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Mar 16, 2021 · In 2001 the first Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (or Sorcerer's Stone if you're American), used a replica of the Lewis chess set – owned by British Museum curator Irving Finkel – that Ron and Harry have to overcome near the film's climax.
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Aaron Bady argued recently in the Los Angeles Review of Books that one of biggest pleasures of Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit is that things keep almost going wrong and then being fine. One contributor to the comfortable feeling the show provokes is the way that the sexism of the chess world never quite seems to affect Beth: She gets a “surrogate fam...
On the show, Beth goes out with a friend and gets drunk the night before her second match with Borgov in Paris. She wakes up late and loses the match because of this lapse in judgment. In the book, she takes three pills the night before that match, but wakes up “refreshed,” feeling “confident, smart, and ready.” She plays well (“her best chess,” sh...
The bender that ruins Beth’s match with Borgov is just one example of the way the show takes the subtler twists and turns of the book’s plot and dials them up a few notches, leaning on Beth’s addiction as a driving force. The show also relies heavily on coincidence in a way the book does not. Consider the way Beth unites with her old friend Jolene ...
The most striking change the show makes to the characterization of Beth’s friend Jolene has to do with the girls’ time in the orphanage together. In Tevis’ novel, when Jolene is 13 and Beth is nine, Jolene comes to Beth’s bed in the middle of the night and tries to get Beth to engage in mutual masturbation. When Beth, “terrified” by the situation, ...
Benny, the show’s string-bean trickster, seems to be a composite of a few players from Tevis’ book. In the novel, Beth sees an older chess player at one point at a tournament, holding court in a hotel lobby just as Benny does in the show. This man—who is not Benny—is wearing a black knit cap with a knife at his waist; he’s a “pirate” who looks like...
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- Townes isn’t explicitly queer. In the series, Beth meets Townes at her first local tournament in Lexington. Though she’s still a teenager and he’s a grown man, it’s clear she’s attracted to him.
- Beth’s rock bottom. Anya Taylor-Joy’s Beth slips down quite a dramatic spiral in the show. While her arc in the book is similar, she doesn’t hit rock bottom quite so hard.
- Alma. Beth doesn’t come crashing down so hard in the book because she and Alma aren’t as close. Her flaws are much more vivid and permanent, whereas in the show, Alma clearly goes through some change.
- The Paris game with Borgov. Since Beth doesn’t rely so heavily on alcohol in the book, she isn’t drunk during her game against Borgov in Paris. It’s an important tournament, but she isn’t completely disoriented the way she is in the show.
Jan 12, 2021 · One does not have to love chess to enjoy this seven-episode Netflix drama, The Queen’s Gambit. The story is solely in the character arcs, such as Harry Beltik’s (Harry Melling, who played Dudley Dursley in the Harry Potter films).
Dec 31, 2023 · “ The Queen’s Gambit is a 1983 American novel by Walter Tevis, exploring the life of fictional female chess prodigy Beth Harmon. A bildungsroman, or coming-of-age story, it covers themes of adoption, feminism, chess, drug addiction and alcoholism. — – Google Books.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is a fantasy novel written by the British author J. K. Rowling. It is the third instalment in the Harry Potter series. The novel follows Harry Potter, a young wizard, in his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
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