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Is anyone else dying to see this movie? After reading more than one review that indicates that not only is this movie enjoyable and beautiful -- more importantly, it's apparently clean. The costumes look excellent from the images I've seen so far, and I'm hoping the music is good (and period-esque enough) to justify purchasing a soundtrack.

Hence my sudden urge to plaster the promotional images (in this case, Abbie Cornish clad in a lovely pink as John Keats' real-life love interest Fanny Brawne) across my desktop...LOL! So I thought I'd share with everyone else, just in case there exists another hopeful desirous of becoming a fan! (Fingers crossed that it'll be better than the last Regency biopic travesty...coughBecomingJanecough...)

Oh, and the "fitting quote du jour" for this WP also happens to be the source of the film's title.

Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art--
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors--
No--yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever--or else swoon to death.

Description
Is anyone else dying to see this movie? After reading more than one review that indicates that not only is this movie enjoyable and beautiful -- more importantly, it's apparently clean. The costumes look excellent from the images I've seen so far, and I'm hoping the music is good (and period-esque enough) to justify purchasing a soundtrack.

Hence my sudden urge to plaster the promotional images (in this case, Abbie Cornish clad in a lovely pink as John Keats' real-life love interest Fanny Brawne) across my desktop...LOL! So I thought I'd share with everyone else, just in case there exists another hopeful desirous of becoming a fan! (Fingers crossed that it'll be better than the last Regency biopic travesty...coughBecomingJanecough...)

Oh, and the "fitting quote du jour" for this WP also happens to be the source of the film's title.

Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art--
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors--
No--yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever--or else swoon to death.