#catherine vernon

[bethanydelleman]

Lady Susan Readthrough: Character Analysis, Catherine Vernon

By the way, not sure if I'm actually analyzing these characters or just talking about them, but I'm not getting paid or graded so whatever.

Catherine is set up as the main antagonist to our titular character, Lady Susan. At first, Lady Susan seems sure that she can win Catherine to her side, but she quickly realizes that her sister-in-law will not be easily swayed. Catherine maintains her sanity the entire book and emerges triumphant in the end.

Catherine doesn't really make me think of any other female characters in Austen, in the same way that Lady Susan and Frederica do. Catherine is prejudiced against against Lady Susan from the start, but unlike Elizabeth Bennet, clinging to that prejudice is her salvation. Also, even though Catherine fears that Frederica will be wild and vulgar, she changes her opinion rapidly when faced with the truth. So she does have the ability to be open-minded

Interestingly, Catherine seems to be both happily married and more intelligent than her husband, kind of like Elizabeth Bennet married to Charles Bingley. Mr. Vernon doesn't seem deficient, but he's not picking up on Lady Susan's machinations at the same rate at his wife. However, while she is somewhat annoyed by his good nature, everything points to them loving each other. Their relationship may be like Admiral and Mrs. Croft, who each have their strengths in different areas and rely on each other in them.

Catherine's major flaw is thinking that other people will be a clear-sighted as she is when it comes to Lady Susan. She invites Reginald to meet Lady Susan without fear and then is shocked when he falls for her wiles. By the end she has grown as a character, she is far more wary the second time Reginald frees himself from the spell of Lady Susan and far more wary of her in general.

The trait that comes through most strongly for Catherine is protectiveness. She's worried about her children being influenced by bad relations, her bother falling for the wrong person, and then she is fiercely defensive of Frederica. She also is trying to protect her sick father from learning about Reginald's affair. I admire her for going out of her way to help Frederica, even going to London to try and bring her back to Churchill. She is definitely a woman I would want on my side. Reminds me a little of Mrs. Jennings and her defense of Marianne.

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Oh right, it's not just dissertation month but Pride. I'm belatedly joining the month of my people with ... a poll :)

My best friend has been good-naturedly mocking my predictable (read: gay) taste in female characters since childhood. I thought it would be fun to let the good people of Tumblr vote between some of said predictable options:

[scenephile]

People only die of love in the movies.

[orlandooo]

Catherine Deneuve as Geneviève Émery

Nino Castelnuovo as Guy Foucher

Anne Vernon as Madame Émery

Marc Michel as Roland Cassard

Ellen Farner as Madeleine

Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (1964)

Dir. Jacques Demy

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Les parapluies de Cherbourg (1964) dir. Jacques Demy

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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, 1964)

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Anne Vernon and Catherine Deneuve in the Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)💐🌟

[ulrichgebert]

Dann machten wir gleich mit Jacques Demys französischen Hafenstädten zu Michel-Legrand-Melodien weiter. Diesmal: Cherbourg, bekannt für seine hochspezialisierte Regenschirmhandlung und seine ganz besonders eingängige und herzerweichende Michel-Legrand-Melodie. Obwohl er jetzt gelernt hat, daß die Filme untereinander Querverbindungen haben, erkennt der Tobi trotz wiederverwendetem Leitmotiv Monsieur Cassard aus Lola nicht, der hier dem reizenden Nino Castelnuovo während dessen Militärdienst die farblich schön abgestimmte Catherine Deneuve wegheiratet. Wir versinken derweilst in einem Meer von Tränen und freuen uns auf Rochefort.

[esonetwork]

The Last Starfighter | Episode 388

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The Last Starfighter | Episode 388

Jim reflects on a Feel-Good Sci-Fi Classic from 1984, “The Last Starfighter,” starring Lance Guest, Catherine Mary Stewart, Robert Preston, Dan O’Herlihy Norman Shaw, Kay E. Kuter, Barbara Bosson, Chris Hebert and Vernon Washington. Directed by Nick Castle (Halloween and Halloween II), the film follows a young dreamer who ends up saving the universe. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

[bethanydelleman]

Lady Susan Readthrough Letters 39 & 40

Summary: Lady Susan hopes to meet Alicia again when the situation is more favourable (ie: when her husband kicks the bucket). She hates everyone, but is determined to fetch Frederica and make her marry Sir James. No more Mrs. Nice Lady Susan!

Lady de Courcy writes to her daughter, Reginald is home! Yay! She begs her daughter to visit with Frederica so they can try to get them married. After all this anxiety, it's time to party!

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Your husband I abhor, Reginald I despise, and I am secure of never seeing either again. Have I not reason to rejoice? Mainwaring is more devoted to me than ever

Yay?

This event, if his wife live with you, it may be in your power to hasten. The violence of her feelings, which must wear her out, may be easily kept in irritation. I rely on your friendship for this.

Lady Susan kindly wishes for her friend to commit a little murder on her behalf. She didn't actually suggest poison but trying to depression and anxiety a woman to death is hardly better.

I am now satisfied that I never could have brought myself to marry Reginald

Well it's a good thing Lady Susan's decided this after the choice is gone!

I am tired of submitting my will to the caprices of others; of resigning my own judgment in deference to those to whom I owe no duty, and for whom I feel no respect. I have given up too much, have been too easily worked on

Lol! WHEN? She never actually changed her mind about anything. The whole time she's been determined to marry off Frederica and have an affair with Mainwaring. I guess it was really hard pretending to not be a coquette for a few weeks.

I love this line from Lady de Courcy, "This is the most joyful hour he has ever given us since the day of his birth." What a sad reflection on Reginald!

List of Reginald's Achievements in life:

Being born male.

Not marrying Lady Susan

Frederica runs much in my thoughts, and when Reginald has recovered his usual good spirits (as I trust he soon will) we will try to rob him of his heart once more, and I am full of hopes of seeing their hands joined at no great distance.

I am curious here why the Vernons want Frederica to marry Reginald so badly. Surely she is a better choice than Lady Susan, but why else? We know Lady Susan has blown through the entire family fortune, and she said her daughter needed to marry money, so it isn't for wealth reasons. I guess they just love Frederica and are worried that Reginald will chose someone terrible again if left to his own devices.

Which I kind of suspect might be true, lol.

[omnivorouscinephilia]

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg: A Musical about Mundane Tragedies

As a double bill with my Past Lives review, here is one of the other great romantic films that can get me to cry, Demy's masterpiece Umbrellas of Cherbourg. If you have somehow never seen the film, watch it, and then read my review!

The resurgence of the musical as a popular cinematic genre is in theory a welcoming sign for a greater diversity in the contemporary American film landscape, even if the works are more marginal than what had come before. While specialists in the genre never went away, there have noticeably been fewer inclined to work extensively within that particular mode. Figures like Rob Marshall and Tom…

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Os Guarda-Chuvas do Amor (Les parapluies de Cherbourg, 1964), dir. Jacques Demy.

Review originalmente postada: 26/Fev/2023 no Letterboxd.

Reflexões sobre o amor, das consequências de nossas escolhas e seus efeitos para nossos futuros. Transborda tudo isso de uma forma delicada, demonstrando como um retrato sensível e poético da vida de duas pessoas que enfrentam as mudanças que a vida impõe. Uma fotografia estupenda, podendo considerar um dos pontos mais fortes do filme, cores vibrantes que se misturavam com os pequenos gestos para aprofundar os sentimentos dos personagens. E sem dúvidas, gostaria viver uma vida com canções de Michel Legrand.

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THE ONLY THING MY FATHER GAVE ME THAT WAS OF ANY VALUE IS PAIN

honey boy / catherine lacey, cut / house of the dragon s01e07 / sophokles, elektra (tr. anne carson) / george r. r. martin, fire and blood / house of the dragon s02e02 / frank bidart, golden state / house of the dragon s01e03 / the front bottoms, father / house of the dragon s02e02 / schuyler peck, unnamed / marina, the family jewels / amatullah bourdon, and my father's love was nothing next to god's will / house of the dragon s01e03 / ashe vernon, not a girl / bruce springsteen, adam raised a cain

[orlandooo]

Catherine Deneuve as Geneviève Émery

Nino Castelnuovo as Guy Foucher

Anne Vernon as Madame Émery

Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (1964)

Dir. Jacques Demy