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The Scarlet Letter
1995 · Film · 135 min
Directed by Roland Joffé
Set in puritanical Boston in the mid 1600s, the story of seamstress Hester Prynne, who is outcast after she becomes pregnant by a respected reverend. She refuses to divulge the name of the father, is "convicted" of adultery and forced to wear a scarlet "A" until an Indian attack unites the Puritans and leads to a reevaluation of their laws and morals.
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Some of them are also just badly written, like The Scarlet Letter - the impression that stuck with me was it took way too long to get to the point, so much so that the second half of the book contained needed context for the first half to have any meaning at all.
And I was one of the few who got it when we read it. I don't think anyone I knew realized the movie Easy A shared any themes with that book, but it was just so much better done they understood the relevant themes from it.
He's pretty bad in The Scarlet Letter, a schmaltzy romance. His performance as Beethoven in Immortal Beloved is quite an acquired taste.
He's also done a long list of terrible B-movies like The Courier, out of necessity (he's been open in interviews about difficulties getting roles), and it often shows in his performances that he's not passionate about them.
Exactly. During my English & Film Studies major we studied all kinds of texts, some of them very poor quality e.g. the early 90s adaptation of The Scarlet Letter - but the lecturers always found something useful to say about them, and almost never talked about them as 'good' or 'bad'.
The Scarlet Letter is not obscure, there was even a major Hollywood movie made a few years ago that was extremely loosely based on it.
Perhaps you need to read more.