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The Dig: Suffolk man s role as Ralph Fiennes assistant
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In The Dig, a fictionalised real-life account adapted from a novel, Ralph Fiennes plays Basil Brown, a local excavator with a love for astronomy, who has a reserved outer shell. Replying when spoken to, Basil is a warm-hearted, unflinchingly loyal man of few words who is a genius excavator; his modesty doesn’t allow him to say he’s an archeologist.
The real Basil had a mind for academics: he held diplomas with distinction for astronomy, geography and geology through correspondence courses; he had left school at the age of 12 to assist his father who was a tenant farmer (ie a farmer who resides on a landlord’s property).
The Dig on Netflix is based on the novel of the same name by John Preston.
As WWII looms, a wealthy widow hires an amateur archaeologist to excavate the burial mounds on her estate. When they make a historic discovery, the echoes of Britain s past resonate in the face of it s uncertain future.
The film approaches archaeology with a new level of subtlety and accuracy.
Edith Pretty was convinced that the mounds on her land in Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, held important archaeological secrets. In 1939, on the eve of the second world war, she was proven right as the sumptuous ship burial of an Anglo-Saxon king was uncovered. For a nation on the brink of war and facing its own dark age , the
Lily James as archaeologist Peggy Piggott
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Controversy has raged around The Dig, a new Netflix film about the great historical findings at Sutton Hoo, on the grounds that late archaeologist Peggy Piggott is portrayed as “bumbling”.
When I read this, I was delighted. There aren’t enough bumbling women on television. It means our social position is still too weak. Bumbling in the public eye is the preserve of those with sufficient power and confidence to carry it off. Just look at the Prime Minister! Do you think a woman could have become First Lord of the Treasury if she’d been photographed dangling over a public park from a broken zip wire, socks exposed and cheap plastic flags in each hand?
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