Emily ... Brontë?🎭🪦👻

Emily (2022)

I had been meaning to watch the 2022 movie 'Emily' for some time now, and last week the DVD crossed my path in an Op Shop, and I bought it thinking it was time I watched it, as I'm right into reading and listening to biographies ... and semi-fictious biographies right now -

Trent is Eli Bell in this semi-autobiographical
novel and Emily wrote as Ellis Bell?!

Does the Thrift Shop Biography Podcast on Demi Moore have any SUBSTANCE?📕👀

Emily Brontë was Born the Year Frankenstein was Published?

But the movie 'Emily' is "... a 2022 British biographical drama film written and directed by Frances O'Connor in her directorial debut. It is a part-fictional portrait of English writer Emily Brontë (played by Emma Mackey), concentrating on a fictional romantic relationship with the young curate William Weightman."

So how "true" is it?

It's a truly magnificently filmed movie, but it takes a lot of liberties with the life story of Emily Brontë and the real-life people around her, I think.

Although it is a thought-provoking pondering into just where such inspiration comes from.

 The talk last night about the Lumina Tarot deck from my POV

And the truly bizarre thing is I started watching this movie on Friday the 6th of September when I came home from a tarot card launch at The Avid Reader bookshop, which I wrote about attending in this recent post -

The Good Mourning Podcast is Back and on September 6th?🎤👻🦋

Emily (2022)

Although, I didn't plan to watch it on Friday night and I didn't watch my DVD I bought.

I was flicking through my STAN streaming service list and saw I had it marked to watch months ago in "my list", so I watched it on STAN.

But I was so tied I fell asleep Friday night watching it and had to watch it from the start on Saturday when I could stay awake.
And I nearly spit my drink out in surprise when I saw that the real-life William Weightman had died on September 6th?!

William Weightman

I find it ironic how the lives of famous authors, actors and musicians become the fodder of semi-fictious biopics and media ... and sometimes it's their own fault -

BBC World Book Club:
Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love

Every Story is Part Myth No Matter How True People Want You to BeLIEve it is?

I couldn't help thinking how Emma Mackey could pass as Margot Robbie's sister while I was watching 'Emily':-)

Well, Emma did play Physicist Barbie in the Barbie movie;-)

Margot Robbie Is Nobody’s Barbie:
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Vanity Fair?🎥🎭🎬👏