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Comment on Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (2004) by Debra Murphy

Debra Murphy — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:21:14 +0000

I just checked iMDB and I’m not seeing anything at all on the S & N movie. Last we heard Julian Fellowes (Downton Abbey writer) was doing the screenplay, but it would appear that all plans for the movie got dropped when New Line Cinema, who owned the rights, was dissolved. I wonder whho owns the rights now? ANyone?

Clan Murphy still loves to play the casting game, however, notwithstanding. We currently see Kenneth Branagh as Norrell, Benedict CXumberbatch as Strange, Andy Serkis as Vinculus, and Tom Hiddleston as the Raven King. Childermass…hm, we’ve had several candidates.

Comment on Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (2004) by Jess

Jess — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 23:37:57 +0000

I love your idea of Strange emulating the romantics – it suggests that Norrell may represent the passing of the Age of Enlightenment, when science was king, and the younger Strange the new, wilder ideas of the romantics. I wrote my thesis on JS&MN and have read it annually ever since. I just wish they would hurry up and make a movie or miniseries!

Comment on Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (2004) by MF

MF — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:19:30 +0000

A comparison with Harry Potter, as one could think, might not be that silly; but “comparison” does mean that these worlds (Clarke’s and Rowling’s) are opposite.
Since I am a teenager, I have grown up with the whole collection of H.P. kindly waiting on my bedside table to be read for the umpteenth time, and clearly spent years to think about what magic was in Rowling’s books – sort of a normal ability, something everyone, apart from Muggles or Squibs, should possess.
The fact is that H.P. was written in a simple, accessible style, and that it describes an everlasting struggle with absolute Evil, leads me to say that it is more something of a tale.
What is surprisingly new in H.P. is that fond normality of magic: one could use it in order to wash the dishes, clean up a room, and so on. But, if my memory serves me, Dumbledore mentions in the sixth book something really unusual, which is described as the greatest form of magic: a magic that is done without a wand, called “ancient magic” (the one which was used in order to build and protect Hogwarts, or to save Harry from the death spell of Voldemort). That is precisely the kind of magic we find in Strange&Norrel, although they use tools such as water, salt, and so on. The striking point is that, in H.P., magic desperately looks like technologic.
But the Deathly Hallows, and the Ancient Magic as well, coming in the end of the last books, are a “purer”, may I say, form of magic.

Strange&Norrel, in my opinion, does not boils down to a Manichaean tale. Magic is seen as, of course, a way to reach power – but it is also a poetic path, something that leads the magician in a surreal country, as the kingdom behind the mirror. Norrell obviously rejected it by transforming magic into a school subject full of boredom, and keeping the secret of its practice with great greed.
The way magic is practices in S&N, is utterly english; at least this is obvious. But it is also full of paganism, and almost entirely based on nature (the ships of fog and rain) or spirits/powerful beings evocation (the the gentleman with thistle-down hair). I quote the spell that Strange uses in order to protect himself from madness:

“Place the moon at his eyes and her whiteness shall devour all the false sights the deceiver has placed there. Place a swarm of bees at his ears. Bees love truth and will destroy the deceiver’s lies. Place salt in his mouth lest the deceiver attempt to delight him with the taste of honey or disgust him with the taste of ashes. Nail his hand with an iron nail so that he shall not raise it to do the deceiver’s bidding. Place his heart in a secret place so that all his desires shall be his own and the deceiver shall find no hold there.”

What is it ? Certainly not a christian magic rite.
And there is finally this temptation, that does exist in every true magic: the desire to go away, somewhere, “on the other side of the rain”, following the Raven King and the fairies.

Forgive my English, I’m actually French !

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Comment on “Shake me up, Judy!” by Debra Murphy

Debra Murphy — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:48:55 +0000

Wonderful! Is there by chance a YouTube vid of them performing the song?

Comment on “Shake me up, Judy!” by Iameloise

Iameloise — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:50:39 +0000

Hi My friend Kristi has a band, the Iron City Soul Shakers, and we wrote a song called “shake me up, Judy” because we LOVED Bleak House/smallweed. Also, her mom’s name is Judy, so we were able to take the meaning in another direction. here’s what we did with it:
http://www.reverbnation.com/artist/song_details/3441467