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Oct 21, 2020 · After a whirlwind romance in Monte Carlo with handsome widower Maxim de Winter (Armie Hammer), a newly married young woman (Lily James) arrives at Manderley, her new husband's imposing family estate on a windswept English coast.
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- Drama, Mystery, Romance
- Ben Wheatley
- 2020-10-21
- How (& Why) Rebecca de Winter Died
- How Maxim Got Away with Murder
- Why Mrs. Danvers Burns Down Manderley
- How Rebecca's Ending Is Different in The Book & Hitchcock Film
- The Real Meaning of Rebecca's Ending
As Mrs. de Winter learns from the file in the doctor's office, what Jack Favell (Sam Riley) believed - and Rebecca claimed in her confrontation with Maxim - was an illegitimate pregnancy was actually an advanced cancerous growth in her uterus. With only weeks left to live, Rebecca was not only facing the prospect of her death being slow and agonizi...
In an effort to save himself, Maxim put the body in the cabin of Rebecca's boat, scuttled it badly enough to make it sink, and pushed it out to sea. When the body of a different, unknown woman washed up in Edgecombe two months later, he identified it as Rebecca, hoping that it would put an end to everything. After the costume ball, however, a tanke...
Throughout Rebecca, Mrs. Danvers effectively acts as the proxy for Rebecca's vengeful spirit. She was Rebecca's personal maid and came to Manderley with her following Rebecca's marriage, making Mrs. Danvers loyal to the first Mrs. de Winter rather than to Maxim. As far as Mrs. Danvers is concerned, Manderley belongs to Rebecca, not to Maxim or to h...
The ending of Wheatley'sRebecca is both more and less faithful to Du Maurier's novel than Hitchcock's adaptation, in different respects. The story of how Rebecca de Winter died - shot by Maxim before being pushed out to sea as a cover-up for the murder - was changed for Hitchcock's film due to the Hays Code. Formally known as the Motion Picture Pro...
The function of Rebecca's final act is to turn everything that Mrs. de Winter thinks she knows on its head. She believes that Max is pining for the only wife he ever really loved, and constantly comparing her unfavorably to Rebecca. She believes that Rebecca was a perfect woman and a perfect wife who tragically drowned and left her husband inconsol...
- Hannah Shaw-Williams
Oct 16, 2020 · When the unnamed narrator of marries the widower Maxim de Winter, she barely knows anything about him. Swept away by this dazzling mysterious man, the naive young woman goes back with him to the family manor, a Gothic monstrosity called "Manderley."
Language. English. Rebecca is a 2020 British romantic thriller film directed by Ben Wheatley from a screenplay by Jane Goldman, Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse. Based on the 1938 novel Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, the film stars Lily James, Armie Hammer, Kristin Scott Thomas, Keeley Hawes, Ann Dowd, and Sam Riley.
- 16 October 2020 (United Kingdom)
REBECCA (2020) movie trailer - starring Lily James as Mrs de Winter. BritishPeriodDramas. 2.44K subscribers. Subscribe. 791 views 10 months ago. REBECCA is available to watch on Netflix...
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Oct 23, 2020 · Published Oct 23, 2020. In Netflix's Rebecca, Lily James plays the second Mrs. de Winter - but her first name and maiden name are left unknown. Here's why. In Ben Wheatley's new adaptation of Rebecca on Netflix, Lily James plays the protagonist of the film - the second Mrs. de Winter.
Oct 15, 2020 · Oct 14, 2020 9:00pm PT. ‘Rebecca’ Review: Lily James and Armie Hammer Brighten Up a Brooding Classic in Netflix’s Overtly Romantic Remake. If 'High Rise' director Ben Wheatley seems like an...
