![]() Lily James, Armie Hammer and Kristin Scott Thomas step into the roles of the new Mrs de Winter, Max de Winter and Mrs Danvers. Some tangible (porcelain figurines that Rebecca loved, scattered about her desk) some in the elements that visit in the new bride’s nightmares (a mysterious shadow that lurks in the corridors) and in the darkness that furrows her husband’s brow, as he resolutely refuses to talk about his first wife, and how she died. Written by Jane Goldman, Joe Shrapnel, and Anna Waterhouse, the Netflix Rebecca movie takes a fresh look at the 1938 story. Like the Hitchcock movie starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine, Rebecca is based on Daphne du Mauriers 1938 gothic novel. Soon, the new Mrs de Winter (we never know her name, just as we didn’t in the novel), learns that in every shadowy nook of Manderley, there are memories of Rebecca, the first Mrs de Winter. A lavish adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s classic tale of romance. ![]() Where she encounters the formidable Mrs Danvers (Thomas), lording over a phalanx of liveried staff, and over everything else that goes on, at Manderley. de Winter begins to uncover the darkness of the past that taints the present and threatens to haunt her future. Lily James stars as a young newlywed who moves into the. The two are swept up in a languorous romance, and before we know it, she is going home with him, to one of the stateliest mansions in Cornwall. Like the Hitchcock movie starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine, Rebecca is based on Daphne du Maurier's 1938 gothic novel. Somehow the unassuming young woman manages to catch the eye of the dishy Maxim de Winter (Hammer), who lounges about on the sunny terrace, kitted out in a mustard suit. When you first come upon James, she is in a luxury resort in Monaco, dutiful companion to a horrid, overbearing dowager. But not once in the film, I’m sorry to say, do you even feel a frisson run down your shoulder-blades. As you hear the Lily James character saying ‘Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderley again,’ you are prepared for the familiar goose-bumps with which you responded to the haunting opening line. With such rich, evocative source material, you would imagine that it would be the easiest thing to translate it on screen, and there’s no harm in dusting off classics to present them to the new generation of movie-goers. Like the Hitchcock movie starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine, Rebecca is based on Daphne du Mauriers 1938 gothic novel. Not because it is ghastly that would have been something, but because it leaves you completely cold, and unmoved. Spoilers Ahead The movie is 68 years old and its based on a novel thats even older. ![]() This latest version in no way compares to either, making a mockery of one of the best gothic horror novels ever written. I’ve just finished watching Rebecca, the one in which Armie Hammer and Lily James play Mr and Mrs De Winter, and go to Manderley, just like they did in Daphne du Maurier’s 1935 novel, and Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 film, of the same name.
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