...is really genius!! The film is entitled '' Rebecca '', out of a woman we never see, and the main character of the movie, the girl who is the center of the plot, remains nameless!!!Truly great!!
pacino,nicholson,deniro,hanks in a movie by scorcese,written by tarantino...am i asking too much?
Need to give the credit to Daphne for that one. It's the same in the book.
shareYes,sure!!She is a great writer!
pacino,nicholson,deniro,hanks in a movie by scorcese,written by tarantino...am i asking too much?
I remember reading somewhere that, at least initially, du Maurier did not name the main character simply because she couldn't think of/decide on one. It is quite genius though - it reflects all of the characters' obsessions with Rebecca over the 2nd Mrs de Winter.
shareXmmm,i guess coming up with a name is not that hard,so....!!!:P
Three of my friends saw a photo of Heath Ledger's and thought it was me......Creepy!!!
I just read an essay by Du Maurier and she said that the only reason that she didnt name the main character was because she couldnt think a name that suited her.
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In the book Maxim tells her she has "an unusual name." And when he sends her the roses (to apologize for being rude when he met her with Mrs. Van Hopper), our heroine notes that "my name was on the card and he had spelt it correctly, an unusual thing."
This bugged me to death when I was 16 and first read the book. What is her name, dammit! Later I decided I liked the mystery of it all...
I tried reading Rebecca decades ago and a few chapters in my head hurt lol! because I couldn't remember her name!!... I searched and realized there was none...
I always thought she was telling the story ..of course you wouldn't say your own name as you went along (unless you were nuts!) and the and Max had a nickname for her.... well I wish Daphne named her :):):)
I remember reading somewhere that Hitchcock and Selznick almost made the decision to name her Daphne (to pay homage to the author). It was thoughtful, but - wow - am I glad they decided to smartly stick to the novel on that one. It's just like their decision to never show flashbacks of Rebecca - something definitely best left to the imagination of the audience.
shareOne of the main reasons she doesn't have a name is so that she really DOES stand out in Maxim's word, it practically echoes how much of an outsider she is. Everyone has a name, even the old mentally unstable Ben, even the dog, even the servants.
2nd Mrs. DeWinter doesn't have a name so that it subtly stands out in the movie how different she really is.
I always thought "Jane" would be a suitable name for the second Mrs De Winter.In the movie version at least.
shareIn the book it was mentioned she had her father's first name although it was never divulged. Originally the script called the Second Mrs. De Winter "Daphne" after the author but reportedly Daphne De Maurier hated this as it took away the character's identity entirely if they gave her a name. The point was that her name was never mentioned deliberately so that she would always stand out.
sharewell, I'm thinking to get a vote on this idea... I must have been dwelling on this topic the other day , the t.v. was on and Sean Young came on the screen (was surfing) and then light bulb! mmmmmm... could be.... thinking of it I think it is a perfect fit to the character... imho.
sharehow interesting! do you know any other book/movie where the name of the hero is kept from us till the end?
shareInvestigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) - the "Chief" is as macho as Joan Fontaine is mousy.
shareJoseph Cotton gives a false name, Dupin, in "The Man with a Cloak" (1951). We don't discover his true name (a famous actual person from the 19th century) until the end of the movie.
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Maybe spelled, 'Jayne' to account for it being mentioned that it was seldom spelled right.
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I think that in Susan Hill's sequel, the name of the second Mrs. de Winter is Anne, which I found to be perfect because it conveys to me all the qualities of the character: innocence, purity and inner strength. Somebody else on this forum proposed Jane, which also sounds appropriate, though it suggests to me more strength, and therefore seems to match perfectly the Jane Eyre character :)
My suggestion would have been Anne from the start (and I can't think of another name!)
But we're told that it is a very lovely and unusual name, which most people spell wrong and I think there's a hint that it may be a name that is used for men and women since Max says that it becomes "Mrs DW" as well as it did her father..
shareI loved that the author didn't name the main character. It never bothered me when I read the book, either. I thought it was absolutely genius. As someone else said, the main character was always an outsider compared to everyone else at Manderley, even in the sense of her name. I loved that.
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It's annoying when you're talking about her like this, because you have to say 'her' etc. But it works really well to give her sense of anonymity compared to everyone else.
But I read somewhere that Du Maurier gave her no name simply because she couldn't think of one, not as a technique. Which is interesting, I wonder if it's true.
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I don't know if this is due to Hitch's genius, or my stupidity, but I never realized we hadn't heard her name until it was pointed out in the "making of" documentary.
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shareconcerning the name of "I", daphne du maurier wrote:
"I could not think of one, and it became a challenge in technique, the easier because I was writing in the first person. I later heard from Joan Fontaine, who starred in the first film of Rebecca with Sir Laurence Olivier as Maxim, that Alfred Hitchcock, the director, always referred to the narrator on the set as Daphne de Winter! Perhaps he was not so far from the truth..."
Oh my God. I feel so stupid. I can't even believe we never learn her name and I never even noticed it. I feel so effing stupid. I've seen this movie so many times and not once did it even cross my mind that we never know her name. I feel horrible. Seriously, I could probably cry right now.
shareif her name was her father's first name and was often spelt wrongly, i was thinking something along the lines of evelyn or something like that
shareHa I thought the same thing and that is my name as well. Persons often misspell it and it can be a man's name. It's also unusual, not many Evelyn's in the world...
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not many Evelyn's in the world
if her name was her father's first name and was often spelt wrongly, i was thinking something along the lines of evelyn or something like that
I was thinking the same thing...Evelyn. Shirley was also a name given to males in Britain at one time, but that wouldn't be difficult to spell correctly.
Perhaps it is something like... Siobhan, or Gwendolyn, or Peyton, Aliana...
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