AHA! I thought that I'd post this before I totally forgot:
If I were to ever cast Willa in a movie the actress that would most LOOK the part would be:
Rebecca Hall
Not a perfect match, but she is the absolute closest I could find. She's very pretty, but not insanely, over the top gorgeous. She plays Bertha in "Wide Sargasso Sea", the "prequel" to Jane Eyre.
For reference, here are a few other pictures:
Picture 1
Picture 2
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Hey, that's right, I promised to post something...
All right, so in the last two updates I have introduced you guys to Lydia Rush. She's the new antagonist... well, in truth she's the ONLY antagonist (thus far), but I'll get to that later.
Lydia Rush is based off of three of Jane Austen's original characters. I figured just making her your standard bitch wouldn't work. I needed to "Austen" her up a little.
Lydia's first character influence is Fanny from Sense and Sensibility (the girls' sister-in-law). Yeah, you know that bitch. You hate her from the very beginning and she really is an excellent example of how well Austen could develop a character when she put effort into doing so because the truth is that for as likable as most of Austen's heroines were, I can admit that a good deal of them were bland. However, she really seemed to put a lot of effort into characterizing her villains so that you HATED them, no questions asked.
Lydia's next influence: Caroline Bingley. Anyone who loved Darcy and Elizabeth hated Caroline on principle. Really though, she's not so much an antagonist as she is just "that clingy, jealous chick". Seriously, she's just a spoiled brat but there's nothing inherently EVIL in her. She's just freakin' annoying.
And thus I am brought to Lydia's final influence: her namesake, Lydia Bennett. Okay, so Lydia Bennett's not really an antagonist (if anything she's one big plot device), but look at her. She's over-indulged, selfish, boy crazy with streaks of jealous, crazy bitch (she's beginning to sound like Caroline, isn't she?). However I should point out that this interpretation of her comes from the BBC version of Pride and Prejudice from 1995. Julia Sawalha is absolutely brilliant as Lydia mostly because you HATE her and you don't hate her for the same reason you hate Mrs. Bennett (and it may just be me, but that woman was ANNOYING AS HELL). You hate her because all you can think is "Thank GOD she isn't MY sister!"
SO yeah, Lydia Rush will be quite the trip.
Okay, onto the second half of this rant. I mention earlier that Lydia is the only real antagonist thus far in the story. That's because she's the only character I've INTENDED to be an antagonist.
I may have mentioned this before so forgive me if I am repeating myself, but Mr. Lori, or "that bastard" as many of you seem fond of calling him, was NEVER meant to be a bad guy. Yes, he is a manipulative, self-centered, loathsome ASS but he isn't a bad guy. Seriously.
When I threw Mr. Lori into the plot around the second chapter or so, I didn't really have any use for him. I mean, no use for him that didn't fall under just being that "other guy"-- the unlucky dude who's there to NOT get the girl. As the story progressed I realized that I needed someone to drive Willa and Errol apart and Lori just ended up being the fall guy for it. This doesn't inherently make him a bad person either.
The thing is that the dude broke the two up mostly because he wants Willa for himself but ALSO because he was actually, genuinely concerned for her safety and happiness. He didn't want her to get hurt. Sure he went about it in the most jerkwad-ish way possible, but you have to give the guy some props for looking out for the girl he likes. Also, Lori never lies to get what he wants. It's not like he lied about Errol getting that girl pregnant in France; that was what actually happened. If anything, Errol's in the wrong, but I won't get into that.
For right now, Lori has been conveniently removed from the plot, but he will be making a few more appearance and, I'm sorry to say, he won't really be getting what's coming to him. He just won't get the girl.
Lydia Rush is based off of three of Jane Austen's original characters. I figured just making her your standard bitch wouldn't work. I needed to "Austen" her up a little.
Lydia's first character influence is Fanny from Sense and Sensibility (the girls' sister-in-law). Yeah, you know that bitch. You hate her from the very beginning and she really is an excellent example of how well Austen could develop a character when she put effort into doing so because the truth is that for as likable as most of Austen's heroines were, I can admit that a good deal of them were bland. However, she really seemed to put a lot of effort into characterizing her villains so that you HATED them, no questions asked.
Lydia's next influence: Caroline Bingley. Anyone who loved Darcy and Elizabeth hated Caroline on principle. Really though, she's not so much an antagonist as she is just "that clingy, jealous chick". Seriously, she's just a spoiled brat but there's nothing inherently EVIL in her. She's just freakin' annoying.
And thus I am brought to Lydia's final influence: her namesake, Lydia Bennett. Okay, so Lydia Bennett's not really an antagonist (if anything she's one big plot device), but look at her. She's over-indulged, selfish, boy crazy with streaks of jealous, crazy bitch (she's beginning to sound like Caroline, isn't she?). However I should point out that this interpretation of her comes from the BBC version of Pride and Prejudice from 1995. Julia Sawalha is absolutely brilliant as Lydia mostly because you HATE her and you don't hate her for the same reason you hate Mrs. Bennett (and it may just be me, but that woman was ANNOYING AS HELL). You hate her because all you can think is "Thank GOD she isn't MY sister!"
SO yeah, Lydia Rush will be quite the trip.
Okay, onto the second half of this rant. I mention earlier that Lydia is the only real antagonist thus far in the story. That's because she's the only character I've INTENDED to be an antagonist.
I may have mentioned this before so forgive me if I am repeating myself, but Mr. Lori, or "that bastard" as many of you seem fond of calling him, was NEVER meant to be a bad guy. Yes, he is a manipulative, self-centered, loathsome ASS but he isn't a bad guy. Seriously.
When I threw Mr. Lori into the plot around the second chapter or so, I didn't really have any use for him. I mean, no use for him that didn't fall under just being that "other guy"-- the unlucky dude who's there to NOT get the girl. As the story progressed I realized that I needed someone to drive Willa and Errol apart and Lori just ended up being the fall guy for it. This doesn't inherently make him a bad person either.
The thing is that the dude broke the two up mostly because he wants Willa for himself but ALSO because he was actually, genuinely concerned for her safety and happiness. He didn't want her to get hurt. Sure he went about it in the most jerkwad-ish way possible, but you have to give the guy some props for looking out for the girl he likes. Also, Lori never lies to get what he wants. It's not like he lied about Errol getting that girl pregnant in France; that was what actually happened. If anything, Errol's in the wrong, but I won't get into that.
For right now, Lori has been conveniently removed from the plot, but he will be making a few more appearance and, I'm sorry to say, he won't really be getting what's coming to him. He just won't get the girl.
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