어톤먼트 모작들
Beautiful!!!
atonement
Briony: *is a lonely 13-year-old with a vivid imagination*
Briony: *sees something strange and upsetting*
Briony: *sees something even more upsetting, if not traumatizing*
Briony: *loves Cecilia*
Briony: *wants to protect Cecilia*
Briony: *sincerely believes she is protecting Cecilia*
Briony: *is manipulated by very snobbish parents*
Briony: *makes a mistake*
Briony: *later realizes her mistake, feels horrible, and spends the rest of her life trying to atone for it*
Briony: *in the end is a pretty selfless tortured person who still loves Cecilia and knows her well enough to write a book in which she describes her innermost thoughts and feelings*
Paul Marshall: *rapes Lola*
Paul Marshall: *watches by as an innocent man is imprisoned and his life ruined*
Paul Marshall: *marries Lola*
Paul Marshall: *is a shameless disgusting creepy scumbag*
Fan: OMG I HATE BRIONY. What a fucking bitch. I HATE HER. Let’s torch her. BURN BITCH BURN. Oh and did you see Benedict Cumberbatch in that swimsuit… UNF…
[via bibliophilebabe]
Fictional characters who shaped my life (not in any order): Briony Tallis
I think people are scared of Briony, y’know. She failed to grasp the notion that other people were as real as her, that was her big mistake, and we’ve all been there. She thought she was doing right, or at least not doing wrong, but she messed up badly and we’ve all been there. She lived in a society where a man can rape a teenage girl and suffer no negative repercussions at all, and…
…we’ve all been there.
Anyway. James McAvoy thinks she’s rotting in hell, which causes me to wonder where exactly Paul Marshall is in that case. And also to wonder what Luc Cornet would have thought of that, because Briony was a good nurse and she lied to him when he was dying, the good comforting kind of lie. Briony went on to marry another Frenchman, actually, her marriage didn’t make it into the movie but got one sentence (one sentence!) in the book. I wonder how much her husband knew. I bet he loved her anyway. I hope he did.
Briony’s telling of Robbie and Cecilia’s story was also the good comforting kind of lie, and one that casts her (or did she cast herself?) as the architect of their destruction – but it wasn’t all her fault. Most of it is Paul Marshall’s fault, although he seems to get a pass for reasons Benedict Cumberbatch himself would be very disappointed in. Briony accused the wrong man, yes, but Cecilia and Robbie themselves came close to doing the same (“I suppose we owe an apology to Able Seaman Hardman”) and she was a child, thirteen years old, not even old enough to understand what she saw in the library.
Briony could have been anyone; could have been me. One fuzzy memory, one fear, one moment of ego and it’s all over. She was so busy being the hero of her own story she forgot she was also the supporting character of someone else’s. Scary, isn’t it?
She’s eventually punished in what must be the worst way imaginable for her: she’s a writer, a storyteller, but the dementia she’s been diagnosed with will cause her to lose all her stories- all her memories will fade away, and slowly. She was punished disproportionate to her crime, I think. She had a massive god complex- that was what caused her to try and give the characters Cecilia and Robbie a happy ending, while she could do nothing for the real people- but she tried to atone for it. To people like Luc and Fiona (do you know, I actually ship Briony/Fiona a little) she was a good person. And she never forgave herself for what she did, not even in her retelling of events, where she could have twisted the truth and didn’t.
She was arrogant and selfish and in many ways she wasn’t brave, but I don’t think she’s in hell. Or she’d better bloody not be.
underappreciated characters meme > A character you love who is unfairly blamed for things going wrong
Briony Tallis – the teenage girl who’s considered the villain of her story and one of the vilest bitches in all literature. Her crime? Geniunely, if perhaps for complicated motives, thinking she was sending a rapist to prison.
(The actual rapist gets off scot-free, both in the book and amongst its readers.)
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Things I love about Atonement–
-That it begins with a shot of a doll’s house and ends with a shot of a real house, except it’s not real, it’s all in Briony’s head, her own dollhouse for her dolls Cecilia and Robbie
-That Daniel Mays is in it, in an admittedly minor role
-That Briony walks like a robot- her older self does too- a robot walking to the sound of a typewriter
-That Saoirse Ronan is a brilliant, brilliant actress and is completely chilling and yet totally a real person in this
-That this film has one of the most beautiful soundtracks ever
-That Cecilia unwittingly seals her fate by stepping into water, and dies in water too- while Briony is saved from the water only to sort-of lose her soul
-That the question of whether or not Briony finds redemption keeps me up at nights
30 Women
Okay, this is a challenge antistar_e is doing, and it’s a wonderful idea and I want to do it too. :p
The challenge is to write 30 ficlets for 30 women. (I believe orginally it said fabulous women…but some of these people are downright nasty characters.)
(Doctor Who)
1. Martha Jones
2. Donna Noble
3. Rose Tyler
4. Nancy (from The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances)
5. Francine Jones
6. Sylvia Noble
7. Jackie Tyler
(Star Wars)*
8. Beru Lars
(Spider-Man movieverse)
9. Mary Jane Watson
10. Gwen Stacy
11. Ursula Ditkovich
12. Emily Osborn**
(Holes)
13. Kate Barlow
14. The Warden
(Watchmen)
15. Laurie Juspecyzk
16. Sally Jupiter –kindle a light
17. Gloria Long
18. Rorscarch’s mother
(Atonement)
19. Briony Tallis
20. Grace Turner
21. Cecilia Tallis
22. Fiona
(Batman Begins/The Dark Knight)
23. Rachel Dawes
24. Barbara Gordon
(Harry Potter)
25. Dolores Umbridge
26. Hermione’s mother
(Lord of the Rings)
27. Eowyn
(Blind Faith)***
28. Sandra Dee
(V for Vendetta)
29. Evey
30. Evey’s mother
*Not including Leia or Padme because I’m no good at writing them.
**Okay, she’s not actually in the movies, but she’s mentioned. I wrote her in Faith In Humanity and I like my version of her.
***This is a Ben Elton novel. It’s probably not that good a novel but I like it all the same.
Briony
Briony Tallis was always my favourite character in Atonement, both book and movie. Most people I watch the movie with don’t understand why, and don’t have any sympathy for her in the slightest.
I always had sympathy for her. She was cold and arrogant and selfish, but I always related to her. When I was in high school I had this really amazing English teacher. She went off on tangents a lot and one day she was talking about some man she used to know, and then stopped and said “I should have married him.” She was married already, and I thought once, nasty thoughts like this pop into my head all the time, OCD and all that, what if I saw her with her husband one day and said to him, “She wishes she’d married someone else!”
Obviously I never did it. Plus it’s probably not even me thinking, it’s the OCD. But still. That’s why I could never not sympathise with Briony.