#the scarlet pimpernel

[recycledmoviecostumes]

With costume reuse comes another kind of reuse – fabric. The distinctively colored striped silk fabric has also been used for a costume seen in Return to Cranford and Belgravia. 

This waistcoat has been used in several productions depicting the late 18th century through the 19th century. It first turned up in the 1999 TV series The Scarlet Pimpernel, in both the second and third episode of the first season, where it was worn by Anthony Green as Andrew Ffoulkes. 

From there, it was briefly used in the 2008 sixth episode of the miniseries John Adams, where Zak Orth wore it as James McHenry.

It appeared next in the 2009 miniseries adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma, where Robert Bathurst wore the waistcoat as the character Mr.Weston. 

Most recently, the piece showed up in the first episode of the 2024 show The Completely Made Up Adventures of Dick Turpin, where Noel Fielding wore it in the title role.

Costume Credit: carsNcors, Shrewsbury Lasses

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[villetteulogy]

THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL (1934)

'Devilish clever race, the French. The only trouble is...you all go to pieces around the neck.'

[retro-only-darling]

Merle Oberon photographed for The Scarlett Pimpernel (1934)

[rosepompadour]

MERLE OBERON in THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL (1934) She was giddy, excitable, in love with the idea of love. She brought poetry to life with her innocent romantic glamour; nobody who knew her went untouched by her or would ever be quite the same after she had gone. - Princess Merle: The Romantic Life of Merle Oberon

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Sometimes I think about the garden scene in the scarlet pimpernel and I probably remember it wrong because I read it when I was EIGHT and it CHANGED ME I was eight and having a full aneurysm like THEY'RE IN THE GARDEN and it's NIGHT and they're MARRIED and it's been YEARS and she's too proud to be honest because she's like how DARE he assume she aided in the bloodshed willingly and he's like I thought I loved her and I still do but she had those people killed how could I be open with her ever again so they're both STANDING THERE IN THE GARDEN and it's the most STRAINED CONVERSATION EVER because they're both Yearning SO HARD but neither can be honest and she leaves disappointed AND! HE!

KISSES THE STEP SHE WAS STANDING ON BECAUSE OF A RUSH OF UNCONTROLLABLE EMOTION

Like HELLO??? CHANGED LIVES????

[dickensianenglishbulldog]

The three layers of Sir Percy Blakney’s personality:

[nicoleclowes]

They seek him here, they seek him there, those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven, or is he in hell? That damned, elusive Pimpernel. 🌹 A birthday drawing for my lovely twin sister 🌹

[celluloidbroomcloset]

OK, yes, Rhys Darby can and should and indeed must play the Scarlet Pimpernel. Why?

Sir Percy Blakeney is basically Stede Bonnet if he were an exceptional swordsman. Everyone thinks he's a brainless fop, when he's actually a badass hero going around saving people from the guillotine and looking fabulous while doing it. So you get the best of both worlds: He's a dingbat! He's a badass! He's a combination dingbat and badass!

Lots of fuckery. How does Sir Percy and his group get away with it? By dressing up and playing pretend and enacting daring rescues from right off the executioner's block.

Fancy clothes. So many fancy clothes. 18th Century outfits, each swishier than the last.

ANGST. Sir Percy is married to Marguerite, with whom he is passionately in love, but he thinks she betrayed someone and got them killed. And Marguerite? She thinks he's fallen out of love with her and she doesn't know why. They are cold and distant and seething with barely repressed passion. They are incredibly hot for each other and won't act on it. It's fantastic.

Sword fights! Sea battles! Chases across the countryside! More fuckery! Many chances for running around and jumping off things. Lots of action.

Tl;dr: Rhys Darby should play the Scarlet Pimpernel because I want to see it.

[hellostarrynightblr]

Leslie Howard and Merle Oberon in The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) dir. Harold Young

[knitepercival]

We all are caught in the middle

Of one long treacherous riddle

Of who trusts who, maybe I’ll trust you

But can you trust me?

Wait and see!

[mostlyjustgoose]

the greatest fictional wife guy of all time is Sir Percy Blakeney, Baronet, aka The Scarlet Pimpernel

that guy is in like twenty books and in every single one of them he’s like HAVE YOU MET MARGUERITE, SHE’S THE BEST :D

if I’m recalling correctly, in the last of his official adventures (not the last to be written, but the last chronologically, kinda like a a His Last Bow) Sir Percy ends up getting his wrist branded with an M while he’s disguised as a common criminal (I want to say it’s something to do with a French term for thievery?) and his reaction is “well, it hurt, but now I have my wife’s initial on me at all times :)”

[gayboss-too-close-to-the-sun]

There's something about the novels I've read that are obsessed with Napoleon - Les Miserables, War and Peace, The Count of Monte Cristo - and something about the novel's I've read that are obsessed with the French Revolution - A Tale of Two Cities, The Scarlet Pimpernel (Les Miserables is about a French Revolution but not the French Revolution). Those are the threads between those books, but somehow it feels stronger than just similar themes. I want to sit and spend a year reading nothing but those five books back to back and see what I learn.

[nopiedraws]

I blacked out after finishing exu and now I have this

[kwistowee]

Anthony Andrews & Jane Seymour THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL (1982) Dir. Clive Donner

[fictionadventurer]

I finally watched the Scarlet Pimpernel period drama, and I'm kind of obsessed with how Percy manufactures moments so he can live out every swashbuckling adventure cliche imaginable.

My men have overpowered the enemy soldiers, stolen their uniforms and their guns, and by extreme good fortune, their commander hasn't noticed that none of them have the same face anymore? We could defeat my nemesis right now, but it'd be way cooler to have them use the bullets in their fully-loaded guns to stage my execution just so I can dramatically reappear just as my nemesis thinks he's won.

We've overpowered this guy and have him completely outnumbered, but I want to engage in a completely unnecessary one-on-one swordfight with him, because I will live out my swashbuckling dreams.

You overly dramatic idiot, I love you so much, but why are you like this?

[dickensianenglishbulldog]

Barroness Orczy writing a normal sentence about Sir Percy: How can I work in the fact that he is handsome?

‘Yes’ said Sir Percy very long-limbedly.

Orczy: Perfect. Very subtle.