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This one is intriguing to watch . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHFtGGhY ... re=related
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thanks for those links. I shall have to try and watch them sometime and see what they offer.
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I watched the film a few years ago for high school. It's so different from the book, Tilda Swinton plays Orlando as very passive, he/ she gets swept along and experiences all these extremely different time periods of English history and doesn't blink an eyelid at them. I know that Woolf's Orlando also doesn't seem to be fazed much by all the changes going on around and inside him/ her (until the last chapter in which she gets pretty overwhelmed), but she nevertheless has those outrageous monologues filled with extravagant metaphors. I wonder why Sally Potter (the film's director) chose to portray such a stoic Orlando.
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I think she chose Tilda because she's kind of . . . what's that word . . . androgenous?

Not sure I spelled it right.

Some of the film clips are kinda' funny - especially the one where all those pompous people are sitting around talking - those men, the ones that put women down as being nothing.
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Thanks for those links. I'm watching them now. :clap:
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Whaddya' think, Chris?

Did you like the film clips?

Do you like the story?
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