The only live-action version of this I've seen was the...I think it was the Yuki Troupe of Takarazuka putting it on. OMG we were all dead of sparkles, even up at the top of the house. (Okay, wait, the best scene is when Percy and his #1 sidekick go on about Chauvelin looking for manly aristocrats who could be the Pimpernel, so they have to be even more dandified, so they throw open a closet in the wall and don...pink and zebra-striped floor-length coats with rhinestones. No, seriously, it was amazing.)
I really actually kind of resent Orczy's artistocratic bias in some ways; it gets in the way of my enjoying the book. But when I read the book in high school, the melodrama was exactly what I wanted--and I do like Marguerite, and how no one makes any bones about the fact that she's thrown herself away on Percy Blakeney.
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Date: 2010-05-26 12:44 am (UTC)I really actually kind of resent Orczy's artistocratic bias in some ways; it gets in the way of my enjoying the book. But when I read the book in high school, the melodrama was exactly what I wanted--and I do like Marguerite, and how no one makes any bones about the fact that she's thrown herself away on Percy Blakeney.