“Why is it that women have chosen to sew such flags, and then to lay It’s a wonderful, exaggerated pose of machismo, one that makes the dread of his bride-to-be all the more relatable.
Twenty years ago, Scott played a version of Prince Charming opposite Drew Barrymore in Ever After here, he’s a puffy faced, sneering villain, who looks upon his betrothed with walleyed disdain. Half-sisters Marian ( Jessie Buckley) and Laura ( Olivia Vinall) live with their uncle ( Charles Dance, resplendently evil) until he pushes Laura, a well-regarded beauty, into marriage with a man she barely knows: mysterious, disgruntled baronet Percival, played with broad, mustache-twirling ill intention by Dougray Scott. What’s so disturbing about the story is the sheer terror of its female protagonists’ unknown future-how little understanding or control they have over their fates, in a world ruled by men. In the new five-part TV adaptation of the book, first produced for the BBC and currently airing on PBS, there’s no blood, no ghosts, and only a few high-pitched screams-hardly a Halloween fright fest.īut The Woman in White still scared me-especially its second and third hours. Now that we can navigate to the most bloodcurdling horror footage ever imagined by the darkest recesses of the human brain in mere seconds, the dread of two half-sisters left in the thrall of a forbidding older gentleman hardly seems scary.
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