Mr. Loveday´s Little Outing

The Film

Tittle of the story:

“Mr Loveday’s Litlle Outing”

Characters:

Lady Moping – Maggie Smith

Lord Moping – Anthony Hopkins

Angela – Emma Watson

Mr Loveday – Jim Broadbent

The Doctor – Jude Law

Sir Roderick Lane-Foscote – Orlando Bloom

Mr. Loveday´s Little Outing

Place of The Film:

England

Changing the Story:

The story would not be changed. I would just film some scenes that in the story are only narrated or mentioned, for example: The garden party scene; Angela’s search for help to release Mr Loveday. Her meeting with Sir Roderick Lane-Foscote.

The Language

Made by:

The Background

“Lord Moping habitually threatened suicide on the occasion of the garden party; that year he had been found black in the face, hanging by his braces in the orangery; some neighbours, who were sheltering there from the rain, set him on his feet again, and before dinner a van had called for him.”

(p68, l 16-21)

• English society from 20th century had a typical behavior of separate the high class from the low class.

By Evelyn Waugh

• Lady Moping’s annual Garden Party. This kind of event was normal in english high class of this time.

“Half a mile up the road from the asylum gates, they later discovered an abandoned bicycle. It was a lady’s machine of some antiquity. Quite near it in the ditch lay the strangled body of a young woman, who, riding home to her tea had chanced to overtake Mr Loveday, as he strode along, musing on his opportunities.”

(p72, l 225-228)

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“Well, miss, it sounds ungrateful, but I can’t deny I should welcome a little outing, once, before I get too old to enjoy it.”

(p71, l 171-172)

• About family life, we do not know much but we understand that the Moping family members are not very close to each other.

• We learn that there is a “hunting season” in England.

Evelyn Waugh

• British writer, one of the greatest British satirists of the 20th century

The Time and Place

• Studied in Oxford and tried to be teacher, without success

• Attempted to commit suicide through drowning but repented when he was bitten by a jellyfish

Beginning of twentieth century

62 aged

In England

• He was saved by literature and Catholicism in 1930

Born in 28 October 1903 in England

Died in 10 April 1966 in England

Had two wifes:

. Evelyn Gardner (1929-1930 and annulled in 1936)

. Laura Herbert (1937 until his death)

Had seven children

• He died on Easter Sunday after Mass, in the bathroom.

• The story begins with a conversation between Angela and Lady Moping over Lord Moping and the place where he finds himself.

If the time and place are not given it does not matter because...

The Theme

The story talks about:

• Mr. Loveday´s sanity / madness

• Lady Moping´s selfishness

• Angela's kindness