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[birdienl]

Day 01 - Favourite foreign film
Day 02 - A film that is underrated
Day 03 - A film that brings you unadulterated happiness
Day 04 - A film cliché that you love
Day 05 - Favourite love story in a film
Day 06 - Favourite actor/actress
Day 07 - The most surprising plot twist/ending
Day 08 - The best opening/closing credits
Day 09 - The best soundtrack/score to a film
Day 10 - Favourite classic film
Day 11 - Favourite black-and-white film
Day 12 - A film that permanently altered your point-of-view
Day 13 - A guilty pleasure...
Day 14 - A film that you used to love but now hate
Day 15 - Favourite film sequel
Day 16 - Favourite film character
Day 17 - Favourite film quote
Day 18 - The best overall cast in a film
Day 19 - The most hilarious film you've seen
Day 20 - A moving (emotional) scene
Day 21 - Favourite film from your favourite actor/actress
Day 22 - Favourite Academy Award acceptance speech
Day 23 - A character who you can relate to the most
Day 24 - The best page-to-screen film adaptation
Day 25 - Favourite film villain
Day 26 - Favourite film poster
Day 27 - A film that you wish you had seen in theaters
Day 28 - Favourite film from your favourite director
Day 29 - A piece of trivia from a favourite film
Day 30 - Your favourite film of all-time?

Day 23 - A character who you can relate to the most

I've already referred to Jo March from Little Women in day 16, so for this question I will go for Elinor Dashwood from Sense and Sensibility. Like Elinor, I'm a very practical person, I'm not easily swept from my feet and I think we've got about the same taste in men...

Two quotes of Elinor that I could also use:
I think it’s best not to hope too fervently for something that may never happen.
In such a case it is perhaps better to use one's head.

Day 24- The best page-to-screen film adaptation

I'm going to cheat and take a small screen in stead of large screen adaptation: Far from the Madding Crowd (1998) with Paloma Baeza as Bathseba Everdene and Nathaniel Parker as Gabriel Oak. Great acting and very true to the novel. If you haven't seen it: do! Grab your chance to watch an adaptation of a non-depressing Thomas Hardy book ;-)

Day 25- Favourite film villain

Sean Bean as Ian Howe in National Treasure. Just because he can do evil so very well and still stay ridiculously handsome. And I usually don't even fancy blond men...

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Comments

[sparklyglampire.livejournal.com]

Thomas Hardy wrote a non-depressing book? Amazing! I always steer clear of adaptation of his work because they're so dismal. But I'll definitely have to check this one out :) It'll be next on my list!

[xjustinyx.livejournal.com]

Jo March is a good one... so is Elinor Dashwood. I think I have a little bit of both of them in me as well!

[birdienl.livejournal.com]

Ha, we must be lost sisters!

[birdienl.livejournal.com]

Oh yes! Far from the Madding Crowd has a happy ending. Ofcourse the heroine (Bathseba) has to go through some hardship before reaching the happy ending, but that's the same in for example Brönte or Dickens stories. BTW: Under the Greenwood Tree is also very non-depressing, even light. And Mayor of Casterbridge can also be said to have a moderately happy ending.