Between Austen's novels, Oscar Wilde, Wodehouse, & Downton Abbey, you sometimes get the idea that the entire populace of
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Far from the Madding Crowd
jdown-1 — 11 years ago(April 11, 2014 09:16 PM)
Between Austen's novels, Oscar Wilde, Wodehouse, & Downton Abbey, you sometimes get the idea that the entire populace of the U.K consists of the idle rich whose greatest challenge in life is to find some way to while away the long empty hours.
I like this this movie and Hardy's novels in general because they portray instead 19th country life and people who earned a living doing a full day's work. In FFTMC, it seems the supporting cast was deliberately chosen because they looked like (very) plain country folk, not actors & actresses.
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louiseculmer — 10 years ago(April 18, 2015 10:55 AM)
yes, Hardy's novels are interewting in portraying usually working class people as fhe main characters. however, He's not the only one. Dickens also wrote about characters who have to work for a living. And some of. Jane austen's characters are professional men - clergymen, soldiers, sailors. and Downton Abbey focuses as much on the servants as it does on the upperr class characters. and p.G. wodehouse's most famous character is not one of the idle rich, it is Jeeves, the valet.