Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter was one of the few pieces of required reading I was assigned in high school that I actually enjoyed, so I was a bit disappointed to realize that this 1995 silver screen version of events bears very little resemblance to the plot of the book. The scriptwriters really took the term “freely adapted” and ran it straight off a cliff.
This iteration of Hester Prynne is so extremely real and relatable though, because I too would gladly risk it all for long-haired, mid-thirties, billowy shirt-wearing Gary Oldman!!!
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter was one of the few pieces of required reading I was assigned in high school that I actually enjoyed, so I was a bit disappointed to realize that this 1995 silver screen version of events bears very little resemblance to the plot of the book. The scriptwriters really took the term “freely adapted” and ran it straight off a cliff.
This iteration of Hester Prynne is so extremely real and relatable though, because I too would gladly risk it all for long-haired, mid-thirties, billowy shirt-wearing Gary Oldman!!!
