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- Netflix's recent adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier's classic gothic, suspense novel, Rebecca, was bad. Like, really REALLY bad. Let's talk about why.
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Totally agree! This adaptation leans too heavily on the romance and physical scenes between Maxim and the new wife! And wasn’t she supposed to be more timid/ under confidant? That is not how Lily James played her. Also detested all the stylish pants and berets she wore
I don't like how they sexualized everything. Like the movie made it seem like they got together because they were very much sexually attracted to each other. All similarity to the book was lost during the beach scene. It gave me the ick ngl
Olivier and Joan from Hitchcock's version was a great casting choice. Olivier felt more mature and solid, he showed affection but was perfectly detached at the same time. You could feel that Rebecca's shadow was there from the beginning in retrospective. Joan was great as the naive young woman, kind of alone in the world who was able to gravitate towards Olivier's Maxim. Hell even I would have married him, he was charming (and Olivier's handsome) enough to make an impression on the heroine even though he was older and you could feel her love and care. I was actually yearning for them to kiss, and felt Joan's frustration when he becomes distant later. Maxim comes across as a troubled soul who wants to love but is psychologically trapped from his previous marriage. The actress who played Mrs. Denvers was also superb, her obsession with Rebecca tangible and her bitterness towards the heroine was felt from the start yet subtle. The tone and suspense is just beautiful and very well balanced. I've watched it many times and it's one of my all time favourites!
Hitchcock deliberately made Fontaine uneasy during filming--he talked about it in an interview with Dick Cavett. The example he used was having a fan blowing on her hair--but he hid the fan so all she knew was that she was trying to film the scene while a slight draft was marring her hair.
You are so articulate, young lady. (I am 68 years old; my daughter is 31. I have such admiration for young people like you and my daughter, articulate, intelligent, delightful!)
you pretty much summed up why i didn’t really like the movie. also i don't understand why they made the heroine a confident woman from the get go. in the book it was more like a slow burn, and the breaking point was maxim telling her she never loved rebecca, but in the movie that revelation was like "umm okay???".
I read the book because I was excited for the movie. In the end I loved the book and loathed the movie 😂
Same! I bought the book before watching the movie and I'm so glad I did. The book was really interesting and the main character was so clueless and naive. I really liked it. The film just felt off.
You should watch the hitchcock version it's great
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The Hitchcock one is amazing
the hitchcock movie of rebecca from 1940 will always be my favourite. He nailed the tension from the book.
There’s nothing worse than when a movie acts as if the people watching are just too stupid to get it. This is literally scrip writing 101, ffs 🤦♀️
The 1939 movie is a masterpiece
Yes! I grew up on that movie. I have no want to see this new one.
Wasn't it 1940? But yes. I totally agree!
@@JadeAndersonactor It was 1940
Agree. It was one of my mother’s favorites, too. I haven’t watched the new one. Just…no.
Apart from Kristin Scott Thomas as Mrs Danvers I just think the casting was so off the mark. I think the age gap informs quite a lot of the dynamic between Maxim and the main character in the book, but because Lily James and Armie Hammer are only like 3 years apart in age that whole element is lost. I just don't understand why you would change their initial interactions and the relationship dynamic which are such fundamental parts of the story.
How big of a age gap in the book
@@madelinebryant9851 In the book they have an age gap of about 20 years. Maxim is supposed to be around 42 years old.
@@KristenReads at least
In the book, Maxim DeWinter was detached and whatever. And they kissed after he told her the story about how Rebecca actually died. That's the only time I remember then kissing and showing physical affection for the first time.I never watch movie adaptations for books I love! Because I've listened to the audio of this book like ten times already, I will not hurt myself to such a huge degree by watching an atrocious movie meant to represent such a masterpiece.
I rest my case
That is the problem with most modern movies, they are constantly spoon feeding us instead of making a good screen play.
I thought the most off-putting part of this movie is how at the end it portrayed the heroine as this obsessed woman who would probably kill a man just to defend her abusive husband... and then that final hotel scene? What are they now, sexy runaway criminals? It left such a bad taste in my mouth. I only read half of the book though so I don't have anything to compare that to, but I think I should give it another try :(
In the original novel, after Maxim had told the heroine about Rebecca’s malice and eventual murder, he kissed his young wife for the first time with real passion (still fresh from the shock that her husband had killed Rebecca, she was a bit “unfeeling” when Maxim kissed her like that)
Lily James was an awful pick for the protagonist, its hard to actually believe her insecurities and her inability to live up to the incredible grace and beauty of rebecca when she's played by a very objectively attractive woman. They can't physically make her plain enough.
Much of the book is built up in dread, knowing that it ends in an abandoned Manderley, knowing that the whole time she gets excited about the ball and the dress that she's going to be humiliated, seeing her gain confidence and knowing how it's all going to come crashing down.
Dramatic irony is used throughout the book to create not really suspense, but dread. We can just see the woman's humiliations happening before she does, her happiness makes it so much worse because we know it's not going to last.
In the new film we get basically none of that, the events just sort of happen with a complete tonal shift.
Also maybe a bit controversial but I don't like Thomas as Mrs Danvers either, she's a brilliant actress but she doesn't have the distinguishing facial features and malice needed. She's again just too young and pretty. Danvers needs to be an old woman, who looks like she just crawled out of a casket. She can't just be rude and disapproving she must be cruel and malicious. In the book she is terrifying, in this film she was just creepy.
To be fair almost every adaptation of Rebecca the 1940 film, 1997 miniseries, the stage musical, the Italian version have explicitly shown Mrs Danvers burning Manderley down.It's much more dramatically interesting for an audience to see it as it happens.
i havent seen a version that beats alfred hitchcock’s.
me either. I like the 79 BBC version too.
The biggest change was that the movie implied the protagonist was a heroine like you used the word. She was very passive and used her imagination for the most of the novel so we don’t really know what people actually thought of her or anything else like Rebecca but rather what she believed people thought (and with Rebecca this is more clear). And in the end she becomes an assecory of murder with her blind faith in Maxim’s word of his justifications and thinks this is happy ending before Manderly burns. I think it’s more complex grey moral dilemma and interesting to think of how far we should agree with the events with the narrator. But I would not say the text also declares Rebecca innocent like some critics think.
Yes, although that is actually quite difficult to portray in a drama, in the book you are in the narrator's head, but in a drama you are another character following them physically around, you see what she sees and you see her and you can more easily come to different conclusions about a scene. She is active in the book by being the narrator and giving you her thoughts. The secondary readings that the narrator is culpable etc. are actually more obvious this way, and she is more obviously passive and silent because you no longer hear her narration, leaving a bit of a character void. They shouldn't have filled it with extra heroism though, just subtly included more of her narration in the dialogue, especially as the book shows their relationship strengthening by the way they go through things together, even although they are breaking the law, something that is totally lost in the film.
The most important scene is probably Maxim's dramatic reveal, but in this scene they ruined the dynamic by making it very pained and slooow and much less emotionally manipulative. I think they had a 'in this day and age, we can't have the hero be emotionally manipulative' thing, but it is the duality which is so important to the story, he says he loves her, but in such a way that we get caught up in the drama of the moment and miss the manipulation, but it is there. Removing it just weakened the drama and the subtle moral of the story.
I saw the trailer on Netflix and that was enough! 🤮 Watch the 1940 version directed by Hitchcock, absolutely sublime!
You just keep wondering how stupid one has to be to remake an Alfred Hitchcock Best Picture winner
In trying to give the heroine "agency" from the get go, they take it all away by giving her no room to grow. Where are the awful clothes? The clumsy and awkward behavior? The lack of confidence? Making her "cooler" gives zero room for growth.
It looked GORGEOUS. I enjoyed the scenery, that's about it. I don't see the point of taking properties like this & Blithe Spirit, that have fan bases, then running as far away from the stories as they can get!
I 100% agree with you. I was really excited about the movie when I started watching it and was quickly disappointed.
The whole relationship between maxim and Mrs de winter is completely different. I get that you can’t adapt a book one to one. But they changed so much that they really didn’t need to. For example the poetry book. Why had Maxim to say the exact opposite than in the book. ( in the book he tells mrs the winter that she could have it, while in the movie he gets cold and asks her to lay it back)
All in all I really was disappointed and felt like they only read a summary of the book before writing the script.
Though I hope we sometime get another adaptation that’s closer to the book, because the story of Rebecca is fascinating.
Anyway I enjoyed your video.🫶🏼
I get that they wanted to change the movie, so it was different to the old movie and the book. But the changes make no sense. The changes to the tone, but also the weird changes to the ending.
If you want to even compare with Olivier and Fontaine, at least you should cast Daniel Day Lewis and Kate Winslet.
Bahahaha even those two couldn’t possibly compare
There was soooo much in this adaptation that fell short! Maxim was very two-dimensional and changing their ages messed with the whole dynamic of their relationship. I thought the editing was odd... big moments in the book were reduced to split-second scenes which left no emotional impact. And Danvers' suicide... the editing made it so anticlimactic! I just didn't feel anything during scenes that should've evoked an emotional response. So disappointing because we had been looking forward to this for so long. Personally, I really like the 1990s adaptation with Charles Dance. It had much more of the spirit of the book.
Hitchcock's adapttion of Rebecca (1940) captured perfectly the elements of suspense and drama amd mystery. Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier were just perfect, and the role of Mrs Danvers as the sinister housekeeper was just brilliant. It is difficult to match that film. Even the mansion was the perfect setting for the unfolding of the drama
A decent pallet cleanser for this movie would be the Alfred Hitchcock adaptation with Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine. It is a pretty good adaptation and worth a watch.
BLESS YOU! 🎉🙏🥰 A zillion bigwig reviews of this story, book & films - and *you're the first I've heard* to say the manor name properly! Ending -LEY ("LEE"), not -lay. KUDOS from 🇨🇦Canada.
Rebecca was a favorite book of mine as a teenager and I loved the old movie. Full of lies and secrets and ominous silences and unexpressed feelings that created great tension. In this his one , everything is out in the open and frankly, I could not care less about these people and what happens to them. A disaster.
Very much agree with your review. I'd like to add another big change that made absolutely no sense. In the novel (and in all other adaptations) the unnamed heroine is very shy, introverted & socially awkward. It is pretty much what seems to attract Maxime in the first place. Because of this, we can much easier understand her sense of being lost & overwhelemd once she arrives in Manderlay, and in particular, how easily Mrs Danvers can prey on her vulnerability. It is only after Maxime confesses having killed Rebecca, together with the revelation that Rebecca was far from this perfect being, that she finally starts showing her hitherto buried inner strength. In this film, she comes across as quite resolute, confident & strong right from the start. Christ, she's wearing trousers - an absolute feminist statement in those days (early 1930s). The likes of Marlene Dietrich, Katherine Hepburn & Greta Garbo wore trousers. Rebecca might well have done so as well - but the heroine? No way! But by portraying her as capable & confident in her own right right from the start, her sudden, rapid descent into wide-eyed helplessness & despair once she arrives at Manderlay makes absolutely no sense. I had the feeling Lily James thought so too as she's not even trying to bridge that gap in her performance. The director kept going on in interviews that this was an adaptation of the novel, not a remake of the 1940 Hitchcock film. Then why, pray, does it follow pretty much the same story beats & changes Hitchcock made?? Only, of course, not even half as good. The whole thing about Maxime's arrest and consequent trial is taken straight from Hitchcock's adaptation. The only new change is that ridiculous dash to get the evidence from the doctor's files before the police does. In the Hitchcock film we can see Mrs Danvers standing by the window as the house around her is burning, thus implying she started the fire and also dying in it. This film doesn't just imply, we see her throwing the match and we see her jumping into the sea. In the book Mrs Danvers doesn't die - in fact, the heroine wanders where she might be and what she might be doing. I recently watched 2 other adaptations, both mini series made for British television. The first, from 1979 with Joanna David and Jeremy Brett, is very close to the book, but has low production values and is as dull as dishwater. The other was from 1997, starring Emily Fox (Joanna David's daughter) and Charles Dance. This one, while close to the book on one hand, nevertheless also made some changes, most importantly by having flashbacks in which we actually get glimpses of Rebecca herself. I thought the changes made were very much in tune with the book & the characters. Both the heroine & Maxime were portrayed as they are in the book, including their relationship & age gap. I'd heartily recommend seeking out this adaptation. It also has Diana Rigg as a very interesting Mrs Danvers!
This is an excellent comparison and discussion. I completely agree that the changes that they made stripped away so much of what makes the novel interesting. The slow burn as the reader uncovers what is going on in the house and in the relationships is so watered down that it loses all sense of foreboding and tension. I have always wanted for some one to Wide Sargasso Sea this novel and tell it from Rebecca's perspective because we never meet her, we only meet the idolized idea of her.
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I watched Rebecca to see if I would like the book just because everyone says that Rebecca (as a novel) is super creepy and suspenseful. I can say that the movie was so ... bland. 😅
Everyone should watch the 1939 classic. It's amazing. 💜
OMG thank you! Finally someone who sees the movie like I do. I HATE this ending. Typically for Hollywood and the broad mass. Thanks for this great summary and comparison 👏🏻
I feel so bad for Lily James that she met Armie Hammer. What a monster.
lol
I only watched the movie and I thought it was so mediocre compared to its description! Lily James’s performance seemed so weird not gonna lie
I read the book and loved it . The new film looks so terrible I actually want to watch it.
While I was watching the movie, I wondered why they even decided to make an adaptation at all. So much was changed, better to just write an original story. I know it was probably because book adaptations come with built-in audiences, but I guess they could have said it was heavily influenced or recommended to fans of Rebecca somehow in the marketing campaign. The protagonist is nothing like the book, she has much more agency and thus doesn't work as a counterpart to the independent Rebecca, who is also not adequately portrayed as the constant presence in the house and everyone's lives. The ending just added insult to injury with Danvers' confession and suicide plus the happily-ever-after for the couple.
I would have enjoyed this more if the comparison had been between the book and BOTH Rebecca movies.
Armie Hammer is sadly miscast. I’ve loved Rebecca and all of Daphne du Maurier most of my life 🥰
As a fan of DuMaurier and of Hitchcock, girl... You. Killed. It. Outstanding review. I now am twice convinced that I do not want to watch this version! Seen all the others, including an Italian one! And even the Brazilian soap whose original script was allegedly ripped off by Ms. DuMaurier... Netflix again butchers a classic story, it seems. I was entertained by your solid arguments. Thank you!
GO WATCH THE 1940 Version. There were a few changes but is kept the spirit of the boot and was genuinely creepy and stressful. I made it half way through the 2020 and gave up.
Rebecca wasn't murdered. She hit her head and died.
In the Hitchcock version, yes, because Censorship prohibited showing a murderer get away with it. In the book and in all other film versions, including this 2020's Maxim does shoot Rebecca dead.
I’d love to see you do a video on Lady Chatterley’s Lover - discussing the book and the movie :)
Also it sounds like Armie Hammer is a monster. Woof.
From the sounds of it, I would much prefer the Gone Girl-inspired alternative you suggested 😅
Great analysis of the book. Apart from the 1939 film, I really recommend the 1997 TV minis series starring Emilia Fox and Charles Dance. Haven't yet caught this new version - and don't know that I will!
Diana Rigg as Danvers and Faye Dunaway as the young woman's travel companion. Diana Rigg brings the real "Danvers" to light in the serialized version. The original Hitchcock film however, will never be overshadowed by re-makes.
Please review the 1997 version!! Maybe even side by side with the 1940 film?
I had to reread the book just to see if my memory was wrong, but no, the film was a big disapointment. I really liked your discussion, thanks
Excellent review. I have seen two earlier versions of Rebecca and also read the book. What you are saying about the book is spot on. Inner drama is so more powerful. I will try to watch the movie… sometimes in the future.
I love the book, and found the 1997 miniseries to be enjoyable, but this new (2020) version is just terrible. Couldn't even get through it.
It's a common mistake for some directors and writers to entirely forget or just not realise that the behaviour of men and women has radically altered, especially after WW2, and again after the long tumultuous decade of the 1960s. I've heard from that pre-WW2 generation that in England at least, men and women rarely even held hands in public in the 1930s. Hence, the young woman at the heart of the story is extremely innocent of men and sex in general. As a young child in the 1960s, I remember how shocked my parents were at the attitude of a young couple we saw rolling in the grass in a passionate embrace!
Similar errors were made in the film Titanic (1997), which after all, was pre-WW1 (1912), and I recommend to anyone to watch the black and white 1958 version hauntingly titled 'A Night to Remember'. At the time of making the old version, survivors were still alive and some respect was needed to get things correct. No officer ever lost his nerve and pulled a gun on the passengers - that would have been a huge dishonor for a man in the Navy then. There were complaints in Scotland about that portrayal of the officer in question, as he did not lose his nerve at all in the course of real events!
I agree with you.
I however thought the production was dazzling. Having spent most of my summers on the French Riviera, the scenes there were a treat. But besides the decors and costumes, everything else was wrong.
I love Hitchcock’s film but I would also recommend the 1979 BBC version in 4 episodes. It’s a very faithful adaptation with great actors.
I just wasted 2 hours watching this movie. Your review is exactly what I was I was trying to articulate but couldn’t. I wish I saw this first! Thank you!
I didn't really see why the movie wasn't as good as the book or the earlier movies. Now I see why it was unsatisfying. Your insights show that you would make a wonderful screenwriter or novelist. Good luck.
You should watch the 1940 Rebecca adaptation from Hitchcock. That was Hitchcock’s only directed film that won a best picture, that was my favourite adaptation of this book! Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine gave such a great performance, and Judith Anderson was awesome as Danvers!
I understand having Mrs. Danvers kill herself in the Hitchcock adaptation with the Hayes code, etc. but having that be a plot point in this day and age? I much prefer the book where Danny heads to the train station and (I imagine) flips Manderley the bird. Maxim’s fate of premature aging, detachment, and restless wandering sits much better with me as a consequence of murder than a sexy Cairo vacation with his new wife.
Nope, you’re mistaken here 12:25 Rebecca wanted Max to kill her 🤣
Yep, Rebecca wants to take Maxim down with her by driving him to murder her, so she won't have to suffer and he will either end up in jail or execute for her murder. This demonstrates how evil she always was and how she enjoyed torturing him.
Another Hollywood adaptation where the screenplay writers thinks they can do a better job of telling the story than the original author. Ridiculous scenes with the Lily James character having a breakdown and imagining everyone is shouting "Rebecca " at her at the masquerade ball and also racing to the Doctors office to steal the Medical file on Rebecca.
Simply turned this movie into a 2 hour melodrama.
Only marginally better than Netflix's Persusian. Watch either the 1940 Hitchcock film or the Charles Dance/Emilia Fox version for superior adaptions of the Du Maurier novel.
I feel like this book was MADE to only have a black and white movie. According to me, the colours did not fit the movie at all. Either it was badly done and one can have a gothic movie in colours which I don't know about or the book should have been left having a movie in black and white.
For me, this version was very lacking in atmosphere. The atmospheric opening sequence of the Hitchcock version is nearly reminiscent of a traditional English ghost story. Rebecca is in some ways, like a malicious ghost, haunting and troubling the minds of everyone. The ending is also a lot better, but this one has her jumping off a cliff, somehow none the less creating very disappointing melodrama. Why does Mrs Danvers do this, after saying, 'You can never have Manderlay', and not stay alive long enough to make sure?
I totally agree with your review. Have you seen Alfred Hitchcock's 194(2?) version? Very good. Things were changed of course, but the essence of the novel was preserved I think. Just discovered your channel and I am loving it.
You have the Hitchcock version with Laurence Olivier Joan Fontaine and the BBC version with emilia fox and Charles dance. These other two versions are far superior.
SPOILER WARNING: There should be a much bigger spoiler warning here. Reading the novel was such a huge, shocking pleasure, that if you watch this review you will not be able to enjoy the suspense or twists. GO INTO IT KNOWING NOTHING. And enjoy.
Can't believe they wasted Kristen Scott Thomas AND Keeley Hawes!!
It was so awful that I just stopped watching about halfway through. The book is so good and the film totally missed the point.
I recently red the book (after first seeing the Hitchkock film and then this new one) and I disagree that Danvers and Maxim’s sister were in the book more. They had impactful scenes but there weren’t many of them, it was pretty similar to the new movie in “screen” time.
Loved the video! As i read the novel i thought the same thing about how interesting would be if we knew about Rebecca's narrative.
ALL the "Rebecca " movies from No 1 are terrible. NON of them gets the central point, the characters and their motivations. They all make it from their own perspective, and not one of them stays true to the storyline. Why did non start as the story did - with dream of Mandalay, turning from a sunlight day to an eerie, unsettling, moonlight finish? Why do non of them make the girl young and plain? Why do they never see why she turned from being hopelessly nervous and fear struck to a confident woman holding together in an unforeseen crisis? They are all so much Hollywood bunkum.
The 1939 movie was a true masterpiece
Agreed with your video! Could you please do a review of similar work to Pride and Prejudice? That would be wonderful!
I was so excited when I heard they were finally making a movie. But then i read the reviews... Id idn;t even bother to watch it. Thanks for this in-detail explanation for why it sucks.
Watch the 1939 classic. A true masterpiece!
I started watching this version & it just didn't havs the suspense of the book or the original b&w movie version . Anyway, thanks for saving me the time of watching this mess.. 👍
The 1939 movie was a pure masterpiece!
It's not so much physical attraction that brings the two together. It's the fact that he's filthy rich
The Netflix redo was quite appalling. No sensitivity to the ambience of Du Maurier's novel. I stopped watching after the Monte Carlo scenes, knowing this was going to be an utter trainwreck. Shame on Netflix, going for the lowest common denominator appeal.
I agree with everything you said. Spot on!! BUT HOW CAN YOU NOT MENTION THE 1940 HITCHCOCK VERSION!! by way of comparison? Have you even seen it? Surely not...that could be another video. Compare the 2 movies. Great Book.
this version is the only one that actually make me believe they were in love, mostly because of the change in both their personalities and their age , they made them more equal and easier to root for
Do a battle of the Rebecca adaptations
The orignal ending is supposed to be sinister, MRS de winter and maxime are sort of like bonnie and clyde. You don't get that from the film.
I enjoyed it for what it was, probably helped by Armie Hammer and Lily James since they're two of my favorite actors. However, I have to agree that as an adaptation of the novel it wasn't very good. My biggest gripes were with how rushed the ending was and the complete lack of any kind of suspense. I didn't even love the book if I'm being honest here and it still handled some of the plot points much better than the movie did.
Annie Hammer as Max deWinter?@? Ummmmm no...
A relative of mine was part of the production team, and the aspect he worked on was good . Aside from that, it was so disappointing.
I COMPLETELY agree with your comments. Such great actors not properly used. Terrible movie. Really disappointed me.
Never read the book but I’ve attempted to watch the story several times but never finished it lol, it was just strange, flat and weirdly paced and I always lost interest
Try the 1940 version directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It's really good.
Which is worse - this version of Rebecca or the 2022 Netflix Persuasion?
Here I half differ. Have you known prolonged oppression from a control freak "incapable of love and kindness"? The baby (non) issue was more a LAST STRAW than a main instigator.
I have not seen this adaptation but I read the book last fall and really enjoyed it! Your video is convincing me that the movie is not worth my time LOL. Have you seen the Alfred Hitchcock adaptation?
OMG THANK U FOR MAKING THIS UGH I watched the original movie and read the book but I REFUSED to watch the movie bcc of the casting and my doubts lmaooo. Ty for making this though:))
Lily James is unbearable to watch. Her acting is so over the top in everything she has been in. We needed some subtlety.
Did you listen or watch the bootlegs of the musical operetta of Rebecca that never made it to Broadway?
I thought Mrs Danvers was okay in the movie. It’s kept ambiguous if she is just cold or if she actually dislikes the heroine, until the costume ball. That’s when you know that the heroine isn’t just paranoid, that Mrs. Danvers was out to get her. I thought that was a good way to handle it (though maybe it was more the acting that sold it for me than the plot, I dunno).
Everything else was trash 😂. Movie Maxim was such an a-hole.
I guess I should not like the movie but I enjoyed the atmosphere nevertheless, it was similar to some Poirot adaptations and classic Hollywood films, it had more inspiration from the Hitchock film than the book even if there wasn’t tension in same parts (it was about Maxim’s behavior more than anything). In any case I would not call it terrible, even as adaptation, there are so many adaptations that change more of the books.
Just stick with the 1940 adaptation of Rebecca directed by Alfred Hitchock with Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine. Heck...even if you don't understand German go watch the musical wherever it's playing in Germany. That's a much better way to watch Rebecca in a visual medium.
Terrible movie they should never try & recreate perfection. I was so disappointed I couldn't even start the first 10min. Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca was 100% ❤ the new Rebecca 2020 🤢👎
I couldn’t get past the ten minutes of the film…
Im so glad I have never read the book. I liked the movie ok.... Now I need to read the book so I can see. I definitely felt that some of the movie dragged out and other parts felt rushed.
What about the narrator’s wardrobe. That was fun.
I should've searched this movie first before wasting 45 minutes scrolling through this 2hr narration. My goodness.
As a fan of Rebecca -the story- I couldn't get through this version. It was off😮