Her conservative wardrobe consists of large overcoats, ankle-length floral-patterned dresses, and understated bonnets, which match her reserved personality. Instead, its pastoral love story serves those in search of a melodramatic escape.Ĭonsider the casting of Carey Mulligan as Mrs. The Dig steers clear of the nitty-gritty detail some archaeology aficionados might crave. Simon Stone’s historically inspired Netflix film The Dig, adapted by Moira Buffini from Preston’s novel, seizes on the little-known historical event to craft a sometimes tedious romance concerning war and mortality that’s bitten by tired Hollywood conventions. Their partnership, along with the help of others, led to one of Britain’s biggest archaeological finds - a 7th-century Anglo-Saxon burial ship. While many believed the mounds dated back to the Vikings, Brown had other ideas. Pretty hired Brown, described by his colleagues as a difficult and unorthodox man, to mine the large burial mounds occupying her backyard. Robert Preston’s 2007 historical novel The Dig was inspired by a little-known but historically significant British event: on the eve of World War II, in 1939 Suffolk, a self-taught yet well-experienced excavator, Basil Brown, was called to the country estate of Edith Pretty, a widowed mother of one.
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