsely accused. It is revealed that a conspiracy led to Laura's name appearing on Anne's grave marker and to the false imprisonment of Laura. Hartright announces his engagement to Laura, who has been restored to sanity. Laura and Mr. Hartright marry and have two children. At the end, Marian reflects that her father's abuse of Anne's mother started a cycle of abuse. Marian picks up her niece and prays that the cycle has ended.

Comments

[movingfinger]

How heartwarming!

[mme_hardy]

A tale torn from today's headlines!

[wordweaverlynn]

WHUT. This sounds like the Demi Moore version of The Scarlet Letter.

[kore]

Second, TWIW was published in 1859, while Lizzie Siddall didn't die until 1862. Indeed, she wasn't even Mrs. Rossetti until 1860.

This is why we <333 you.

[mme_hardy]

To be fair, I did look up the details ; while watching, I just had my CHRONOLOGY IS WRONG flag go up.