AIBU to be surprised there is no proper film about the plague?

[AliceNotInChains]

Would love to see a proper well done movie about the plague - AIBU to be suprised that it hasn’t been done?? Titanic style

Exactly. The very popular novel I’ve sometimes been surprised hasn’t ever (to my knowledge) been filmed, Connie Willis’s The Doomsday Book (timetravelling history student is accidentally sent to the Black Death and can’t be recalled because there’s a contemporary pandemic) hasn’t been filmed in part because the latter part of the Black Death timeline is so horrifying as the time-traveller, who is immune, nurses all the characters we’ve got to know as they die horribly.

the monarch and court debunked to their country estates

decamped

Covid the Movie would be so much easier script wise.

Romance: Matt Hancock and Gina Thingy
Plot twist: Dominic Cummings
Light humour: Boris Johnson

Settings:
Houses of Parliament
Barnard Castle
Matt Hancock’s love nest

Music:
Dancing Queen
Chimes of BBC News at 6

She’s got a whole catalogue ahead of her.

Septic Pizza
Seeping with the Enemy
Dying Young

I'm imagining a Busby Berkeley-style musical, called "Bring Out Your Dead" 😀 🧟 💃 🕺 🦠 🐀 🎶

Is that the one where she can’t speak the local language at first as the translation implant has gone wrong? With the priest who sort of falls in love with her, helps care for the sick then dies himswlf? If so thank you - I’ve been trying to remember the name of the book for ages without success!

Hamnet

Restoration, 1995 dir. Michael Hoffman and starring Robert Downey Jr.
Plague and Great Fire! I remember it being pretty naff.

I think some kind of Robert Eggers tale could for this. I think he’s the only one that could pull it off!

Yes and for some reason I thought it only affected the densely populated London

It was a passing comment by a historian at Dunfermline Abbey that told me different, that's a mass grave from the plague of x date and the one over there is y date. 😳

When Covid hit, the English/Drama teacher at the learning centre I TA’d at did this with a group online.

Well done, Teresa! (We’ve both retired now)

There isn't one about the Pendle witch trials either

The Journal of the Plague Year.

All the stats could be presented as text on the screen. Be just like reading the book, oh, hold on a minute , bit of a flaw in the argument there, back in a while……

The Crucible. Though names might have been changed to protect the innocent. And a slight location variance as well, but that’s the wonder of cinema, you can do things to history that make historians go into a corner and gibber. Think Braveheart.

There were a lot of witch trials.

The Crucible was based on the Salem Witch trials, not the Pendle ones. Arthur Miller didn't change the names of the real life protagonists although he did change some of the ages and relationships. From memory, he made one of the girls older to allow for a relationship between her and John Proctor.

That’s another one that would make a great film!

We had to do this play about Eyam. I remember having to say "Doesn't the air smell sweet tonight?" I became obsessed with whether I could smell anything sweet.

Runaway from The Bride

@AliceNotInChains according to @Notmyreality you don't "really mean it" when you asked about plague films 😭

I actually love this play
performed it at school and as a teacher occasionally bring it out when I have a spare week and we all do a read through. They get weirdly into wondering who will die next (there’s about 30 roles!) haven’t done it post Covid though….

The romance:
Lost love of Rowland Torre and Emmott Sydall | Stoney Middleton Heritage https://share.google/2ZeS4K7atEkgERfya

I’m surprised the very readable “Turn of Midnight” by Minette Walters hasn’t been mentioned yet. It’s set in Dorset in a moated village which barricades itself in: the bubonic plague is thought to have landed in medieval England at Melcombe Regis, near Weymouth. It really brought to life for me what it might have been like as the plague ravaged the countryside, villages, people.

It doesn’t sound very promising but it’s a really interesting and entertaining read!!

Genius @Thiswasanescapeplan

Yes, that’s the one, @AllTheChaos. It’s not the translation implant that’s gone wrong, just that the contemporary scholars simply didn’t know enough about the language as it was used then to programme it, until it picked up more material once Kivrin actually arrived (because the whole period had been barred for time travel as too dangerous.) And yes, sweet Father Roch falls for her but also thinks she’s a saint sent by god to help them.

I stand corrected. 😷