The Dig tells the true story of English landowner Edith Pretty (Carey Mulligan), who hired archeologist Basil Brown (Ralph Fiennes) to excavate the mysterious mounds on her Sutton Hoo estate in southeast Suffolk in 1937. Let's get into The Dig true story, and just how accurate The Dig is. So sit back, enjoy the story, and take in the great performances by Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes-but if you're interested in what really happened, you might want to purchase a non-fiction book. However, though The Dig is based on a true story, the key source material is not so much the history as it is a historical novel. Novelist John Preston set about educating the masses with his 2007 novel The Dig, which has now been adapted for the screen by writer Moira Buffini and director Simon Stone, and began streaming on Netflix on Friday.
But for those of us across the pond, The Digon Netflix has a lot to teach audiences about the true story of one of the most important archeological discoveries of the 20th century. The story is truer than true, recalling the real-life moment British cello virtuoso Beatrice Harrison took her dignified instrument to her garden, and a songbird joined in.If you grew up in England, you probably learned about the 1939 Sutton Hoo excavation in school.
“At first she couldn’t believe it, so she started playing a sonata, and the nightingale accompanied her.”
One night she was playing a scale and a nightingale joined in. “In the summer evenings she used to practise in the garden. “There’s a wonderful cellist called Beatrice Harrison,” Peggy says. There’s a wonderful scene in which young archaeologist Peggy (Lily James), tells Rory (Johnny Flynn) of the time a cellist inadvertently played a duet with the nightingales inhabiting her garden. Is the story of the cellist and the nightingale real? Read more: Soprano sings jaw-dropping Handel aria from church pulpit > We’re also treated to some wonderful Handel at the garden party scene near the end, when a fanfare moment from the English composer’s Music for the Royal Fireworks is played out by a brass band, in celebration of the historic local findings. Sweeping strings and sounds from the natural world speak beautifully to the film’s British setting, with melancholy moments on the piano painting a picture of nostalgia for pre-war times and moments of wonder and discovery amplified by driving timpani lines. It embraces moments of silence and does not dominate, rather providing a melodious support for the film’s outstanding acting and script, and breathtaking Suffolk landscapes.
Gregory’s music for The Dig is soft and subtle.
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