1、The Hours,Background,Modern literature Time:1910-1945 Characteristics of Modernism Modern literature often features a marked pessimism, a clear rejection of the optimism apparent in Victorian literature. Modern literature often moves beyond the limitations of the Realist novel with a concern for lar

2、ger factors such as social or historical change ，this is prominent in stream of consciousness writing.,The Modernism emphasis on a radical individualism which can be seen in the many literary manifestos ，such as Richard Hollenbecks “First German Dada Manifesto” of 1918 . Modern literature attempted

3、to move from the bonds of Realist literature and introduce concepts such as disjointed timelines. Modernist literature developed a style that can be characterized by a preoccupation with stylistic novelty, formal fragmentation, multiple perspectives, and alternatives to traditional narrative forms.,

4、The film was adapted from a novel of the same name which won the Pulitzer Prize in the year of 1999.The writers signature work is A Home At The End Of The World.That work shocked the world and may make readers even unable to fall asleep .Compared with that one ,the charm of The Hours is more rested

5、with the magic of its composition and form.,The film complys completely with the trend and framework of the novel and take 3-step composition to describe the three womens one day in different spacetime.,The letter at the beginning of the movie,Dearest, I feel certain, that Im going mad again. I feel

6、 we cant go through another of these terrible times and I shant recover this time. I begin to hear voices and cant concentrate. So Im doing what seems to be the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I know that Im sp

7、oiling your life,and without me you could work and you will. I know. You see I cant even write this properly. What I want to say is that I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. Everything is gone for me, but the certainty of your goodnes

8、s. I cant go on spoiling your life any longer. I dont think two people could have been happier than we have been. Virginia,Performance,Director : Stephen Daldry Scripter Writer :DavyHare ReleaseDate :2002.12.18 Characters: Nicole Kidman-Virginia Woolf,Juliance Moore-LauraBrown Meryl Streep-Clarissa

9、Vaughan Stephen Dillance-Leonard Woolf John C. Reilly - Dan Brown,Awards,Csar Awards, France 2004 - Best Foreign Film (Nominate) Academy Awards, USA 2003 - Best Picture (Nominate) Academy Awards, USA 2003 - Best Actress in a Leading Role Academy Awards, USA 2003 - Best Actor in a Supporting Role (No

10、minate),Academy Awards, USA 2003 - Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Nominate) Academy Awards, USA 2003 - Best Director (Nominate) Academy Awards, USA 2003 - Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen (Nominate) Golden Globes, USA 2003 - Best Motion Picture Golden Globes, USA 2003 - B

11、est Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama,British Academy Awards 2003 - Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role Berlin International Film Festival 2003 - Best Actress Berlin International Film Festival 2003 - Best Actress Berlin International Film Festival 2003 Berliner orge

12、npos - Jury Award Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 2002 - Best Actress National Board of Review, USA 2002 - Best Picture,Modern scholarship,Recently, studies of Virginia Woolf have focused on feminist and lesbian themes in her work Woolfs fiction is also studied for its insight into shell

13、 shock, war, class, and modern British society,Major works,Her most famous works include the novels Mrs. Dalloway 戴洛維夫人 To the Lighthouse 燈塔行 Jakobs Room 雅各的房間 the book-length essay A Room of Ones Own Novels , Short story, Biographies, Drama Autobiographical writings and diaries,Themes,The main idea

14、 of the film focuses on three women of different generations whose lives are interconnected by the novel Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. Among them are Clarissa Vaughan , a New Yorker preparing an award party for her AIDS-stricken long-time friend and poet, Richard in 2001; Laura Brown, a pregnant

15、1950s California housewife with a young boy and an unhappy marriage.And Virginia Woolf herself in 1920s England, who is struggling with depression and mental illness whilst trying to write her novel.,Conflicts,Virginia Woolf,the woman is rapt in writing and has much gift and devotion about it.Under

16、this condition ,she begin to write her last novel Mrs. Dalloway, at the same time she is wandering on the edge of crazy.,LauraBrown,she lives in Los Angeles at the end of World War II.She is reading a novel named Mrs. Dalloway.The book caused much changes in her life without imagination.One day ,she

17、 find herself was pregnant again,unexpectedly she creased suicidal thoughts just like Mrs. Dalloway.,Classic Lines,To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face and to know it for what it is. At last to know it, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away. Leonard, always the ye

18、ars between us, always the years. Always the love. Always the hours. My life has been stolen from me. Im living in a town I have no wish to live in. Im living a life I have no wish to live. How did this happen? But if it is a choice between Richmond and death, I choose death.,You dont have to do anything you dont want to do. You can do as you like. You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard. Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more. Its contrast. Your life is trivial. You are so trivial.,Impressions,A womans whole life in a single da