Here’s Ewan McGregor as James Joyce, in the film he produced and starred in: Nora:
You know. I just had to include Ewan. I had to!!
This is the scene where he waits for her to show up for their first “date”, and she blows him off (basically because she can’t get off work.) (Description of that from Ellmann’s biography of Joyce here.)
The next time the two met, it was a couple days later, on June 16, 1904.
And here is McGregor as Joyce, and the marvelous Irish actress Susan Lynch as his wife Nora:
Susan Lynch is fantastic as Nora.. Ewan.. Hmmm.. not so much for me.. although he improves, and I think the over-all balance is better because of it, in the later scenes.
Honestly, peteb?
I would think Ewan was great if he recited the alphabet in a monotone. I have no objectivity.
Ha! Honesty has much more value than objectivity.
and, in local news, I see Stephen Rea is showing Bloom in a few cinemas this week. I’ll wait to see if it appears on DVD.. and then I’ll think about seeing it.
Red,
Just passing along this along.
Emily – That was a very intersting piece. It made me miss Ireland, in a weird way.
Also, just an observation: Isn’t it weird when people assume they know how Joyce (or anyone for that matter) would react to something now? Like those who kept saying, about Tolkien: “He would have LOVED Peter Jackson’s rendition …”
Ehm, and how do you know?
Everyone saying: “Joyce would have loved the multiculturalism here now .. the frivolity …”
I’m really not so sure about that, actually. Without his rage at Ireland, where would his art be?
And I completely agree with the sentiment in that article that the road construction in Ireland is OUT OF CONTROL.
By the same token – the piece made me want to go back there immediately.
Don’t even get me started, Sheila. You have no idea how many arguments I’ve seen of the “Douglas Adams is rolling in his grave” variety. Yes, please feel comfortable presuming to speak for a dead man you never met.
Yeah, exactly!!
You have NO IDEA how someone would have reacted. So just STOP presuming, and stand on your own two feet and say: “I did not like the movie. All on my own.”
The best ones were the “Tolkien would have been against the war in Iraq” claims. Like, WHAT?!?!!? How the hell do you know?
The DNA ones were especially annoying, since everybody in his family that knew him said that they thought he would have loved the movie. It’s like people think it gives their point of view more credibility or something. On one of the geek boards, there were even people that would argue with Adams’ brother about what and was not “Douglas-y” enough. Imagine! Telling his little brother you understand him better!