Honestly? He will never know because he never asks? He has asked her before, and she refused. Later he told her again that he loves her, when she was running after the soldier. His whole behaviour proves all the time that he loves her. So she should know. But they haven't gotten together because he hasn't ask her again? Here we really see the stupidity of some social conventions such as that a proposal of marriage should only come from a man. And then she says (ironically?) that the appearance of HER courting HIM was dreadful. I thought she wanted to be such an emancipated, independent woman who takes charge of her own affairs. She could have confessed her love to him, instead of almost letting him slip away to America just because in the 19th century a woman can't ask a man to marry her.
Did you read the novel? In the book their dialogue is much more witty, when she talks about having "courted" him, for example, she talks laughing. And in the novel she goes to his house at night alone (this was very radical) to ask him to stay and to apologize if he was offended, she was very emotional as she thought he didn't understand what she wants to say to the affirm that it is still too soon for them to marry. When asking him to propose again, in fact she is asking him, you know? I think that although the dialogue is faithful to the book in this adaptation, the tone is very wrong.
@@evelinmenezes9313 Thank you very much, I haven't read the novel yet. What you describe sounds much better. Tess is the only Hardy novel I have read so far.
@@motherofpearlmusic2015 You're welcome! It's a wonderful novel. This adaptation is great, but the ending is hurried and doesn't capture the liveliness of this dialogue. After this scene the narrator tells us: "They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends. Theirs was that substantial affection which arises (if any arises at all) when the two who are thrown together begin first by knowing the rougher sides of each other’s character, and not the best till further on, the romance growing up in the interstices of a mass of hard prosaic reality. This good-fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through similarity of pursuits, is unfortunately seldom superadded to love between the sexes, because men and women associate, not in their labours, but in their pleasures merely. Where, however, happy circumstance permits its development, the compounded feeling proves itself to be the only love which is strong as death - that love which many waters cannot quench, nor the floods drown, beside which the passion usually called by the name is evanescent as steam."
True. She is fickle and it comes across in the novel too. And she uses the sweetheart at the last minute like he was supposed to know that she thought about him like that. She is manipulative in the novel. The latest movie has a similar ending to the novel. She married the soldier because she was passionately in love with him. Even if he threatened her and told her about another woman she married him. I don't think she ever loved Gabriel. He asked her before and she was adamant that he was not her choice. But when everyone abandoned her she realized she needed to marry him for the convenience. In the novel she is fickle as hell. He expressed his love in many ways but later when he was dead set on leaving she called him her sweetheart and emotionally manipulated him. Even Gabriel in the book is cynical throughout the novel about her. Unlike in the movie.
Its interesting how Terence Stamp & Nathaniel Parker later costar in Disney's The Haunted Mansion! The latter was one of my first childhood crushes because of Mr Gracey!!!
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This was my favorite version. Always .
Took her long enough. Gabriel is amazing
Bathsheba doesn’t deserve a man like Gabriel!!! 😩
Yaaa😭😭😭 WE DESERVED HIM! 🙌
💯💯!!!!
Love this adaptation. Nathaniel Parker is the perfect Gabriel Oak, much better dare I say than Alan Bates or the other bloke(can’t spell his name)🤔😉
Wow this is a timeless story. Happy to see this adaptation. Matthias and Carey's latest adaptation is also beautiful.
the best part of the entire scene...
Honestly? He will never know because he never asks? He has asked her before, and she refused. Later he told her again that he loves her, when she was running after the soldier. His whole behaviour proves all the time that he loves her.
So she should know. But they haven't gotten together because he hasn't ask her again? Here we really see the stupidity of some social conventions such as that a proposal of marriage should only come from a man. And then she says (ironically?) that the appearance of HER courting HIM was dreadful.
I thought she wanted to be such an emancipated, independent woman who takes charge of her own affairs. She could have confessed her love to him, instead of almost letting him slip away to America just because in the 19th century a woman can't ask a man to marry her.
Did you read the novel? In the book their dialogue is much more witty, when she talks about having "courted" him, for example, she talks laughing. And in the novel she goes to his house at night alone (this was very radical) to ask him to stay and to apologize if he was offended, she was very emotional as she thought he didn't understand what she wants to say to the affirm that it is still too soon for them to marry. When asking him to propose again, in fact she is asking him, you know? I think that although the dialogue is faithful to the book in this adaptation, the tone is very wrong.
@@evelinmenezes9313 Thank you very much, I haven't read the novel yet. What you describe sounds much better. Tess is the only Hardy novel I have read so far.
@@motherofpearlmusic2015 You're welcome! It's a wonderful novel. This adaptation is great, but the ending is hurried and doesn't capture the liveliness of this dialogue. After this scene the narrator tells us: "They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends. Theirs was that substantial affection which arises (if any arises at all) when the two who are thrown together begin first by knowing the rougher sides of each other’s character, and not the best till further on, the romance growing up in the interstices of a mass of hard prosaic reality. This good-fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through similarity of pursuits, is unfortunately seldom superadded to love between the sexes, because men and women associate, not in their labours, but in their pleasures merely. Where, however, happy circumstance permits its development, the compounded feeling proves itself to be the only love which is strong as death - that love which many waters cannot quench, nor the floods drown, beside which the passion usually called by the name is evanescent as steam."
@@evelinmenezes9313 Beautiful, thank you!
True. She is fickle and it comes across in the novel too. And she uses the sweetheart at the last minute like he was supposed to know that she thought about him like that. She is manipulative in the novel. The latest movie has a similar ending to the novel. She married the soldier because she was passionately in love with him. Even if he threatened her and told her about another woman she married him. I don't think she ever loved Gabriel. He asked her before and she was adamant that he was not her choice. But when everyone abandoned her she realized she needed to marry him for the convenience. In the novel she is fickle as hell. He expressed his love in many ways but later when he was dead set on leaving she called him her sweetheart and emotionally manipulated him. Even Gabriel in the book is cynical throughout the novel about her. Unlike in the movie.
Nathaniel Parker
Oh. My HEART.
Never knew this version of it..😮
Oh my heart ❤
Nathaniel Parker is the perfect Gabriel Oak though Alan Bates was also very good
Nathaniel Parker, those eyes, such a dreamboat. Lucky Bathsheba 😉
love all three of the movies...
Its interesting how Terence Stamp & Nathaniel Parker later costar in Disney's The Haunted Mansion! The latter was one of my first childhood crushes because of Mr Gracey!!!
I agree. FINALLY
I get it now
:)