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Peter Firth
15-01-2011, 12:53 PM
Post: #571
RE: Peter Firth
(15-01-2011 06:24 AM)Silktie Wrote:  
(13-01-2011 09:07 AM)lottanyman Wrote:  Peter's role is only in a handful of scenes of the book so he's definately only one of the minor characters.
But with what his character does (or not does...) he has quite some effect on some other persons appearing in the book so I think his scenes should at least be important for the whole story development.

Don't like the sound of that... Does that mean he plays another bad guy in this one?! Answers under spoilers please.

Ok, hope I can get this right and it won't be too long...
Series South Riding Spoiler: show
He's not really playing a bad guy but his character is manipulating someone else (Huggins, a preacher) into investing money into a house building scheme which then fails.
He lends some money to Huggins who got a girl pregnant and tells him of his plans to use some land to build houses and Huggins doesn't keep this to himself but gets some other people involved who also secretly invest money into that scheme.

At the end of the book it is clear that he only lent the money, so he could see that Huggins would do exactly what he expected him to do as some kind of experiment.

I think he's not really bad but he lacks something in social interaction. The other people respect him for his achievements (he's quite rich) and he's also clearly doing quite some things for the community but nobody can't really connect to him.

His characterization in the book is really good and I understood how he must seem to other people but I also understood his motives. There are so many good descriptions of people in this book and of human behaviour, I'm really glad I've read it...
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15-01-2011, 01:50 PM
Post: #572
RE: Peter Firth
Forgot to say in previous post that I have now watched "Tree of Hands" and I have started watching "Burndown."

OMG, they are seriously bad films. I don't like Peter's character in "Tree of Hands" at all and the pony-tail doesn't help. As for "Burndown"....my goodness! How did it get made? It's pure "cheese." Suicida Its only redeeming feature so far is that Peter is Sheriff of the town "Thorpeville." That's a good name for a town Wink

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15-01-2011, 02:24 PM
Post: #573
RE: Peter Firth
*chuckle*, TL....

I was watching the extras for S3 last night for the first time. In them PF mentions that he had actively avoided serialized popular TV because it tends to typecast an actor into one kind of role. He said he preferred instead what I think he called "challenging" pieces to quote, "which usually means no one has seen them." This would explain why he and his roles are usually very interesting but the overall pieces...ummm...aren't so much.

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15-01-2011, 04:31 PM
Post: #574
RE: Peter Firth
(15-01-2011 12:53 PM)lottanyman Wrote:  
(15-01-2011 06:24 AM)Silktie Wrote:  
(13-01-2011 09:07 AM)lottanyman Wrote:  Peter's role is only in a handful of scenes of the book so he's definately only one of the minor characters.
But with what his character does (or not does...) he has quite some effect on some other persons appearing in the book so I think his scenes should at least be important for the whole story development.

Don't like the sound of that... Does that mean he plays another bad guy in this one?! Answers under spoilers please.

Ok, hope I can get this right and it won't be too long...
Series South Riding Spoiler: show
He's not really playing a bad guy but his character is manipulating someone else (Huggins, a preacher) into investing money into a house building scheme which then fails.
He lends some money to Huggins who got a girl pregnant and tells him of his plans to use some land to build houses and Huggins doesn't keep this to himself but gets some other people involved who also secretly invest money into that scheme.

At the end of the book it is clear that he only lent the money, so he could see that Huggins would do exactly what he expected him to do as some kind of experiment.

I think he's not really bad but he lacks something in social interaction. The other people respect him for his achievements (he's quite rich) and he's also clearly doing quite some things for the community but nobody can't really connect to him.

His characterization in the book is really good and I understood how he must seem to other people but I also understood his motives. There are so many good descriptions of people in this book and of human behaviour, I'm really glad I've read it...

Ah okay, thanks for that, as I'm not sure whether we'll ever see South Riding here.

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15-01-2011, 09:28 PM
Post: #575
RE: Peter Firth
If the DVD is released as listed on 14th Feb and it runs for 3 weeks then it must air sometime during the week on Jan 24th. SO not long now Smile
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15-01-2011, 11:32 PM
Post: #576
RE: Peter Firth
DogSoSmall, I have tried to send you a PM about Birdsong but it says your messaging is disabled. PM me if you want to.

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16-01-2011, 01:04 AM
Post: #577
RE: Peter Firth
Thanks so much, Tea Lady! I have absolutely no idea how to un-disable my messaging! Confused Incentive now to work it out.

By the way, I really liked PF's jumper in Heartbeat. So snuggly. Smile
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16-01-2011, 11:15 AM
Post: #578
RE: Peter Firth
(16-01-2011 01:04 AM)DogSoSmall Wrote:  Thanks so much, Tea Lady! I have absolutely no idea how to un-disable my messaging! Confused Incentive now to work it out.
Opening an off-topic bracket:
To enable your PMs you must go to UserCP, on the menu on the left you click "Edit Options" under "Your profile" menu. Once there under the Messaging and Notifications you must enable "Receive private messages from other users". And there you go! Hope that helps.
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16-01-2011, 07:36 PM
Post: #579
RE: Peter Firth
Thanks Beatriz Smile
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20-01-2011, 01:19 PM
Post: #580
RE: Peter Firth
For anyone looking forward to South Riding, have just found out that the DVD release date has now been delayed until the 7th March.

So just guessing, I wonder if it will start on Sunday 20th February and run for 3 weeks.

Resisting the temptation to start reading the book at the moment!
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