The Hours - Giveaway!
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Movie Vault is proud to host a great prize giveaway for The Hours. The film revolves around three women in different eras who are all profoundly affected by the works of Virginia Woolf.
We are proud to have this exclusive giveaway, and are giving away two The Hours books!
How to enter:
How do you win? Easy! To enter the contest, simply sign up on our forums here and by the deadline of Feb 11/2003, the two people with the highest post count each win a book, see - easy!
If you are a current member of the forum, you are not eligable. Posts must be meaningful, no spamming (e.g. posting one word posts just to increase your post count). We have the right to moderate the forums as we see fit.
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The two lucky winners will each receive their very own copy of the book The Hours!
Here is a description of the book The Hours:
The Hours is both an homage to Virginia Woolf and very much its own creature. Even as Michael Cunningham brings his literary idol back to life, he intertwines her story with those of two more contemporary women. One gray suburban London morning in 1923, Woolf awakens from a dream that will soon lead to Mrs. Dalloway. In the present, on a beautiful June day in Greenwich Village, 52-year-old Clarissa Vaughan is planning a party for her oldest love, a poet dying of AIDS. And in Los Angeles in 1949, Laura Brown, pregnant and unsettled, does her best to prepare for her husband's birthday, but can't seem to stop reading Woolf. These women's lives are linked both by the 1925 novel and by the few precious moments of possibility each keeps returning to. Clarissa is to eventually realize:
There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined.... Still, we cherish the city, the morning; we hope, more than anything, for more.
As Cunningham moves between the three women, his transitions are seamless. One early chapter ends with Woolf picking up her pen and composing her first sentence, "Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." The next begins with Laura rejoicing over that line and the fictional universe she is about to enter. Clarissa's day, on the other hand, is a mirror of Mrs. Dalloway's--with, however, an appropriate degree of modern beveling as Cunningham updates and elaborates his source of inspiration. Clarissa knows that her desire to give her friend the perfect party may seem trivial to many. Yet it seems better to her than shutting down in the face of disaster and despair. Like its literary inspiration, The Hours is a hymn to consciousness and the beauties and losses it perceives. It is also a reminder that, as Cunningham again and again makes us realize, art belongs to far more than just "the world of objects." --Kerry Fried
Rules & Regulations:
Open to residents of the U.S and Canada only. Must be 18 or older to qualify, or have parental/guardian consent.
Contest Deadline:
This contest will end on: Feb 11 2003
*Winners will be announced or ASAP by e-mail.
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