Haleth March 30 Share March 30 I loved, loved this! Really captured the charm and spirit of the book. 4 Link to comment
paigow March 30 Share March 30 Thankfully, not a lot of bad Russian accents and Rostov sounds like young Kenobi... 2 Link to comment
anniebird March 30 Share March 30 I thought this was wonderful - no fake Russian accents, just Ewan McGregor and his endless charm. 4 Link to comment
paigow March 31 Share March 31 I am confused by the handling of Nikolai... It seemed like he was supposed to get a big public execution instead of just shot at night with nobody else around... 1 Link to comment
Macbeth1966 March 31 Share March 31 I am really enjoying this. I loved the novel so much. 💖 29 minutes ago, paigow said: I am confused by the handling of Nikolai... It seemed like he was supposed to get a big public execution instead of just shot at night with nobody else around... I am not surprised. When Rostov was waiting to see how it would go for him - the person before him was practically shot in front of Rostov. If it was only a few people that they killed- they would have made examples of the people getting killed. But it was a lot more than a few. A great deal more. 1 Link to comment
paigow March 31 Share March 31 1 hour ago, Macbeth1966 said: If it was only a few people that they killed- they would have made examples of the people getting killed. But it was a lot more than a few. A great deal more. Nikolai was a high profile target [ex-royalty] who warranted a public execution for propaganda reasons... 1 Link to comment
paigow March 31 Share March 31 Glad that the narrator is a young girl rather than a surly teenage boy apprentice who tries and fails to kill Rostov on the bank of a lava river... 1 1 Link to comment
Macbeth1966 March 31 Share March 31 18 hours ago, paigow said: Nikolai was a high profile target [ex-royalty] who warranted a public execution for propaganda reasons... They didn't publicly execute the Tsar. Link to comment
mledawn April 1 Share April 1 Really enjoyed this episode - Ewan McGregor is doing a great job. I like that they're just going with English accents so we don't hear awful put-on Russian accents. Enjoying the H!ITG! of English actors, too. 2 Link to comment
lucindabelle April 2 Share April 2 (edited) Nikolai is a prince but in Russia not all princes were royalty. Spoiler doesn’t Nina disappear halfway through the book? She leaves her daughter. Edited April 2 by lucindabelle Link to comment
lucindabelle April 2 Share April 2 (edited) Oops sorry thank you i must say most of this looks exactly as I pictured. I never had a great mental image of the Count so this is fine. Didn’t his moustache get shaved off entirely though? I didn’t expect or remember the stairs to go around an open courtyard. Brr. Spoiler Halecki isn’t the same guy who ends up his party movie loving friend, right? did we meet the awful waiter this early? I don’t really mind the changes they’ve made though. I do wonder if people who haven’t read the book understand the significance of the coins. did they say who paid for his meals in the book? I always wondered about that. Edited April 2 by lucindabelle Link to comment
meep.meep April 2 Share April 2 The stairs go around the lobby as described in the book. Most big/grand hotels have big lobbies for people to sit in. 1 Link to comment
christie April 2 Share April 2 I read the book, which I enjoyed and, when I saw this advertised, I was really looking forward to ot but I'm just not feeling it. Ewan McGregor isn't selling the Count to me. Link to comment
paigow April 3 Share April 3 23 hours ago, lucindabelle said: Nikolai is a prince but in Russia not all princes were royalty. Prince implies Royal Family blood... Google Translate fail... Link to comment
lucindabelle April 3 Share April 3 11 hours ago, meep.meep said: The stairs go around the lobby as described in the book. Most big/grand hotels have big lobbies for people to sit in. The stairs to the servants quarter I meant. as for Russian princes, no, it’s not really royal. It just doesn’t have that connotation the way it would in any other European country. It’s a translation fail. A Russian prince is what we’d probably call a duke. It’s a nobleman but not royal. Right below princes are counts. Link to comment
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