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I went to see I Capture the Castle last night. I first read the book that it's based on a couple of years ago, when someone in the rec.arts.sf.fandom newsgroup recommended it. It's a wonderful book for a book-loving teenager, and a very good one for a book-loving adult. This is the journal of Cassandra, who will probably be a writer someday, whose father is a writer, whose stepmother is an artist, and who is living in desperate poverty in a drafty, leaky old castle. And then the wealthy Americans show up, and there's a chance that Cassie's beautiful sister Rose will be their ticket out of povery...
It's an intense, moody book, and enthralling, and I was so happy with the movie because it never betrayed the book. It's been long enough since I read the book that I don't remember everything, but the characters seemed reasonable, nothing seemed to have been dumbed down or made happier, and the ending was entirely correct. Sigh.
It's an intense, moody book, and enthralling, and I was so happy with the movie because it never betrayed the book. It's been long enough since I read the book that I don't remember everything, but the characters seemed reasonable, nothing seemed to have been dumbed down or made happier, and the ending was entirely correct. Sigh.