#briony tallis

[queen-paladin]

I love you hated female characters. I love you female characters who are flawed. I love you female characters who mess up and try to do the right thing after. I love you female characters who get the undeserved vitriol from fans. I love you female characters who fans completely condemn because of one mistake they made. I love you female characters who fans completely condemn because of one mistake they made as a child. I love you female characters who people blame for ripping apart their ships instead of the larger forces that be. I love you female characters who get all the hate as the male characters who do worse in canon get absolutely none. I love you female characters who get hated on because they told a man “no.”

#feminism #books #female characters #literature #theatre #Amy March #if you can think of any let me know #Sansa Stark #Briony Tallis #cosette fauchelevent #Christine Daae #Lily Evans #nesta archeron #Georgiana Dymov #George Dymov #elain archeron #edwina sharma

[violaobanion]

SAOIRSE RONAN as BRIONY TALLIS in ATONEMENT (2007), dir. Joe Wright

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[coppoladelrey]

"I gave them their happiness.”

↬ Atonement (2007) | dir. Joe Wright

#cecilia tallis #robbie turner #briony tallis #atonement #atonement 2007 #keira knightley #james mcavoy #joe wright #dailyfilmtvgifs #filmtvcentral #dailyfilmsource #dailyfilcks #moviegifs #filmedit #filmgifs #dailyfilmandtv #usersource #coppoladelreygifs

[ecnmatic]

Atonement (2007) dir. Joe Wright.

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[showmethesneer]

I just finished rereading Atonement for the first time in 13 years. I've been calling it my favourite book and my favourite movie this whole time, and since I've been reading a lot more lately, I wanted to revisit and see if it's still the case. But it was kind of impossible to read without picturing the film the entire time.

Because for all the film adaptations of books that fail to capture or translate their story properly, Atonement is right there. Not only a perfectly faithful adaptation of the themes and events in the book, but actually one that elevates them.

An aesthetically sublime film in its own right... The score. The costumes. The scenery. The frenetic editing. The emotions. You can feel the heat of the summer day. Feel the chaos at Dunkirk. It's genuinely an artistic achievement. And it's one that stuck so incredibly close to its source material.

Yet there's one small change in particular that stands out to me because it's better than the book. And it's so small, but it is EVERYTHING.

When Briony comes to tell her sister that she's changing her testimony after all these years and Robbie yells at her for telling the lies that condemned him, in the book he says "and when I was inside (prison) did it give you pleasure?"

In the film, James McAvoy delivers this line with the words switched ever so slightly "Tell me, did it give you pleasure to think of me inside?" and he lingers over the word pleasure in a way that eroticizes the whole concept, in a way that reminds Briony and the audience that all this happened because Briony had a little scorned crush on him at 13. And puts the emphasis back on her imagination, imagining him inside, since this whole story is about her imagination. It's just.. that one line hits so much harder, both in the way it was written and in the way James McAvoy delivers it.

It's crazy. So many book to screen adaptations that fail and fall short and do a disservice to their source material... and then there's Atonement.

#atonement #ian mcewan #film adaptations #joe wright #christopher hampton #james mcavoy #briony tallis #robbie turner #acting

[blerdeblerdeblerr]

I accept all interpretations on the ending, and I personally love living in the ambiguity, but does anyone else think Silver is giving 'Briony at the end of Atonement' vibes?

"I did not kill Captain Flint. I unmade him. The man you know could never let go of his war. For if he were to exclude it from himself, he would not be able to understand himself. So I had to return him to an earlier state of being. One in which he could function without the war. Without the violence. Without us. Captain Flint was born out of great tragedy... I found a way to reach into the past and undo it."

"I couldn't any longer imagine what purpose would be served by it... by honesty. Or reality.

.... So, my sister and Robbie were never able to have the time together they both so longed for and deserved. Which ever since... I've always felt I prevented. But what sense of hope or satisfaction could a reader derive from an ending like that? So in the book, I wanted to give Robbie and Cecilia what they lost out on in life. I'd like to think this isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness. I gave them their happiness."

#black sails #john silver #atonement #briony tallis

[autumnrose11]

Briony Tallis is such an intriguing character to me, partly because she is so conflicting. I oscillate between being utterly disgusted with her, and kind of understanding where she was coming from. The very act of writing the novel and changing the end is somehow demonstrative of the fact that she’s grown up in more ways than one (in that she understands the crime she committed), and the way she manipulates the ending of Robbie and Cecilia’s love story (in that she’s still the little girl who wrote The Trials of Arabella). She enjoys control. She likes being in charge, and the power she wields to be able to manipulate the characters in her stories like puppets. She doesn’t like things happening of their own accord, things that are beyond her control – this is evident from the way she wants to direct the play and snaps at Lola for turning her plans topsy-turvy.  “If you’re going to be Arabella, I’ll be the director, thank you very much.”

The events of the book were set in motion because of her fancy, because she wanted to turn real life into a story, because she wanted to be the hero and the protagonist of the tale she was telling. Sometimes I think she has a bit of a God complex. There’s so much of her to unpack, more than any other character in the book. She knows everything that happened is all her fault. So by giving Robbie and Cecilia the happy ending they never got to have, she’s apologising in the only way she knows how. She’s well aware that nothing she does can ever make up for the cruelty of how Robbie and Cecilia’s love was thwarted. Atonement begins and ends as a story – her story, and her.

#Atonement #Briony Tallis #Ian McEwan

[mockscreens]

Hi 💖 I'd like to request Atonement lockscreens, please. I'm obsessed with the start of the film where it's all nature green and summer. (PS. I've been using your Emma and P&P lockscreens for years now. They're so lovely 🌺). Thank you!

thank you so much for your kind words! 💛 i've made more lockscreens of this movie btw, they're already in my drafts and ready to be posted!

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more lockscreens here!

#atonement #lockscreens #wallpapers #cecilia tallis #robbie turner #briony tallis #keira knightley #james mcavoy #perioddramaedit #requested

[calllen]

Why does everyone hate Briony?

She was just a little girl. When was the last time you were completely aware of your mistakes as an 8 year old?

She grew up, realized her mistake and tried everything she could to ATONE for it, til death did her part.

She wasnt a psychopath she was a child.

#atonement #ian mcewan #briony tallis

[gremlinhourz]

i just need to know does anyone else feel like briony from atonement is autistic?? like dgmw i really do get why people dont like her, but that doesnt mean she cant be autistic,,, its like its the way shes gets so caught up in her own thoughts that she fails to recognize other possibilities, like obviously thats not something exclusive to or definitively a part of autism, but i just i feel i definitely do that too,, oh also just adding in there her pride in being tidy and her need for control, and like people always describe her as "pretentious" and "entitled" but like idk i dont see it, like the part where she gets somewhat upset at finding out the twins are wearing her socks, its like idk cecilia didnt ask or let her know that she was letting the twins borrow briony's socks, even though its something small, to someone like briony who seems to value her stuff, i could imagine it would be off putting to find someone had taken/used it without at least letting her have a say in it, like i cant say for sure that she wouldve let them wear the socks if she was asked, but maybe she couldve pointed them to a pair she was more okay with loaning out, like idk, i know in the grand scheme of things and of the story the socks dont matter but i just keep thinking of it,, but also idk i at least have some respect for her because she doesnt try to shift the blame onto anyone else, she even says herself “She would never be able to console herself that she was pressured or bullied. She never was, She trapped herself, she marched into the labyrinth of her own construction, and was too young, too awestruck, too keen to please, to insist on making her own way back.”

#yeah idfk #but briony just screams autism to me #everyone irl that ive discussed this with have said “well i dont think it was intentional” for some reason #like okay? and? like obviously not to bash them because i dont think they meant anything bad by it #but like literature is meant to be subjective ya know #yes the authors intentions with a piece and a character matter and give insight into why things turned out the way they did #but that doesnt mean the different interpretations cant exist #briony tallis #atonement #OK EDIT: I KNOW ITS STUPID BUT I MADE THIS POST BEFORE READING THE WHOLE SOCK SCENE I HAVE NOW READ IT AND UNDERSTAND WHY CECILIA COULDNT #DIRECTLY ASK BRIONY ABOUT THE SOCKS #(i still think its fair for briony to be initially upset though even thought again it doesnt really matter) #but yeah im actually reading reading the book now and the more i read the more autistic i think briony is

[haventdecidedyet]

If I had a nickel for every time Saoirse Ronan played a literary character who is an aspiring writer struggling through her maturation from girlhood to womanhood who I feel embodies my own soul I would have two nickels which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice

#they are me inside #atonement #little women #briony tallis #jo march #ian mcewan #louisa may alcott #literature #saoirse ronan #writer #writers on tumblr #writers and poets #text post

[quiteunlikely-screencaps]

Saoirse Ronan as Briony Tallis in Atonement (2007)

#saoirse ronan #atonement #briony tallis #screencaps

[faintingheroine]

i don't know if you've read atonement, but the situation with briony and cecilia reminds me of nihal and bihter. briony is the main character. she is 13 but very complex, and cecilia is her 10 year older sister who is in contrast to her. briony is a writer and generally not "very active" (except for her moving the main plot with a mistake) and cecilia is a free spirit and has a forbidden relationship with their servant, that briony catches. most of the book is from briony's pov, but most covers have cecilia on them but not briony. the movie also seemed way more focused on cecilia and really didn't do briony justice. as a briony fan i really relate to your frustrations about nihal and bihter.

!!!! Wow what a coincidence! I just picked Atonement as the book to analyze for a project! It seemed like a book I would enjoy. And now I am genuinely excited about it!

At least this iconic classic cover of the book has Briony on it though:

I think she even looks here a bit like my go-to representative vintage photo for Nihal (I mean not really, but they have similar vibes):

But even this initial Atonement book cover can be likened to Halit Ziya’s friend starting his 1901 review of Aşk-ı Memnu by declaring that Nihal is the main character but that knowledge/thought slowly getting eroded until everyone started to accept Bihter as the main character.

Anyway, this ask really made me happy. I am always here for parallels and now I am even more excited about working on Atonement!

#atonement #aşk ı memnu #aşk-ı memnu #nihal #bihter #briony tallis #cecilia tallis #asks #aşk ı memnu asks #anonymous #book covers #mehmet rauf #vintage nihal

[makethosenarratorsfight]

UNRELIABLE NARRATORS; SIDE A

Margot Garcia Propaganda:

The entire story is told through her blog posts in which she details her "investigation" into two actors' personal lives. However, it's hard to know if she's telling the truth - much of her evidence comes from in-person anecdotes that no one can verify, leaving you to doubt whether any of it is real. Commenters are constantly trying to figure out her identity, many accusing her of lying. She eventually confesses that she had personal history with one of the actors and wanted to expose him for money laundering over a fandom grudge, and while the conclusions she reached were true, her methods and sources were often fake. (This part is Ending Spoilers so you can remove it from the propaganda if you want. idk) An anonymous comment later theorizes that she constructed a false narrative to frame him for murder, having done the deed herself

Briony Tallis Propaganda:

Wrote the entirety of the novel and changed the ending because she wanted to "atone" for causing her sister and sister's lover to die, there is the implication that she changed other small details and therefore may have changed/ made up events entirely.

#unreliable narrator battle #unreliable narrators #polls #side a #margot garcia #an unauthorized fan treatise #briony tallis #atonement

[keepingupwseries]

Atonement - Cecilia Tallis

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[lilac-wrists]

What Ifs... in Atonement:

I rewatched Atonement for the fifth time last night and proceeded to watch video essays, interviews or whatever there was about this story (in the near future I'll add 'read the book' to the list). And you know? The thing I cannot get out of my head is - well.. are - the "what if".

What if Briony never saw Cecilia and Robbie at the fountain?

What if Leon had never brought his friend with him?

What if Robbie had never taken the wrong letter? Or written two versions in the first place.

What if Briony had never told Lola about it?

What if Lola had told Briony about Paul's attitued towards her?

What if they had rehearsed the play and performed it during dinner?

What if the cousins had never run away?

What if Cecilia had attached her hair barrette better?

What if Robbie had noticed it felt and picked it up?

What if Briony had never noticed that shiny little thing on the carpet?

What if she had ignored it?

What if when they went to search for the twins Cecilia said 'Leon you and Paul go together, Briony you go with Lola and I will go with Robbie' or something along the lines?

What if Briony had listen to what Lola had to say instead of shoving her own narrative first?

What if Cecilia had talked to Briony about her feelings for Robbie after what she saw at the library?

What if the Tallis family wasn't full of snobs?

What if Robbie had endured the rest of his sentence in prison instead of enlisting?

What if Briony had own up to things sooner?

What if Robbie had escaped with Cecilia to the house on the coastline that day they met after three and a half years of longing?

Butterfly Effect after another after another this story is.

#atonement #ian mcewan #cecilia tallis #robbie turner #briony tallis #keira knightley #james mcavoy #saoirse ronan #benedict cumberbatch #joe wright #1940s #war world