NORTHANGER ABBEY - BBC (1986) Roman Bath Scene

[enigmaticallyso]

What the...?

[yoasolas]

Reality was much  creepier than this.......I think this scene is cool.......and refreshing.

[timelordtenfan]

what the hell is with the cowboy hat?

[SoftHeartConviction]

LOL!! this is hilarious!

[spankbandit]

whoa

[Muck006]

Bonnets (the hats) are really practical for protecting the pretty but complicated hairstyles of the time. After sitting for an hour or so in the morning, during which your maid does your hair, you wouldnt want it to be blown away in the first gust of wind. The same is probably true for protecting the hair from the humidity of the air in the warm bath.

This is all derived from thinking about the logic of it and I dont have any "proof" for it, it simply seems plausible.

[TheEditrix92]

0:52 - "I noticed she wears as little as possible." LOL!

I agree with the rest of you, this scene is one of the weirdest things I've seen in a JA adaptation!!

[duozo]

This version is so funny ... in a good way ! Sometimes that's interesting to revisit classics ;)

[zannaallen]

okay I need to read the book and see if this is true...I really couldn't take this scene seriously!! hahaha :D

[loveambertamblyn]

this scene is not in the book!!

[lunaverna]

In the book they were only drinking water.

[marianaah]

this has to be the most bizarre thing ever done in an ataptation of one of jane austen books!! what the f... is this! how creepy! and so not posible for men a women to be in a place like that with clothes like that in that time! I just think the director got high when he did this!

[walkcordatus]

@marianaah Lol, I'm yet to read the book, but I'm glad to know someone else thinks this is weird as well. I wonder what the director wants to say. Is this scene even in the book?

[marianaah]

@walkcordatus no, it isn't, the 2007 adaptation makes more sense, and it still changes the plot in some way or another to be able to adapt it to a 2 hour movie, but this scene has no explanation

[JescGirl]

I must confess that I find this scary

[animegirlUK]

I would be interested to know if men and women did actually bathe together in Bath in Austen's time, wearing their hats, those orange things and plates which float on the water. What is on those plates anyway? Was this just the Director having fun? Can anyone tell me?

[KingAndrewI]

I know that the Roman Baths at Bath were lined with lead so no one can go in them nowadays, but I'm not sure if they knew that in Austen's time. Still though, this type of thing would have been totally inapropriate and absurd back then.

[tansytea13]

The stuff on the plates is pot pourri - to counteract the smell of sulphur from the water. And the women did wear those yellow dresses in the baths - the cloth would have turned yellow from the sulphur anyway, so the pre-dyed them. I'm not so sure about the hats, but it wouldn't surprise me if they did do that in the Regency period! but men and women would most certainly not have bathed together, any more than they would have during Roman times.