In honor of the bio-flick on tonight on the local PBS station – all the Brontës — all of them! I bring you one of my all time favorite U-Toob videos.
For that Gothic Transformer kind of mood.
Follow up 9/23: I watched the film and it was a horrible disappointment. I wasn’t too surprised, considering the anti-feminist writer they thought suitable for the job (she did the *Amazing Mrs. Pritchard* which set back women in politics by about 50 years, and no, it wasn’t even funny.). Amazing how they always choose the woman who won’t threaten patriarchal assumptions too much (“of course the brother is more important”).
Instead of examining how the shared imaginative lives of all the Brontë children created a unique imaginative and literary education, the film fed us scene after scene of Branwell’s self-destruction, unending and boring stupors and rages, once again relegating the 3 most astonishing British writers of the 19th-Century to secondary characters in the story of their feckless brother. Even now.
Honestly, the action figure clip is a better introduction to their writing.