The 100 Things Challenge - Person 03
I hadn't intended to leave it so long to post about person 3, but I was too knackered at the weekend to think let alone write coherently.
in the movie Enchanted April George Briggs (Michael Kitchen) owns a mediaeval castle in Italy, San Salvatore, which he decides one year to rent out for the month of April. Four women take up the lease and while they're there, he visits to ensure that everything is all right, and because he's taken a shine to Mrs Rose Arbuthnot (Miranda Richardson). George is a very sweet and romantic man, an orphan, a veteran of the First World War (he received an injury to the head that has left him very short-sighted so that most people seem rather hazy to him), and an oboe player. In the movie he plays Elgar's 'Chanson de Matin':
He joins the ladies (Rose, Lottie Wilkins, Mrs Fisher, and Lady Caroline Dester) and Lottie's husband in a picnic tea in the top garden where he recounts a family anecdote to the rather disdainful Lady Caroline:
Then that evening he joins the others for dinner and dons an evening suit for the occasion:
I love the fact that his room (seen here and above when he's playing the Elgar piece on his oboe) is absolutely stuffed with books. I also love how sweet and romantic George is - because of his short-sightedness he judges people by their voices rather than their looks, and he is quite disappointed when he discovers that Rose isn't a war widow, as he'd first assumed, but simply unhappily married (although her husband coming to stay at San Salvatore enables her to become happier with her husband).
George is, in fact, so absolutely sweet and romantic that he wins over Lady Caroline, who lost her intended fiance during the First World War, and is very tired of people treating her differently just because she's so attractive. The fact that he can't see her clearly is something of a relief to her.
in the movie Enchanted April George Briggs (Michael Kitchen) owns a mediaeval castle in Italy, San Salvatore, which he decides one year to rent out for the month of April. Four women take up the lease and while they're there, he visits to ensure that everything is all right, and because he's taken a shine to Mrs Rose Arbuthnot (Miranda Richardson). George is a very sweet and romantic man, an orphan, a veteran of the First World War (he received an injury to the head that has left him very short-sighted so that most people seem rather hazy to him), and an oboe player. In the movie he plays Elgar's 'Chanson de Matin':
He joins the ladies (Rose, Lottie Wilkins, Mrs Fisher, and Lady Caroline Dester) and Lottie's husband in a picnic tea in the top garden where he recounts a family anecdote to the rather disdainful Lady Caroline:
Then that evening he joins the others for dinner and dons an evening suit for the occasion:
I love the fact that his room (seen here and above when he's playing the Elgar piece on his oboe) is absolutely stuffed with books. I also love how sweet and romantic George is - because of his short-sightedness he judges people by their voices rather than their looks, and he is quite disappointed when he discovers that Rose isn't a war widow, as he'd first assumed, but simply unhappily married (although her husband coming to stay at San Salvatore enables her to become happier with her husband).
George is, in fact, so absolutely sweet and romantic that he wins over Lady Caroline, who lost her intended fiance during the First World War, and is very tired of people treating her differently just because she's so attractive. The fact that he can't see her clearly is something of a relief to her.