Last night on Masterpiece Theatre they showed the new version of A Room With A View. And it felt very ordinary and somewhat dull. It felt like A Room With a View: the Baedeker version. I liked Lucy and Charlotte, but who can top Maggie Smith or Helena Bonham Carter? I also hated the liberties Andrew Davies took with the plot...ick! And, well George just didn't do it for me. I wished Andrew Davies would have let him use E.M. Forresters lines, they were much better than his own. Oh well, like I thought anything could ever take the place of my own beloved Merchant Ivory production.
Monday, April 14, 2008
A Room With A View with a Baedeker
Last night on Masterpiece Theatre they showed the new version of A Room With A View. And it felt very ordinary and somewhat dull. It felt like A Room With a View: the Baedeker version. I liked Lucy and Charlotte, but who can top Maggie Smith or Helena Bonham Carter? I also hated the liberties Andrew Davies took with the plot...ick! And, well George just didn't do it for me. I wished Andrew Davies would have let him use E.M. Forresters lines, they were much better than his own. Oh well, like I thought anything could ever take the place of my own beloved Merchant Ivory production.
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Exactly! Did not like it much, hated the end!
I agree with you. I had a hard time watching it because of George - and his bad teeth and weird accent. The chemistry wasn't there at all. I haven't read the book. Is all that flashback stuff true to the story? All it did was make me want to watch the other version - soon!
I guess Andrew Davies claims that he found a postscript adding that WWI stuff on. It's not in the book and I hated it!
Welll....of course they couldn't make it better than Merchant/Ivory!!! Actually, I haven't seen it yet since they didn't show it on our PBS station this weekend, but it's on tomorrow night. Thanks for the heads-up on what to expect.
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