I remember as a kid thinking the "12 nannies" thing meant the kids were a terror (which we're supposed to think). But as an adult, my first thought from Maria's & the abbess' POV when the letter asking for a governess comes in is that this guy is probably harassing the help.
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He wrote a *goddamn nunnery* for help? which would seem to imply that: A) He can't locate a professional or even a local girl willing to take the job despite his vast sums of money. B) and/or He wants someone virginal and inexperienced living in his house.
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I'm sure there's an explanation for why all this was perfectly reasonable in the Real Life events, I'm just amused that the fictional version hits so differently as an adult than when I was a child.
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And I've said it before, but the biggest difference between Child Ana and Adult Ana is that as a child I thought Rolfe was a tragedy and as an adult I want Liesl to shoot him in the face with a sawed off shotgun. Or something equally action-y, I'm not picky.
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"It's strange: she seems happy to be back here [at the abbey], and yet she's unhappy too." Gee, maybe someone should ask whether she was grossly mistreated by the rich widower she fled here from.
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Maria tells the head abbess that she was frightened there and wanted to be safe--that she couldn't "face him again." "Maria, our abbey is not to be used as an escape. ...Are you in love with him?" Ma'am. MA'AM.
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I mean, the Abbess is right and we know she is because we've been following along, so +10 to her Insight rolls but phew this conversation lands differently as an adult.
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It's interesting to see how they made the Captain-Baroness-Maria plotline mirror Jane Eyre to a certain extent. The rich man courts a cosmopolitan heiress before falling for the governess.
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The only real difference that I can see at the moment is that Rochester was using the courting as a means to catch Jane's attention, while the Captain seems to have been initially sincere about the Baroness before falling for Maria.
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Replying to @AnaMardoll
Also the Captain's first wife is legitimately dead and not in the attic
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Also funny is how TVTropes uses this movie and GI Joe to generally establish "The Baroness" as the name for the unsympathetic wealthy independent woman character
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