{"id":1008,"date":"2005-02-04T12:51:35","date_gmt":"2005-02-04T12:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2005\/02\/i_capture_the_c\/"},"modified":"2005-02-04T12:51:35","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T12:51:35","slug":"i_capture_the_c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/i_capture_the_c\/","title":{"rendered":"I Capture The Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over Christmas, I was thoroughly engaged by <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0300015\/\">I Capture The Castle<\/a> on BBC2. This film came out in 2003 and I must admit that it passed me by. The film stars the then newcomer Romola Garai (who I knew as Zoe from <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0261462\/\">Attachments<\/a>) as Cassandra as well as Tara Fitzgerald and Bill Nighy. I loved it.<br \/>\nSo I was in my local Ottakers a couple of weekends ago, and the Dodie Smith novel was in the staff recommendations case. (I&#8217;m led to believe that certain bookshops now &#8220;specify&#8221; the books that their staff should recommend. Surely not?)<br \/>\nThe first thing to note is that the film is an exceptionally accurate reading of the book. No important plot point is missed and I didn&#8217;t recall any changes. The book is completely told from the point of Cassandra and is broken into &#8220;books&#8221; that represent her exercise books as she fills them. The introduction to the book, which of course I left until I&#8217;d finished it, talks of all the writers who&#8217;ve been inspired by this novel, and if I&#8217;d read it aged 14, I think I would have been too.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s not to say that I didn&#8217;t enjoy it &#8211; I did enormously. It was thoroughly charming and well worth reading.<br \/>\nIncidentally I had no idea that Dodie Smith wrote One Hundred and One Dalmations, the work for which she&#8217;s best known. Of course given my sometimes irrational hatred of all things Disney (with the exceptions of Fantasia and the Jungle Book), I&#8217;m not quite as familiar as some. But there always seems to be a documentary about her on BBC Four which I completely fail to watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over Christmas, I was thoroughly engaged by I Capture The Castle on BBC2. This film came out in 2003 and I must admit that it passed me by. The film stars the then newcomer Romola Garai (who I knew as Zoe from Attachments) as Cassandra as well as Tara Fitzgerald and Bill Nighy. I loved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}