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No, I haven't yet and I was actually waiting for you to mention an adaptation so I can look into it. :D It's okay if it's not that accurate. I'd love a real life romance anytime! I want to see how they show Prince Albert as an unfavoured prince and Victoria as an active monarch.

Oh tall is the right word. I feel awfully small when I look at them and I'm barely 5'. ._.

I did a bit of reading on 'A Royal Affair', particularly about Christian VII who was described as 'mentally unstable'. He was sexually promiscuous and that led to the neglect of the Queen and eventually she had the adulterous relationship with the King's doctor.

It's too bad the Council regained power and got reinstated at court and the movie just passingly discussed how Frederick overthrew the old power and took hold of ruling the country. That would have made a better half of the story.

Oh wow, Queen Victoria marrying off her nine children who carried and inherited her weird disease! I didn't know that! Found it interesting too that she and Prince Albert had a harmonious relationship (what, with 9 children and all!) and she was deeply affected when he passed away. Now THAT is rare!

Lee Pace, Lee Pace...why does he sounds familiar? Ahh I now remember you mentioning it to me. I wonder if he and RA really are a couple :D Though I'd pretty much love RA for myself, thank you! XD XD

Q__Q I didn't know Lee Pace is so handsome with a beard and mustache! He just looks so erm...beautiful with long blonde hair and a clean-shaven face! I see good comments about Soldier's Girl...very interesting plot!

There's part two! :D

Hahahaha~! XD You'd need watch Matthew Macfadyen in a movie where his hair isn't curly. That will take your mind off the curly curls! XD

There's about a fourth of the movie left and now I feel sympathetic to the king. Why are kings that way?! If they're not foppish, they're loonies or have some obscure disease that only kings contract. :P But yes, I feel all these kinds of contradictions in their awkward and unwanted triangle, and the political interests of every single person that surrounds them.

Gosh, I feel like a total RA fan girl now! Q__Q This is bad. I'm addicted!

Yes, about the movie! I haven't seen the steamy scenes yet but I can feel the sexual tension between the doctor and Her Majesty beginning to develop. It's great to see that their attraction stems from the similarity of their political sentiments and the conducive condition that they were in. But I don't know what'll happen next. Betting they'll probably get their heads rolling off from the guillotine! O__o They had guillotines around that time, I think...

XD Have you seen Matthew's pics in Anna Karenina? I thought with a bowler hat, a monocle and a cane he'd be Johnnie Walker! XD XD

Hmmm...I am thinking Robin Hood since you said he was good in it or his recent movies: Captain America and the first two installations of the Hobbit movies. I understand his career is mainly built upon his past roles as second male lead. :\ So if I'm to watch more of his works, I guess I'm in for more heartbreaks. But thank goodness he's gaining more recognition for his acting. Hopefully he gets meatier roles moving forward.

Augh! My message went too long again! On to part 2!

Have finished Sparkhouse and thought Andrew was a sorry SOB. But other than that the movie wasn't half as bad as I expected it to be. Q__Q The local adaptation was heavier and more vengeful than this one. Sparkhouse just made me want more RA ;) Huwaaa!

I started watching A Royal Affair and noticed the movie is over 2 hours! I have to pause it for now and watch the remaining 2/3 of it later. (Gotta catch some zzzs!) But I can feel the tension already mounting. The costumes are really detailed and the landscape is superb and everything about this movie captures elegance and royalty at the very essence of the words.

Also, I appreciate that the political flavor being there without overpowering the and rather provides a solid backdrop of what was happening in neighboring parts of Europe. Am expecting to get a heart attack tomorrow over this! O__O

Oohh yeeaah~! The first time I saw this pic I was just--arrested. His whole countenance is just charming. Q___Q

Oh my, high five! XD Curls and beautiful eyes turn my knees to jelly. And you might have seen Matthew Macfadyen in Anna Karenina--he looked like a totally different person! XD He was a knockout with his long-ish hair in P&P 2005 movie and if minus his mustache and beard, he'd look like Alan Rickman in The Three Musketeers. :D

I don't know if RA has natural curls but I like his pics from Sparkhouse. Very attractive. http://www.picshare.ru/uploads/130414/xXx6wmC6I8.gif

Hi! Thanks for the friend request! Nice list you have there! Hope you're enjoying it here at MDL! ^-^

Oh yeah, the RIGHT curls. I must tell you, I have a thing for curly hair! XD XD But I didn't find it particularly appealing on Colin Firth...I don't know why! XD

But to see them in the suits, cravat and breeches! The charms of an Englishman. <3 <3

You might be in for a surprise.

Oh my dear! Any fan of Richard Armitage is a welcome friend! :D *Squeeeeaal!* I love North and South as well! Actually my obsession for English costume dramas recently began when I read Pride & Prejudice and never knew what N&S was until an esteemed MDLer recommended it to me. Oh my, watching it did NOT prepare me to fall for Richard Armitage!

And come to think of it, I'm exhausted of watching Asian dramas as of the moment and that has brought me to BBC dramas! XD

I think Mrs. Gaskell intended to follow the way she entitled her first book (by giving the spotlight to the female protagonist in the story), but I agree with you, there could never have been a more apt title than North & South.

We have a regional publication in the North like that where writers come out with a serialized novel, publishing one chapter a month. But nowadays the novels hardly become books anymore. The ones that had more chances of becoming movies though were the old serialized comics (usually melodramatic ones). Those kind are just too weird for me.

I adore Colin Firth there and to see his long legs under tangled with the bedsheets. What a sight to behold! XD I can't stand a weak female lead much more an idiotic one. Ugh.

It is so weird to see that you messaged me 17 hours ago and here I kept on checking at MDL to see if you wrote me one! :P

I tried to watch Bridget Jones' Diary 1 and 2 where Colin Firth played the other Mr. Darcy--the man is sexiness. Q__Q Ah, but I couldn't stand her in 2! I had to stop a number of times because I just couldn't take all the embarrassment!

Smashing indeed! XD

And have I got some trivia for you! While I was trying to read the Introduction of North and South, I noticed that Mrs. Gaskell wrote that the novel got revised and a few chapters were added. I was confused and had to make sure I was reading what she intended to write that I read the wikipedia page. I found out that N&S was originally serialized in a publication where *surprise* Charles Dickens was Mrs. Gaskell's editor! Dickens actually criticized her work and made her and she was challenged by his 'Hard Times' (which is apparently also a social novel).

But then, I think he did her a favor because she owes it to Dickens that her novel was entitled, 'North and South', as opposed to what she wanted, 'Margaret Hale'. Dickens said the title would be integral to the contrast of polar cities as well as the differences of the protagonists in the story.

Hahaha! XD I can see from the yt clips he's naughtily handsome. :D

I saw an RA interview yesterday where he was asked about what he thought of Tolkien's works and his answers were very insightful! And it made me like him all the more because he analyzed what Tolkien went through at that time and how his life experiences reflected and affected his works. I think he said something about the Jews as an underlying I thought he was profound!

Thanks, I think I'll start the book hunt on local second-hand book shops. ;) I'm sure I'll find them.

I honestly expected more (esp. from Ms. Wade and Tattycoram) but in retrospect, I think I'm generally satisfied at how the characters turned out and the way the revelations unfolded. Monsieur Blandois literally brought the House of Clennam upon him LOL and I got satisfied with that. Mrs. Clennam miraculously getting up from her wheelchair, finding Amy and ordering her to open the letter and asking if she could forgive her was I think the closest she ever got to admitting she loved her son and that she wanted him to forgive her.

I liked how they showed a parallel when Mrs. Clennam was about to leave the house; it somehow echoed the feeling of anxiety that Mr. Dorrit felt when he stood looking outside the gates of the Marshallsea.

I could see the nepotism and red tape at the Circumlocution office and am very much reminded of the local government offices here--bureaucratic and farcical.

My dear, I've finished Little Dorrit this morning and even though I was busy all day, it still had this lingering effect on me. The actor who played William Dorrit is a brilliant actor! I had tears in my eyes when he lost it in Mrs. Merdle's farewell party in Venice. I thought Charles Dickens had many layers of social truth and criticism in his time and meshing them together must have been a challenge.

I wasn't completely sold on the romance although that was understandable since the story had a lot of secondary characters to develop.

Oh another heist movie.

(here I found the game! XD http://thefrencharmitagearmy.wordpress.com/2012/04/18/richard-armitage-characters-click-and-drag-game/) They were flashing so fast I couldn't read their names and the only one I got was "Sleeping with: Thorin Oakenshield" lmfao

I had to tell you, I was laughing so hard yesterday XD ah but as soon as I started on Little Dorrit, I got hooked again! And not only that, I downloaded books on our tablet North and South and Persuasion are already on there. I'll add Little Dorrit and Anne of Green Gables series if they're free too. I tried JRR Tolkien's works but not only were they all paid copies, they were expensive too. O_O If only I could get hold of the real books, I'd be in heaven.