Stephen i Sophie Campbellowie
Aktorzy:
David France
Jan Rook
Rodzice Beatrice Campbell i dawni właściciele posiadłości Campbell Manor. Zginęli w wypadku samochodowym zaaranżowanym przez Roberta Murraya w połowie lat 80.
Zarówno Stephen jak i Sophie byli potomkami starych, zamożnych rodów i znali się od dziecka. Choć w ich sferach raczej nie zawiera się aranżowanych małżeństw, ich rodzice byli przekonani, że Stephen i Sophie są dla siebie stworzeni. Zachęcali ich więc gorąco, by spędzali ze sobą jak najwięcej czasu, aż młodzi zakochali się w sobie nawzajem na tyle, by zacząć rozważać małżeństwo.
Stephen i Sophie nie byli złymi ludźmi. Ich problemem była ich mentalność rodem z końca dziewiętnastego wieku, kiedy świat był podzielony na klasy, z których każda miała swoje obowiązki i przywileje. Sophie Campbell nie przepracowała więc w życiu ani dnia, jeśli nie liczyć działalności charytatywnej, która jednak nie przyniosła namacalnych efektów. Stephen z kolei udzielał się w polityce, działając na rzecz zaprzestania wszelkich prób uczynienia z Wielkiej Brytanii nowoczesnej, zróżnicowanej kulturowo demokracji.
Stephen i Sophie bardzo się troszczyli o swą jedynaczkę Beatrice i mieli w związku z nią wspaniałe plany. Miała zdobyć tytuł naukowy na prestiżowej uczelni, popracować rok czy dwa, by zobaczyć jak to jest, a potem poślubić odpowiedniego kandydata do ręki i spłodzić dwoje lub troje przyszłych dziedziców rodowej spuścizny.
Nawet w najgorszych koszmarach nie spodziewali się, że ich córka zakocha się w pospolitym kierowcy ciężarówki. To byłaby tragedia. A więc, gdy wspólny znajomy przedstawił Stephenowi Roberta Murraya – młodego człowieka z licznymi koneksjami i gotowym planem wyjścia z tej podbramkowej sytuacji – Stephen nie posiadał się ze szczęścia.
That’s sad, but the theme is known. Aristocratic family with traditions… I think that’s why they so much wanted their dother has a husband from their social class. You can not say, that they didn’t love Beatrice, but if they didn’t try to interfere in her life, they would still be alive.
By the way, it’s interesting, why they are decribed here and the’re played by some actors… Do you think they’re still alive when the movie starts?
Good question Ayradna :) I think that Stephen and Sophie will die in first, maybe second episode. What is more, I’m really curious about this accident. Have you got any ideas how Robert arrange it? I’d like to see a powerful beginning of Olive!
Hmm… Maybe you’re right. They can die at the very beginning. But they can also appear in next episodes in memories, don’t you think?
I’ve got no idea, how this accident how can this accident looks like… A bomb or another explosive is probably not the best idea, is it? :P
Hmm… Maybe you’re right. They can die at the very beginning. But they can also appear in next episodes in memories, don’t you think?
I’ve got no idea, how this accident how can this accident looks like… A bomb or another explosive is probably not the best idea, is it? :P
Everything I expect from someone like Robert Murray – even a bomb. However, I wish that the accident was presented in a surprising way. I also think that these scenes will be shown at the beginning in the movie. I wonder why Robert killed them? Someone can explain it to me?
For their aristocratic ideas: D To me their death will be presented in the middle of a flashback. Given their views, it probably was an assassination. I think that Robert will surprise us with something: D
Wow, your ideas are not bad! But we have to remember that Beatrice’s Parents will die in car crash, so Robert should arrange it like a car crash. I’m sure he will invents something ingenious! His bodyguards probably will help him. This is a great subject to discuss, because there are one of first and main themes of movie and we don’t know how film makers will show it us. I hope they will surprise us :)
I don’t think that Stephen and Sophie will first. It will by very easy script. When someone young will die it
can by riddle. Who? Why? This people have very boring life, especially, Sophie.
Her life is terrible!
I was also thinking about the time they will die or the role they will play in the movie. I think that some memories make the point. I really like families with tradition and Beatrice’s parents definitely had one. But it’s also important to balance the tradition with reality. I think that they couldn’t find themselves in this modern world.
Karolina, you’re right. People like Beatrice Parent’s can’t live in XXI century. Their views on world are too old, especially about hierarchy of society. I think they wouldn’t be interesting characters in movie, so it’s good that they die.
Adam, you’re right however Sophie is a reasonable woman. Her husband makes a problem. He mentally got stuck in the late 19th. He doesn’t know what the word ‘life’ means these days!
Yeah, for sure they’re a bit old fashioned, but don’t you think they’re cute in the way they are? I mean, it’s a kind of achievement to stay the same even though the whole world has changed!
Hmm… Maybe you’re right. People like to excuse oneself just not to say they aren’t guilty and like to say everything is so because world changes. It’s not so easy to stay with their own views when everything around isn’t so constant. But sometimes we all should check our mind and I think it’s even more difficult to accept changes which favor them. And I think this was a problem of Beatrice’s parents.
Old fashioned, no old fashioned-I dont like them. I dont respect people who dont give a choice of life for their kids. even if its done not overtly.
I don’t like such people. They are mentally stuck in the late 19th century, when the world was divided into classes, and each class has its rights and obligations. Now they’re trying to forcibly set the life of your child.
Right, it’s a difficult situation for children, when parents know better what’s good for them. On the other hand, if I were a mother I would also do my best for my daughter to give her everything what’s est for her (at lest best in my opinion)!
I also don’t like such people, but they don’t see what they’re doing. They have been mannered so and they do their best. Even if it’s not the best for their dother, they love her and it’s the way how they want show it.
Ananas, sometimes parents opinion is the worst, what can happend to their child… when I see them on the pictures they seem to be so nice, such a good people! I’m sure they are not able to hurt their daughter
MountEverest maybe they don’t realize that they do wrong if they interfere with son lives. Parents should give advices but not say what we MUST do.