David Copperfield, PBS
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temperance14Wish I'd known this would be on---I was trying to describe this to S&B, and I think B.
1999 BBC version. You know the story:
Harry Potter is born to the young bride Georgiana Darcy. His Aunt, Minerva McGonagal, comes to visit, but refuses to be godmother because he is a boy. His father dies, and his mother remarries to a cruel man, with a cruel sister Madame Hooch....
...and as I type this, we are at the wonderful scene when Wicked Stepfather and Evil Step Aunt have come to Dover at Prof. McGonagal's home, and Hooch and McGonagal are getting into each others' faces....
..but before all this occurs, he is enrolled at school and beaten by headmaster Gandalf, and when he is sent to pack tins of blacking in London, he encounters the perpetually poor Eddie Valiant (who will be promoted to Mr. Fezziwig this year) and his devoted wife, Dolores Umbridge, who are the ones who urge him to go to Dover to his aunt.
Oh yes, and for sometime he lives near the sea with his mother's old servant, and part of the household is Queenie's Olde Nursie. And they might be living at Newcastle, for that's the song that's played when he arrives. No, no dancing, just the music. They are too busy being honest, hard working, poor and miserable. That takes a lot of time out of your schedule.
The first half is the best, although in part II, when he is an adult and no longer Harry Potter, he will rent a room from the Fat Lady in the Painting II aka Mrs. Forcible.
All this is narrated by Carmine Falcone of Gotham.
I love BBC and Brit movies...it's such a small neighborhood.
1999 BBC version. You know the story:
Harry Potter is born to the young bride Georgiana Darcy. His Aunt, Minerva McGonagal, comes to visit, but refuses to be godmother because he is a boy. His father dies, and his mother remarries to a cruel man, with a cruel sister Madame Hooch....
...and as I type this, we are at the wonderful scene when Wicked Stepfather and Evil Step Aunt have come to Dover at Prof. McGonagal's home, and Hooch and McGonagal are getting into each others' faces....
..but before all this occurs, he is enrolled at school and beaten by headmaster Gandalf, and when he is sent to pack tins of blacking in London, he encounters the perpetually poor Eddie Valiant (who will be promoted to Mr. Fezziwig this year) and his devoted wife, Dolores Umbridge, who are the ones who urge him to go to Dover to his aunt.
Oh yes, and for sometime he lives near the sea with his mother's old servant, and part of the household is Queenie's Olde Nursie. And they might be living at Newcastle, for that's the song that's played when he arrives. No, no dancing, just the music. They are too busy being honest, hard working, poor and miserable. That takes a lot of time out of your schedule.
The first half is the best, although in part II, when he is an adult and no longer Harry Potter, he will rent a room from the Fat Lady in the Painting II aka Mrs. Forcible.
All this is narrated by Carmine Falcone of Gotham.
I love BBC and Brit movies...it's such a small neighborhood.
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Date: 2009-03-16 07:31 pm (UTC)The overlap of British actors through recent years is indeed amusing.