Hi everyone, it's Lauren and welcome to
another episode in my Page to Screen
series, in this series I read or reread a
classic book and then compare all the
different film and TV adaptations that
there have been. If you enjoyed this video
there's a playlist in the description
box of all the other Page to Screens that
I've done to date. In this episode I'm
going to be talking about Jamaica Inn
by Daphne Du Maurier. Now,this is quite
an interesting Page to Screen
because there are only two adaptations of
it, one from 1939 and one from 2014. So two very
different perspectives there on how you
go about adapting a book for the big
screen and there will be spoilersr obviously
for Jamaica Inn all the way through
this video. Just so that everyone's up to
speed on the plot, Jamaica Inn follows
the story of a young girl called Mary
Yellan whose mother dies and she
has to go and live with her Aunt Patience and
her Uncle Joss who she's never met in
Jamaica Inn, which is in the southern
moors of Cornwall. While there she
learns that her uncle involved in
smuggling and much of the plot involves Mary
trying to get her Aunt Patience away from
Joss and away from the bed of evil which
has become entangled in.Other characters
include Joss Merlyn's brother Jem and
also the vicar of Alternun, Mr Davey
who turns out to be quite a shady
utoward character. The first adaptation
that we have from 1939 was directed by
Alfred Hitchcock and stars Maureen O'Hara
as Mary Yellan. This is a hilarious
adaptation I think apart from the title this
barely barely resembles the plot of
Jamaica Inn at all. For one thing Mary Yellan
is so beautiful and so posh and she has
such manicured eyebrows, it's just one
of the most ridiculous things I've ever
seen
considering she's supposed to be a farm
girl from another part of Cornwall.Tthis
film takes the characters of the
magistrate and Mr Davey the vicar and
molds them into this buffoon of character
of Sir Humphrey Pengallan who is both
magistrate and also orchestrator of the
smuggling. A lot of film takes place at
his estate which is just a lot of
buffoonery happening around these lavish
dinners that he's throwing and the
smugglers themselves aren't that scary, they're
kind of a little bit naughty and in fact
the character of Jem Merlyn doesn't
exist either, instead we have someone
called Jem Treehearne
who is part of the smugglers'
gang but he;s actually a police officer, he's
not a bad man he's just pretending to be a
smuggler to get in with Joss, and Mary
saves him from being killed and she
falls in love with him and it's all okay
because we can't have Mary falling in
love with a thief now can we?
There's really not much for me to say
about the film because it's just not
Jamaica Inn it's just a film about
smuggling with this kind of cartoonish
pantomime villain. I mean the ending is
absolutely ridiculous, he turns up and
ties people up and I'm it's just all
a romp
I mean there's nothing really that happens
that follows the plot and so it's hard to
take a critical view of this film
One thing this film does do is make it very
obvious from the outset that Sir Humphrey is
a baddie and he's actually behind all the
smuggling .This is a fault I found in
Jamaica Inn when I was reading it that
I thought he was quite obvious that
the vicar of Alternun was the baddie
like I think it was made very clear, but
Mary had no idea and I didn't feel like
the book was written in the way so the
reader was meant to know something that
Mary didn't, I felt like it was just a
fault in the writing that I knew
that. What this film does is what I think
should have been happening in the plot
really which is that Mary and Jem don't really
know what's going on but as a viewer
you know that this person is evil and they're
going into a trap
so I think that it handled that little bit
better, apart from that I mean it's just...I mean...
The real adaptation that we want to be
talking about here is the 2014 TV
mini-series. Now I think this is a really
really good adaptation and it doesn't
say very true to the book but I think it
handles all the themes of the book
really really well. When the series came
out it was actually criticized quite a
lot for the actors mumbling and
particularly Joss Merlyn. I do feel
like half the time I can't understand
what he's saying
to be fair I found that's okay because I
found it very a realistic, it's very
atmospheric and he's quite a scary
character so if you don't really know
what he's saying I almost feel
like that adds to it, so I didn't have a
problem there but I think potentially if
you're not from the UK it could be a
struggle to listen to people talking in
a Cornish accent under their breath if they're
mumbling quite a lot so
that could be a criticism there. What I
most enjoyed about this series is that I
felt like it corrected a lot of the faults
that I personally found in Jamaica Inn
when I read it so Jessica
Brown-Findlay is a really good Mary
she's quite tenacious but I mean, just by
nature of where she is, of her situation and
her being a woman, she is quite
powerless but she's very involved all the
time. When you read the book it's very
obvious that Mary is against smuggling
but she doesn't really seem to know what
to do and I like that Jessica
BrownFfindlay had a little bit more
to her
similarly with Aunt Patience, in the book
Aunt Patience is so downtrodden she barely
even speaks, she's so scared of Joss but she
also won't betray him. I loved Aunt
Patience in this adaptation because she
knew full well what was going on, in the
first episode
she's there helping the smugglers
getting the stuff off the beach
as is Mary in face, and they are very
upfront with her from the beginning like
'we are smugglers that's what's
happening here' There is a relationship
between them which is quite believable
although I think a bit laboured, like
they do lay it on a little bit thick but
I love that she knows her mind and she's
standing by her man but she's doing it
consciously not just because she's
scared of him. Something else that I found a
bit lacking in the book is that there
weren't very many main characters and
what I really liked about this
adaptaion is that they added characters
in. Mr Davey has a sister who is in
with him on all of the bad things that are
going on. There's a young sailor and
his fiancee who are involved in the smuggling
and it just feels like there's more
characters, that the story has a little
bit more depth and it gives us this
backstory to what's going on I mean
Mary comes along saying 'my father
was killed by smugglers' and then Joss is
like 'no, your father was a smuggler!'
you know, it's not in the book
but it's fine because it is it gives a
little bit more and background for the
plot
it depends how purist you are about
literature I suppose whether you
would enjoy this adaptation or not I
mean it does get a bit racy between Mary
and Jem in a way that is quite
unrealistic I think for the time but
I loved it, I mean you know Jem Merlyn,
marry me tomorrow, he was gorgeous. There was only
one point where I felt it went a little
bit too far and that was in the end with
the finale I felt like it all got a
little bit weird I mean the end of the
book I think Jem and the police come and
find Mary, the vicar's taken Mary
away and they come and find her and rescue her
but with this, Jem went by
himself with the vicar's sister and they have this
weird shoot-off and it just, it went a
bit strange and I felt like we never
really got a sense of Mr Davey's motives
like we never understand why he was...what
he was doing with Mary. But you know
I think the plot of the book's a little
bit poor in that regard so I think it did
really well with the source material
the sweeping shots of the moors were
absolutely beautiful
I thought was really atmospheric
I think if you're a fan of Jamaica Inn in general
I think you'll really enjoy this adaptation
but it is not exactly the plot
so just keep that in mind.It depends
what you want going into these
adaptations I think and I am all for
artistic lisence, I find it quite
annoying when filmmakers literally
transpose exactly what it is in the books
because then I think what's the point of
you? I can just read it. So I like when
they do something a little bit different
but you know that's my opinion
so I would love to hear from you below
if you are a fan of Jamaica Inn or not, if
you've seen either of these adaptations
A lot of you asked me to do one on
Rebecca, which I'm very happy to do, I
don't think there's that many
adaptations of Rebecca either
actually, but I will warn you I didn't
like Rebecca either as a book, I'm not
big Daphne Du Maurier fan so you know if
you really want me to Rebecca I am happy
to do one I don't know how it's going to
go down. My next Page to Screen is going to be
a little bit different and it's going to
be on Peter Pan and I'm really excited
because I have a beautiful copy of Peter
Pan and Wendy which I've not ever read
but I am really looking forwrad to actually
reading it because I feel like the story
is so much part of our collective
consciousness, there's been so many
different interesting adaptations of it
So I am looking for that, that will be
coming in about six weeks hopefully if I
keep on schedule, and I will see you in my
next video bye!
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