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Schlesinger and Vinterberg each cast in the role of Bathsheba women who seemed to be particularly of the moment - Julie Christie, fresh from winning a Best Actress Oscar for Schlesinger's Darling (1965) and from having played Lara in David Lean's epic Doctor Zhivago (1966), and whose 'look' and 'style' were influencing women around the world, for the 1967 film; Carey Mulligan, widely acclaimed as the 'next great British actress' since her BAFTA-award winning role in An Education (Lorne Scherfig, 2009) and having recently played Daisy Buchanan in Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of the quintessential American novel The Great Gatsby (2013), for Vinterberg's film. [...]I shall astonish you all'.4 In the Schlesinger film, made as second-wave feminism was carving inroads into women's demands for workplace equality, Julie Christie's Bathsheba is presented in the corresponding scene as an uncertain newcomer to a world where she had not before been made welcome. [...]politely but firmly, Bathsheba orders Henery to sit down. Bathsheba's 'I shall astonish you all' speech is delivered as a triumphal coda to her defeat of the fired bailiff, a moment that removes all doubt that she is in charge - though after the workers leave the room she has to cradle her head in her arms and sigh in obvious relief.

A poem is presented.

A poem is presented.