Crash
Adapted By Andrew Davies
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Voiceover
We now go over to Andrew Davies's saucy adaptation of the twentieth century novel 'Crash'.
There is light violin music. The camera pans up a long, green silk dress and down to a think white hand, which is writing. It then cuts to the face of a young woman, sitting in a plush drawing room with eighteenth century architecture. The woman looks into the camera and smiles.
Charlotte
I havn't always been into crashing. My, I remember a time when I was just a little county bumpkin of hardly fifteen summers.
Charlotte, now with a slightly less pristine hairstyle and slightly less beautiful clothes, is sitting in a carriage with a Georgian gentleman.
Charlotte (V0)
It was my Uncle George that introduced me to crashing.
The camera then shows the carriage speeding along a country track, and then cuts back inside.
Uncle George
Charlotte, would you mind terribly if I asked you to hold on?
Another carriage speeds up the road towards Annie's, and there is the sound of a deafening crash. There is a slow montage of snatches of video that show bucking horses, splintering wood, broken wheels and Annie and Uncle George being thrown back in the carriage. There is a final picture of a trickle of blood running down the satin seat.
Charlotte (VO)
It was quite an experience for a young girl.
Charlotte and Uncle George are once again moving along in their carriage, though now looking slightly bedraggled, a little bloody and totally elated.
Uncle George
Did you enjoy that Charlotte?
Younger Charlotte
Oh, yes indeed!
Uncle George
Do you want a second shot at it?
Younger Charlotte
Oh, yes!
Charlotte (VO)
Well what else did you expect me to do?
