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It can be tough to star in a quiet, romantic period film just when the testosterone-filled summer blockbuster season is heating up. But leave it to Carey Mulligan to add excitement to a Thomas Hardy adaptation about a farm girl who takes over her father's land and eventually goes from rags to riches. Her love interest, played by Matthias Schoenaerts (and his charmingly Owen Wilson-esque nose), succumbs to the opposite reversal of fortune.
Transcript
00:02Bailiff Pennyways
00:08Here is ten shillings and a further ten
00:11Why?
00:14This ends our association, you are dismissed
00:17I beg pardon, miss
00:18When my uncle was alive, this was a fine productive farm
00:22Since his death, it has fallen into ruin
00:26I can only assume
00:27I have resolved to have no bailiff
00:29At all, I've decided to manage everything
00:31Mr Pennyways, if you'll listen to me for a moment
00:33Mr Pennyways, a fire threatened to destroy the barn
00:36And you are nowhere to be found
00:43I have no use for a man like you, Mr Pennyways
00:47You are dismissed
00:58Get out while you can it
00:59I have no use for a man like you, Mr Pennyways
01:00Yeah, the water
01:02It is a few hours
01:02I am certain
01:02You are not afraid
01:03You are not afraid
01:03I am afraid

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